Its stereo-speakers are located on the long left-hand side of the tablet, which makes it a little awkward with the tablet in a vertical position, but place it horizontally and the upwards (or downwards) facing speakers provide a more engaging and rich sound. Amazon Fire HD 10 (2017) review: Build quality and featuresĮlsewhere, Amazon has also added Dolby Atmos support and stereo speakers. Achieving only 9.5fps in GFXBench Manhattan 3.0, you cannot expect to play intensive games on this tablet. The tablet is still not great for gaming, though. By comparison, last year’s model scored 773 and 1,512 respectively.Īmazon’s battery life claims are also on the money, with the new tablet achieving 11hrs 22mins in our video rundown test, which is a 2hr 17min improvement over last year’s 9hrs 5mins. The 2017 HD 10 achieves 1,501 in single-core and 3,096 in the multi-core benchmark. Put through its paces, I found Amazon’s claims to be pretty accurate, with the new tablet achieving a much better Geekbench score. Inside, there are further improvements, with a new quad-core 1.8GHz MediaTek MT8173 processor that’s “30% more powerful” than its predecessor’s, double the RAM rising at 2GB, and better battery life, with an additional two hours over the previous model according to Amazon.Īmazon Fire 7 and Amazon Fire 7 Kids edition review Amazon Fire HD 10 (2017) review: Performance Thankfully, contrast is still decent and viewing angles are excellent. The screen still lacks a little bit of punch and richness, though, with only 84.1% of the sRGB covered. At 455cd/m2 versus last year’s 375cd/m2 peak brightness, the new HD 10 is easier to read under bright conditions.
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Amazon Fire HD 10 (2017) review: DisplayĪlexa isn’t the only improvement Amazon has made to its new budget tablet, however. The Amazon Fire HD 10’s IPS display is now slightly sharper, with a “better than Full HD” resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 where its predecessor’s was 1,280 x 800.
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Plus, as with the Fire TV Stick, the results are accompanied by a full-screen graphical data card.Īnd if you’re worried about the tablet’s always listening mode, it can be disabled and muted by tapping the option in the drop-down notification bar.
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Better still, the tablet doesn’t have to be unlocked to work, either although Alexa cannot unlock your device – you’ll still need to input your password or PIN for that.Īnd when it comes to what you can do with Alexa, it’s pretty much the same as it is with the Echo, or any other Alexa enabled device, for that matter. Say “Alexa… play some Daft Punk”, “Alexa… turn up my lights”, or Alexa… what’s the weather going to be like today?” and the tablet will work just like an Echo or Echo Dot without any kind of physical intervention.
This means you don’t have to be right next to the tablet for it to work. So how well does the new HD 10 work compared with an Amazon Echo? The first thing to note is that doesn’t have a far-field microphone array onboard, but nevertheless, in my tests, I found the tablet to pick up my voice accurately at over 10m. Price: £150, 32GB £180, 64GB (with lockscreen ads) add £10 to remove lockscreen adsĪmazon Fire HD 10 (2017) review: Hands-free Alexa MicroSD card slot (supports of up to 256GB) Quad-core 1.8GHz MediaTek MT8173 processor
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