Searching the web in Amazon’s Silk browser can be a little slow, as can loading large games. The response to your touch feels quicker too, while video apps handle just as well as much more powerful tablets, scrubbing through video with ease. Swiping around the system, loading and jumping between apps is all fairly smooth, if not quite rapid. Amazon says it’s 30% faster than the previous version, which doesn’t make it lightning fast but it feels a lot more responsive in operation. The Fire HD 10 gets a much-needed speed boost for 2019. Operating system: Fire OS 7 based on Android 9Ĭamera: 2MP rear and front-facing camerasĪdd up to 512GB of storage via microSD card - good for about a month’s worth of video. Storage: 32 or 64GB plus microSD card slot There’s a headphone socket or Bluetooth for connecting your own headphones. Stereo speakers in the top are fairly loud and clear, but lack bass and sound a little shrill when turned up to maximum. It won’t beat the screen on a top-end tablet, but the LCD display is crisp and bright enough with wide viewing angles to make the most of sharing movies and TV shows indoors. The full HD 10.1in screen has a 16:10 ratio that’s perfectly suited to watching video, meaning you get a bigger picture than you would on a similarly sized 10in screen with a squarer 4:3 ratio (such as an iPad). The plastic is hard wearing and while there’s some flex in the body, it feels like it can take a bit of rough and tumble just fine. A range of own-brand cases can put a cover over the screen that folds into an effective kickstand. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĪt 9.8mm thin, 504g in weight and 262mm long, the Fire HD 10 is fairly easy to hold on a couch or pack for the commute. Dropping the old microUSB for USB-C charging, which has become the standard for practically everything, is a step in the right direction.
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