Amazon up to date its Fire HD 8 lineup final week and promptly put the pill on sale for Prime Day. The 2024 mannequin has extra RAM, a greater digital camera setup and built-in AI options to make it completely different from its predecessor. The machine, which is able to normally begin at $100 (with lock-screen advertisements), has been discounted to $55 for October Prime Day.
As its identify suggests, the brand new Hearth HD 8 has an 8-inch show with a 1280 x 800 decision (189 ppi). One of many 2024 mannequin’s huge upgrades is 3GB of RAM within the base storage tier (32B). In the meantime, the 64GB variant slides as much as 4GB of RAM. After all, this can be a price range pill, so these aren’t near barrier-breaking numbers. However that’s nonetheless 50 to one hundred pc larger than the 2GB of RAM within the 2022 mannequin.
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Save huge on Amazon’s just-announced Hearth HD 8 pill for 2024.
Amazon charges the Hearth HD 8 for as much as 13 hours of battery life. The pill’s rear digital camera is 5MP. (That’s the identical because the “Plus” model of its 2022 predecessor, however it’s larger than the 2MP within the outdated normal model.)
The tablets will embody some generative AI capabilities. Like Apple’s early take on AI in its 2024 updates, these embody a Writing Help characteristic that may jot out messages primarily based on prompts. It will possibly additionally summarize net pages, make grammar recommendations and tweak brevity.
There can even be two youngsters’ variations of the pill: the Fire HD 8 Kids and Fire HD 8 Kids Pro. As you’d count on from Amazon’s child-focused variants, these variations will embody a “kid-proof” case in Disney-branded designs (together with Pixar Vehicles, Disney Princess or Marvel Avengers). Additionally they include a subscription to Amazon Kids+, the corporate’s content material supply service (together with cellular video games!) for the kiddos.
The Hearth HD 8 is available now from Amazon, beginning at $55 for Prime Day (normally $100). The Fire HD 8 Kids pill usually begins at $140 however is on sale for $70 for Prime Day.
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