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  • 10.1" 1080p full HD display; 32 or 64 GB of internal storage (add up to 512 GB with microSD)
  • Now 30% faster thanks to the new 2.0 GHz octa-core processor and 2 GB of RAM
  • Longer battery lifeUp to 12 hours of reading, browsing the web, watching video, and listening to music
  • Hands-free with Alexa, including on/off toggle

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Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GB Offer Type: Lockscreen Ad-Supported Color: White Style: Fire HD 10
The os was for a 7" 7th Generation. Replacement one is 9th generation on a 10" screen with updated programs. Love it. So much better than first one. Able to see in great streaming quality with dual speakers on side or bottom in Show Mode. Speakers can be low or very high. Google Apps can now be loaded unto Kindle. I love watching movies late at night on my teeny tv in bed. I can also chromecast it to tv. I was a MacPro laptop only person for years as I've only had need for working on spread sheets at work. From 2011 I bought a Samsung Gallery 8" Nook as all I wanted it for was to read BOD. I was able to put my kindle app on it & so I had my large library of books to choose from. After 9 years of my Nook I decided to upgrade to a Kindle Fire. I travel often and wanted the capability of using truck stop & hotels wife's to watch my own movies on Amazon Prime. I've been a member of Prime for a couple of years now and enjoy Chromecasting movies to my TV. Watching on my Samsung Cellphone I enjoy the movies but the screen is so small I wanted a larger screen to use. So with my Fire HD 10 I'm able to do that. On new replacement Fire 10, I have had NO problems starting it up. Yesterday it updated and I now only have 3 columns to search for things. That's fine. I bought it mostly for my Kindle Library so during pandemic I could start reading some of my newer books. I downloaded the apk app so I could download my apps from Google Play store. You can get what you need to do this easily with the website Getjar. They can teach you how to add non Amazon Apps onto your Kindle Fire without difficulties. I'm also an Amazon Shopper for quite some time now. For years I've played games that pay you for visiting their websites. I also do health surveys and clinical trials that pay in free gift cards. When I build up my.points over $50 worth I use the money for both dog & human food. During pandemic I've spent about $500?grocery shopping on Amazon to avoid non masked non distancing people in stores. I love the products I buy and have a wide variety of food to choose from. With new Fire 10 my husband is able to increase font size to look at motorcycle parts to order. We get parts from Amazon cheaper than from Ebay and same quality as Ebay or JP Cycle. Until I have cataracts removed I like to be able also to increase my font size so I don't need my glasses and change the color tone of the pages. I prefer the black background with the white lettering, but yellow lettering gives it a softer look. Now on my lock screen. I don't lock it. We have no grandkids with us anymore to go into porn like we used to. So I prefer being able to just slide up the ad and go directly into my Kindle. When turning on tablet tou have 2 choices. If it starts in Amazon, click the start button again and it will start in Kindle Fire. It works the other way around also. Kindle main page. 3 columns 1st). FOR YOU Today's weather. Recent Apps. Continue is where you'll find your activities. Mine have Amazon movies I've recently watched on Prime TV plus my new book waiting for me to read. Next comes suggestions for new apps based on the ones I enjoy. News Videos by the News apo from different News Stations. Plus many more sections that Amazon knows my preferences of. I don't mind their suggestions. They even suggest new Medical Apps for me to use in teaching and new Motorcycle Parts for our bikes. In settings you decide what you want seen on your screens, and Amazon will just make suggestions IF you want them too. 2nd). HOME SCREEN Top of screen are my new items. Below are all of my apps saved from Amazon Cloud. The Apps Settings & Camera I've moved to top of page so I could touch them without searching for them. I have collections set up. Utilities are blended together from Amazon. This includes Weather, Clock, Calendar, Contacts, Maps, Calculator, Help, Docs, & Offers. These are all from Amazon. I prefer the Weather Channel app so I disabled the suggested app. You just hold down an app tou don't want on your screen and in top right corner click UNINSTALL. Very simple. The app will go into your sett6area of Apps. It's basically a Library of all apps you own. Downloaded or not. 3rd). Last column is LIBRARY. Stored here are all of my Collections starting with Kindle Books & Magazines. Each line going downward is different. APPS. KEEP MY NOTES is an app you can use your finger to write notes, letters, reminders and print out. Much better for classes or when you need to remember something and have no pen or paper handy. INKredible is another app that let's you write with your finger as well. Amazon now has some of same apps Google Play Store has so check out their app store first. YOUR MOVIE & TV APPS. Free is for me. I love finding free apps for movies or tv. My favorite night binges like Grey's Anatomy are not free on Prime, but are free on Hulu. Next line-APPS IN THE CLOUD. Fire TV is listed first. I dont use it as I'm already hooked into Chromecast. But it does the exact same thing. Here's where you can store all of your social networking apps for download. Or try some of the ones suggested by Amazon. GAMES. Whatever games you add goes here. If your games are connected to FB, you can still reconnect them to save your points on Fire. SILK BROWSER. It's the Amazon preferred app. I use it because I can pin my favorite websites to it. Instead of adding different browsers, just save to Silks Browser of Favorites and click on the website you want to go to or the browser you want to visit. I use Microsoft Bing to search as I get points for 50 searches daily=250 points. PRIME VIDEO. My saved to watchlist videos are listed here. AUDIBLE. I'm not much of a book listener, but I have 1 free Audible book listed to try. Next-Amazon News App. You can choose which broadcast news stations or newspapers you want to find news on. You get fresh news by the minute to hours. AMAZON MUSIC. As a Prime Member I get free music. So my last line is all of the musicians, and radio stations I choose to listen too. At bottom of page is the Customize button. Click on that, then you can drag the above lines into different orders. In Settings you can change your wallpaper for the background. Font size. Which will also change size of your icons. Display brightness can be fixed in setting as well as how long monitor stays on before closing. At top of screen is pull down notifications. Above that you can adjust brightness, wifi, check weather or other msgs like updates to apps or OS. Above notifications your wifi set6will tell you what your connection is, Bluetooth connections, and microphone. ALEXA will answer you if you enable her. Say "Alexa" and she can help you do research or find something or answer simple questions. If you turn Fire sideways it turns into show mode. I'm very happy with my replacement Fire HD 10. And I am tech savvy. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2020 by Ruthi
A great general use tablet
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GB Offer Type: Lockscreen Ad-Supported Color: Twilight Blue Style: Fire HD 10
I picked up the 64 GB blue version on Prime Day. I was able to get the matching cover https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RR6HQKX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and with tax paid around what the 32GB with no cover usually costs. This super aggressive pricing is a huge factor in favor of the Fire tablets, and Amazon reliably discounts all of its self branded products for Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. Yes any Apple tablet is going to beat any Fire tablet or similarly priced Android product in every single way. If your budget is in Apple's price range you really should buy one because they are great and you will be very happy with it. If you are someone that thinks those prices are too high for steaming a movie once in a while or reading a book now and then (and you are correct), then this Fire 10 tablet might be the right choice for you. Android tablets in this price range aren't going to set any performance records, and users accustomed to nearly instantaneous responses from every tap on their (overpriced and overpowered) smart phone may notice quite a bit of lag when using a tablet like this. Let me assure you that ALL tablets in this price range (and many that cost a whole lot more than this) are going to seem slow compared to the overwhelming number of smart phones people have snapped up the last few years. Be prepared for comparatively sluggish task switching, and for apps to open noticeably more slowly. That doesn't mean they won't run, but they aren't going to pop open like they do on your phone that probably cost many multiples of times more than this. I've found that apps...once open...work exactly as expected without issues. The HD screen is much better than other inexpensive tablet I've owned. Its nice and bright, and video plays very smoothly. Heavy book readers truly should go for a Paperwhite Kindle model over anything with a backlight, but the text on this screen is very good for more casual reading, web sites, the occasional book, etc. Viewing angles are generous, making it legible from a variety of angles and distances that works good even in Show mode. The biggest negative is that there is still a lot of bezel. I'd expect some effort at device shrinking, including a smaller bezel, in the next iteration if Amazon expects these devices to remain relevant. The sound from the tiny speakers are fine for Alexa responses or something like an audible book, but for music or movies you are going to want an external speaker or headphones. I like to keep bluetooth off for battery life, so the physical headphone jack is a big plus to me. I streamed a few TV show episodes, about 1/3 of a movie (which I had started on my Firestick and was able to resume on my Fire tablet), read a few magazines and news articles, streamed music to an external speaker, and played a few different games while trying out the tablet. I still had 28% battery life left when I plugged it in to try out Show mode. The battery drains as you would expect with any device: quite a bit faster playing games and streaming video than when playing music or reading. Overall, the estimated time Amazon gives appears to be on the optimistic end of what people have reported from real testing, and I didn't see anything to make me think its unfair. The bottom line is most people are going to get a normal day's mixed use out of it without much trouble. Alexa works like you expect, with the added benefit of it being portable. One feature I really like is being able to get double duty out of it as a Show device while charging. That matching cover helps here because I can prop it up or grab it on the go very quickly. The cameras are pretty terrible though, so expect functional but not good video calling and only if you have good lighting. Improving the front camera would be a good upgrade for the next model, and I'd personally trade the virtually useless rear camera for a single, good quality front one. Amazon's unapologetically self serving UI gets a lot of criticism, but the truth is a lot of people use Amazon services and if you are one of them the Fire 10 makes it exceptionally simple to access all of it. If there are apps not in Amazon's store you want to use.. well, let's just say I had the play store installed, Chrome synced, and a movie playing on HBO Max in less than 10 minutes following simple instructions I found with the easiest search terms in you can think of in Google. If you want to strip it down to a more stock Android launcher you can do that too. Seriously, don't worry about Amazon's store or app selection. Regarding storage, I opted for the 64GB version mostly because of shipping availability and I didn't want to wait. The 32GB version is an amazing product and is usually the better value of the two options. Regardless of which one you get, I recommend you add an SD card formatted as external storage NOT as internal memory. The reason is that no tablet is going to access an inserted card as fast as it can its internal memory, and the last thing you want to do is make this tablet any slower. The Fire should automatically select all the right file types (music, photos, etc.) to save to the card so you can save the internal space for your apps. TLDR: The 2019 Fire 10 is a good product made great when you can get it at one of Amazon's frequently offered sale prices. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2020 by R. B. Richardson
The tablet of my dreams? Mmmmm...could be...
Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GB Offer Type: Lockscreen Ad-Supported Color: Plum Style: Fire HD 10
All right. Another review on the Fire HD 10. I can hear you sighing. But see, I take these things seriously. If you like, you could refer back to my review on the 7” Fire tablet I received as a Christmas gift many years ago. I sing its praises here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2E0EUZDHBMJTQ?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp and the fact is, I am still crooning that tune. Why not? It’s still going strong and is getting a lot of use all these years later, mainly as an MP3 and podcast player…two things at which it is very, very good. It also logs my backyard bird sightings. But. All these years later, perhaps it was high time that I get myself a larger tablet for entertainment use. The Fire had been replaced in that regard by an 8” Samsung Tab E I’d been given by my job, but each time my wife and son would see me using it, watching a movie or whatnot and squinting at it, they’d mutter, “Why don’t you just get yourself an iPad?” Well, the cost, mainly. That and the fact that I am rather thoroughly vested in the Amazon world. So…why not a Fire HD 10? Why not indeed? It’s just been through a makeover, with a bigger, brighter screen and a faster processor. More colors, even. And of course the price is right, half that and then some of a similarly sized iPad…which can’t even expand its storage, something Fire has been able to do for many, many moons. So upon receiving our tax refund, I pushed the button, Max, and here’s my first week impressions. IT’S FAST. Yup. Sure is. “Octacore” indeed! There’s no comparing it to its predecessors; it’s on a different level entirely. No, it doesn’t anticipate my every desire, but then it doesn’t hesitate when I ask it to do something…and it’s been able to handle everything I’ve asked of it. The upgraded wifi helps in this regard too. IT HOLDS A WHOLE LOTTA STUFF. The storage space on even the lower end model…32 GB as opposed to 8 on my original 7” Fire is—(sigh)—wonderful, as is the ability to expand it to as much as 512 GB. Half a T! Whoa. I don’t anticipate ever needing that much space, but I guess you never know. OH, THAT SCREEN! Bright. Vivid. I dare say, true HD on a tablet. No, it’s not the “retina” display one finds on an iPad, but it’s darned close. Morning cartoons on MeTV will never look the same. And the IndyCar season begins this weekend… IT SOUNDS DANDY. Sure, the speakers are still tiny, but they’re not tinny anymore. The fact is, with the HD 10 the onboard sound is good enough that I don’t feel inclined to reach for a pair of headphones every time I want to play something. There’s real stereo at work here, and it sounds good. THE OS WORKS. No, it’s not out-and-out Android, but it is based on a newer version of Android (Pie) than the Bellini Fire OS, and it just works. Sure, you do have to work a bit to get Google Play on it, but it took me less than ten minutes to get ‘r’ done, and I bet you could do it quicker. There’s instructions for this process available everywhere. USB C? GEE! Yup. USB C is onboard, which means faster charging and transfer should you need to link it to your personal mothership. It’s also easier to connect in the dark, being as there is no “right side up” with C. It’s a welcome change. Also, the included 9 watt charger does its job that much quicker, and if that’s still not quick enough for you, why, there’s a 15 watt model available. AND SPEAKING OF THE BATTERY…it lasts longer. A LOT longer. Go on, use it all day! Chances are you won’t fully deplete it. Amazon claims 12 hours, and while I can’t verify that yet, I don’t have any trouble believing it. THE CAMERAS STILL SUCK. But…they serve their purpose. I figure I’ll use them for the occasional Zoom call. Yes, you CAN use Zoom…and you can even get it from Amazon’s own limited App Store. Oh, and yes, I do take pictures of my cat. DO YOU NEED TO HAVE PRIME TO MAKE THIS WORTHWHILE? I actually asked this in my review of the Fire 7, and the answer is, you don’t HAVE to have it, but it sure is nice. Being as YouTube is readily available via Google Play there are countless hours of viewing options…but consider this: add the cost of a new HD 10 and a year of Prime and it’s still less than the cost of an iPad. In fact, you can probably tack on the cost of one of the sharp Amazon-branded covers and STILL come in cheaper than the Apple product! SO…IS IT WORTH IT? After considering all the above, do you really need to ask? Plunk down the hard-earned and grab you one. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2021 by James David Reyome
Sharp HD Screen But Big Glare
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GB Offer Type: Lockscreen Ad-Supported Color: Twilight Blue Style: Fire HD 10
My spouse bought this device for me about 7 months ago. I wanted to use it in all environments before I submitted a review. 1. SCREEN - Screen is fantastic. Everything about the graphics presentation is great. Games play well. Video rendering is smooth and uneventful (in a good way). Prime/Netflix/YouTube/etc all decode and play videos well. The bad part about this fantastic resolution is, IMO, that in order to get such a sharp looking image, they used a highly reflective "glossy" screen glass. In normal environments, this is not a problem. However, in high glare places or even in a garage on a bright day, watching anything on this tablet gets frustrating. I have to position the screen "just so" in order to NOT see my smiling face reflecting back at me while I try to watch HBO Max! This, I suppose, can be solved by getting a glare reducing screen protector. But, why should I have too? Another issue is that the screen brightness will suddenly dim to a point where I cannot see the screen and I have to manually brighten the screen. This happens a lot and in different types of environments. I can be sitting in bed watching YouTube TV for 30 minutes and then, all of a sudden, the screen brightness will dim and then come back up to where it was, even though I did not change any lighting in the room. 2. BATTERY - Battery life, like all Fire tablets, is average. Better than previous Fire devices (I also have a Fire 7) but not good enough for a single day of continuous use. Charges quickly to a useful percentage. Hint: do not let it get below 20-25% of a charge. It will get warm and seems to struggle. BY FAR, the best item for battery life are the Kindle reading devices; but, you would expect that since they are not rendering graphics! 3. NETWORK/BLUETOOTH - Bluetooth pairing and use is frustrating at times. Network connections are easy and saving the Wi-Fi password helps save time when I connect another Amazon device. Pairing with BT headphones is easy enough. However, for some reason, it keeps dropping the BT connection and will not reconnect unless I disable BT altogether, reenable and then re-pair the headphones. I really believe that this may be a firmware issue on the tablet because my BT headphones stay connected on other devices. 4. EASE OF USE - I use this device for many different things. Video streaming works but has glaring issues. Game playing is good and responsive. Surfing is easy enough and seems to render well. All this points me to this: since this is an Android device, you need to make sure you download the Google Play Store app. From there you can download apps you can use. Do not try to use the Amazon App Store that comes preloaded. From the Play Store I was able to download Chrome and other apps that I can use. Suggestions: A. Work on fixing the screen glare without forcing the owner to buy a separate non-glare screen protector or, better yet, include a matte protector in the package and give the purchaser the option of using it or not. B. Include the Google Play Store in your preloaded app package. C. Update your OS firmware to fix the BT dropping issue D. Like you have for network, BT, AP, etc., provide a quick-switch on the settings pull-down to turn off & on Adaptive Brightness. It is really needed instead of having to dig into the battery>display settings. Final Review: The Fire 10" (9th gen.) is a great piece of hardware. But, like all tech items, there are always things that can be "fixed". I would easily recommend it over the overpriced Apple iPads or other tablet devices (i.e. Surface). Now, off to watch The Expanse on Prime ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021 by Noleman84
Why did I wait so long?
Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GB Offer Type: Lockscreen Ad-Supported Color: Black Style: Fire HD 10
I needed a small tablet for quick browsing, quick access to Amazon photos and music. I never had any intentions of using this for any productivity or gaming, therefore something basic would be sufficient as well as not wanting to break the bank on something I'll only occasionally use. Initially I was going to get one of the Samsung models (Tab A), but their low end models appear to be intentionally handicapped. I recently purchased an 8" Fire HD as a gift for Christmas and thought it worked fairly well after I set it up, and thought perhaps I'd get one for myself. But the day I went to make a purchase, the Fire HD 10 was on sale ($109 I think) so I decided the bigger screen would work better if I decided to watch Prime Movies... I am glad I did. The display while it's not a Retna is very clear and bright. The processor is very adequate for my purposes. I have not had any problems with the touchscreen responsiveness or battery life. Access to the google Play store can be remedied by installing it... just Google Play store on Fire HD and you'll find several blogs, articles and YouTube videos with step by step instructions on where to find and how to install the necessary files. Once complete, it works like a charm. If you don't need it, the Amazon store has a decent selection of Apps and the included browser works just fine. I opted for the one with the AD's on the lock-screen. Initially I was going to pay for the version without them, but after using the 8 inch version, they didn't seem to be a bother or be a drain on the battery life. Why not save a few bucks? You simply unlock your screen as you normally would and the AD's don't interfere with the function at all, nor will you accidentally click on them like the annoying AD's that pop up in Apps on your cell phone. Save a few bucks, get the one with the AD's, use that money to buy a case (it doesn't come with one and you will definitely need a case). Since making this purchase I have not charged it more than twice (although I don't use it daily) the standby time is great and even when I use it for long periods of time, the battery still didn't drain quickly or go below 53%. Standby lasts at least a week or longer. Yes, the housing is made of ABS plastic, but it doesn't feel or look cheap. The only issue I have with it so far is the placement of the on-screen button being on the screen vs. being placed below the view-able screen area (I'll get used to it eventually). The layout is setup just like a cell phone, power button on the right side, volume on the left and the onscreen button accordingly, otherwise this is a great tablet for anyone who is not using a ton of Apps that require a lot of processing power or RAM. The USB3 port makes this one a winner and as low-end tablets go, I would not recommend any other brand, the new Amazon Fire HD 8 or 10 are definitely a competitive products and the ones to get. The 8 inch fits comfortably in your hand and the screen size is also adequate, but for a little more screen for viewing movies the 10 inch is better. I highly recommend either model, as long as you know it's limitations. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2020 by Jazzman
This is perfect for comics
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GB Offer Type: Lockscreen Ad-Supported Color: Twilight Blue Style: Fire HD 10
I purchased this tablet along with a new Ipad Air for my vast comic book collection. I must say that comparing the two the Fire tablet wins out. Though the Kindle fire only comes with a 64gb drive it is expandable with a micro sd chip capability that will expand it up to 1TB. I opted for the 512GB sd card and was able to easily transfer all my comic book files saved on my laptop onto the sd card then insert it and lovingly gaze at my vast array of comics. I have about 700 graphic novels and they all fit on the sd card with more than enough room to store another 700 or so. The screen is the perfect size for viewing comics and the images come out looking beautiful. I find there is no lag time in reading the comics what with loading up the images and what not. The only other thing I use the tablet for is to do random google searches with the google app. I cant attest to video watching or game playing as those are not things I am utilizing this for. I have a kindle oasis for my regular books so I am not sure how this will work with regular books. I didnt want to use this for regular book reading as this has blue light and since I do the bulk of my reading before bed I did not want that blue light distraction (if that even is a thing). The only downside of this compared to the ipad air is that the kindle with the case is alot heavier than the ipad air. Speaking on the ipad air I will say I have not yet figured out how to transfer my cbr files onto it. Apple sure doesnt make it easy to do this. I researched and researched and tried a couple of different ways that werent working out for me but with the Fire it was a breeze. Plus I cant complain that between the cost of the fire package with the case, the sd card and the sd card adapter it cost me a total of 340 dollars and I have the 64gb drive and the 512gb sd card for storage whereas the ipad air with the 256gb drive which is not expandable cost me 722 dollars. So overall, in my opinion, the Fire wins out as the superior comic book reader. And just as a side note I did not have to convert my comics from cbr to mobi to be read on the Fire. I just use the Perfect Viewer comic app that is available in the app store and it displays all my comics beautifully in a bookshelf type of format and reads the cbr file without conversion. Life is beautiful!!!! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021 by Denise
Your money's worth and a LOT more...
Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GB Offer Type: Lockscreen Ad-Supported Color: Black Style: Fire HD 10
I'm not the typical user of a tablet; not a gamer, do all my computing at home on a desktop, don't do social media, don't even have a smartphone. I've worn out one Kindle E-reader and am hard at work on the second. I would quite probably have let the tablet scene pass me by, except that I acquired (in 2013) one of the early Fire tablets (HD7) as a premium gift for buying a treadmill from Yowza Fitness. In a word, I loved it; book and magazine illustrations in Hi-def color was one of its most enjoyable features to me at the time. It was a little underpowered for video, though it would stream non-HD content fair-to-middling and play just about any downloaded video just fine, HD or not. So I used and enjoyed it for six years, until I caught wind of the soon-to-be-released Amazon Fire Tablet HD10; there was a lot being said about it, most of it quite positive, enough so that I took the plunge and invested a little less than 250 dollars (tablet, case and heavily-discounted SD memory card). I can't speak for others, only for myself, but I think I got a heck of a good deal. The tablet is beautifully made and has a good solid heft; the case is a perfect match for it. The designers and manufacturer couldn't have improved on it; for looks, I think they came up with a winner. The colors, graphics, video definition (it also streams HD just fine!) are all top of the line. It's a bit more complicated than the other one, but still easily learned. It comes with a fairly large number of Apps preinstalled, and that aren't designed to be removed; I don't mind that too much since there's only a very few that I wouldn't use at all, and I've got LOTS of storage space. But it is kind of annoying that I can't "hide" the icons that fill up the Home screen like I can do on my old desk-top Acer running Win 10. And while I have nothing against it, I also have no real use for or interest in the Alexa feature; its home-screen icon is four times the size of all the others, and constantly exhorts me to tell Alexa to do something. But those are minor details and take nothing at all away from my overall positive view of this exceptionally fine example of precision electronics. And the price! A genuine bargain. Thanks very much for a fine product and letting me say a few words about it. UPDATE TO ORIGINAL REVIEW January 26, 2021: I've had this tablet for just over 14 months, and have used & enjoyed it just about every day of those 14 months. I successfully installed Google Play Store shortly after I bought the tablet, specifically to get Google Chrome which greatly enhanced its value & utility. I was able to watch HD videos on YouTube, TV shows & movies on Amazon Prime, all without any buffering. I regularly read books & magazines in stunning color on the nice large 10-inch screen using the Libby App. In short, I was very happy indeed with my tablet. Which is why I was both surprised and disappointed when it suddenly and inexplicably stopped working. I'd been reading a library book off and on the past few days (I've read dozens on the tablet) and today I stopped reading to have supper; just closed the case like I've done from the beginning as it just puts the tablet to sleep. When I'm ready to use it again I just open the case and the advert screen comes on first; I just swipe upwards and get back to the exact page of my book that I was reading, or the home screen if I closed the app before putting the tablet to sleep. After supper today, when I opened the case, I was met with a blank screen, like I'd completely powered down (I hadn't). Pressing the on/off switch did nothing; pressing and holding for a slow count of 10 was the same. Plugging it in to the AC Charger should have within a few seconds rebooted the tablet; several times I've read or watched videos to the point where I ran out of juice and the tablet says "powering down" and turns itself off, but plugging it into the AC turns it right back on again, showing the charging symbol doing it job. The tablet was not low on battery power this time; when I closed the case to go eat supper the battery icon in the upper right corner read 48%; it should not have turned completely off, it should have just gone to sleep like it always has. Even after leaving it on the AC Charger for >2 hours, pressing the on/off switch did nothing; the tablet is completely dead, and I cannot figure out why; it was working flawlessly. What I said in my original view about its being an "exceptionally fine example of precision electronics" still holds. This is a great tablet; I just had bad luck with mine. Update to the Update: Jan31, 2022; Belive it or not, this same tablet came mysteriously back to life after sitting in a box from late January of 2021 to early October of 2021, i.e., about 9 months. I don't know why I pressed the power button; I was making room on the shelf with the intent to dispose of stuff no longer needed, and I guess I just did it because it still looked like new and I was on the verge of dropping it in the trash barrel. I was surprised, to say the least. It booted up like I'd been using it the day before, no errors, every app in place and functioning normally; all the Google Playstore stuff (including the Google Chrome browser). I remember it was quite an involved action to get Google Play installed. Anyway, I was both pleased and skeptical, which is why I didn't immediately go online and update my review back then; I wanted to wait & see, so to speak. It worked fine up until today, when I closed the case which put it to sleep; came back a couple of hours later, opened the case and it was dead as a hammer, precisely a repeat of what happened about this same time last year. Well, I'm still not gonna trash it; maybe I'll wait six months or so and try booting it up again; you never know...my basic opinion of the Amazon Fire HD10 remains unchanged; back when this tablet first went dead and got put in a box on the shelf, I'd immediately ordered a replacement which continues to work perfectly, and in fact bought the 2021 edition to stay by my easy chair in the living room to read and do email while the other is devoted now for strictly reading in my den and / or bedroom. Neither has been altered to include Google Play, which I'd always half-suspected might have contributed to this particular tablet's breakdown (twice!). I still highly recommend the Amazon Fire HD10 tablet to one and all. Thanks for letting me say what's now been a whole lotta words about it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2019 by xgi93
After Three Years of Use:
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GB Offer Type: Lockscreen Ad-Supported Color: Plum Style: Fire HD 10
Performance in DEC of 2022 rivals that of today's (2022) 64/4 GB Galaxy Tab 7 lite - with the 64/2 GB 9th gen Fire 10HD coming out slightly better despite having half the system ram and more screen area to manage (I owe this to the fact that Fire OS 7.x.x is actually a version of Android 9 Amazon currently maintains in-house while the Samsung Galaxy is trying to push the added baggage that comes with Android 12 - more overhead.) WIFI reception is superior to all tablets I've worked with equalled only by an iPad. So in terms of security patches to the OS, battery life, and WIFI reception - the iPad or the Amazon fire tablets are in my opinion the only way to go. A word about security patches: in my opinion of all Android devices Samsung is the best, but they use a tiered approach - top line models get fairly timely security updates (I'm not talking about Google APP store updates, I'm talking about OS system updates which only the tablet maker can provide). Entry and mid level Samsung devices get these as little as twice a year (which technically honors their pledge to support their devices for four years but in reality ... sucks!). I have a $600 Galaxy S5E I bought the same time I bought this $200 9th generation Kindle Fire 10HD. I'm still waiting for Samsung to patch a bluetooth issue the Android Open Source Project announced publically as "severe" four months ago. Amazon patched it the moment the security issue was announced ... Four months later Samsung is still dragging their feet and I can't use Bluetooth head phones because of it or any headphone for that matter because the $600 Samsung Galaxy didn't come with a headphone jack which is kinda surprising since not only did Amazon include a headphone jack on the $200 2019 model, but Amazon includes a headphone jack on the latest 2021 11th generation model. Its performance is rivals the latest 11th generation Kindle Fire 10 Plus - I am comparing the 64GB versions of both, the first having 2GB of system RAM vs 4GB of the enhanced Plus version. I recently setup 2 of the 11th generation Fire 10 HD Plus models I got for family as gifts. I have one of those next to this one (I have a 9th gen and an 11th gen Plus side by side) actual viewing area is the same. There is more non-touch-sensitive safety area on the sides of the 9th gen in landscape orientation and the 11th gen has more finger safe area in portrait. But, both have adequate finger safe areas on all sides so you can safely pick this thing up without triggering half a dozen apps. I like the 9th gen better than the 11th by only marginal differences in ergonomics. Performance gains of the 11th gen Plus (with its additional 2GB of system ram) were huge at first, but then I did a factory reset of the 9th gen and noticed not only did it set up just as fast as (maybe even faster than) the 11th gen, but reinstalling the apps was a breeze and performance differences between them all but vanished (just don't "long press" the back space button on either one). EDIT ============================= This part of the review is being written on the latest 11th gen 2021 release Fire 10HD Plus with 4GB system ram and 64GB of internal storage. The 9th generation of this model currently being reviewed is sitting next to it linked to the same account, same router (home network), with the same apps installed. Both having been wiped and set up from scratch recently: GET THIS: The 9th generation is one quarter of a second faster than the 11th generation in app loads, and menu selections. Just to test cache loads I closed and reopened the same app with no other apps in memory four times each. The difference is only noticable by side. The 11th gen handles this text box much better; but even with the newest model you still have to be careful with the backspace/delete button or you'll loose more than you intended to delete because both register deletes faster than the OS can perform them, and they store up. The 11th gen handles the screen better: When I drag the map in the MyRadar app around with my finger the 2d scrolling is smooth and responsive with the 11 gen Plus model - the 9th begins to stutter as you zoom (but this is so minor). Now, if I tried to edit a 1000 page spread sheet while listening to Spotify running in the background during a unique collision with an untimely app store update the added 2 GB system ram would make a huge difference. I can tell you that 3 years later due to Amazon's diligence in keeping up with their version of the OS, Going with Amazon's Fire tablet proved to be a better decision than my purchase of a $600 Samsung Galaxy Tab S5E at the same time. END OF EDIT WITH 11th generation Fire 10HD Plus 64GB 2021 version.======================== If I were looking to spend less than $300 on a tablet I would prefer a Fire 10 HD mainly because I would feel more secure that the OS itself is not leaking camera, microphone, and data information due to outright negligence on Amazon's part. A word about Fire OS, and why I'm sold on it. Unlike Android tablets, Amazon historically runs a modified and well maintained older version of Android than competing Android devices for performance reasons. Does anyone remember running Windows XP on a desktop designed for Vista? That same machine ran XP four times faster than Windows Vista. So HP and Dell had to stop shipping desktops with XP when Microsoft stopped patching security issues and were forced to ship the much slower Vista (the performance gains of the latest hardware were lost to the added baggage of the latest OS making the newer machines slower than the older). BUT ... What if Dell had acquired the rights to XP and maintained the security patches themselves calling it Dell OS. Well, that's exactly what Amazon does with Android. So, Fire OS 8.x.x.x is actually Android 11 and Fire OS 7.x.x.x is actually Android 9 as I have learned. Running older but well maintained versions of Android just makes sense. Which one of us would use Windows 10 or 11 if we could get a still maintained version of Windows XP? The performance is just going to be better. People talk about converting Fire Tablets into Android tablets by hacking them. I have a $600 Samsung Galaxy I wish I could hack and convert into a Fire OS tablet because I percieve that Samsung is sloppy if not purposely negligent. As a side bar item: If you hack a Kindle with Fire OS 7.x.x.x to side load Google Play store, you will only be able to get Android 9 versions of apps which are no longer maintained. Once Fire OS 8.x.x.x is out, hacking it at best will give you apps maintained up to Android 11 compatible source code - which will fall out of maintenance as Android moves on to later generations. The most significant point I want to make in this review is that Amazon has demonstrated consistently over time that their tablets hold up well, and that they continue to commit to your Fire tablet's system firmware with timely updates long after the purchase. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2022 by Grass roots
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