Amazon is phasing out Fire HD tablets, but not without some big discounts first

The Fire HD 10 offers a sharper, larger surface than its smaller siblings. | Image: Amazon

Amazon precocious announced it’s phasing out its Fire HD tablets successful favour of much pricier Alexa Tablets. While the days of getting an affordable, but bully tablet from Amazon look to beryllium coming to an end, you tin inactive get a fantastic woody connected the ad-supported Amazon Fire HD 10. It has dropped to a caller debased of $72.99 ($82 off) astatine Amazon. While it’s acold from the fastest tablet retired there, it’s a coagulated enactment for watching movies, speechmaking books, oregon browsing the web. And, it’ll proceed to get information updates.

Amazon Fire HD 10 (2023)

Where to Buy:

• $139.99 $72.99 astatine Amazon (32GB, with ads)

The Fire HD 10 is 1 of the nicer models successful Amazon’s budget-friendly Fire lineup, and astatine its existent price, is really somewhat cheaper than the Fire HD 8. The Fire HD 10 offers a spacious, sharper 10.1-inch 1080p show that makes watching shows and speechmaking much enjoyable than connected the Fire HD 8’s smaller, lower-res screen. It besides offers amended front-facing cameras for video calls and up to 13 hours of artillery life, truthful you don’t request to interest astir it dying during agelong roadworthy trips oregon flights.

If the 32GB of built-in retention isn’t enough, there’s a microSD paper slot for expanding it up to 1TB, truthful you tin download much apps, movies, shows, and books for offline use. Plus, Amazon’s tablet has a 3.5mm headphone jack — thing you won’t find connected newer iPads. If you’re truly into astute assistants, the Fire HD 10 supports Alexa Plus, which Prime members tin entree for free. Amazon’s upgraded AI adjunct tin grip much analyzable requests and is peculiarly utile for managing your astute home, though we’ve had mixed results with different tasks.

You whitethorn beryllium alert that the Fire HD 10 runs Amazon’s Fire OS alternatively than Android (the caller Alexa Tablets enactment Google Play Store retired of the box). However, it’s possible to sideload Android apps onto it with comparative ease, though support successful caput that the Fire HD 10’s low-end specs mightiness mean that your favourite Android apps and games mightiness not tally each that well.