AMAZON FIRE HD 10 2020 PLUS

AMAZON FIRE HD 10 2020 PLUS

Using a 15W charger shaved 30 minutes off that time, whether wired or wireless for the Plus model. The tablet charges really slowly, taking at least four hours with the included 9W power adaptor. The tablet will last a couple of days with mixed use or more than 12 hours streaming video over wifi, according to my testing – but of course, playing graphically intensive games significantly decreases battery life. A dedicated game mode automatically optimises the tablet for games, turning off hands-free Alexa and other background tasks when playing.īattery life is very good. That’s twice the amount of the previous-generation machine, which significantly improves multitasking. It has the same processor as the regular Fire HD 10, but with 1GB more of RAM for a total of 4GB. The Fire tablets are typically fast enough, but won’t beat more expensive rivals for raw performance. In other ways, the tablets are very similar, both in terms of battery performance and design feel, so you’ve not got much to decide between the two if you don’t care about how big the slate is.All the ports and buttons are in the right side of the tablet, while the microSD card slot for adding more storage space is in the bottom edge. That said, it’s a little more expensive, so you need to decide if the extra cost is worth the better screen. The deciding difference between the devices is in the screens, as the Amazon Fire HD 10 has a bigger and better display. When put head-to-head, though, you're not going to notice a difference between the Fire HD tablets, as the similarly low benchmark scores and RAM in both (1.5GB RAM for the Fire HD 8 and 2GB RAM in the Fire HD 10) handle tasks with very little speed difference.

The low processing power may come to a head when trying to play demanding games or run many apps at once, but if you’re buying an Amazon Fire HD tablet you probably don’t need the 10,000-plus scores of iPad Pros, so this won’t be as much of a problem. The latter is average for a low-end phone, but the former is rather poor by any standards. The Fire HD 8 comes with a Mediatek MT8163 processor, while the Fire HD 10 has the slightly better Mediatek MT8173 – when we put both tablets through benchmarking tests, the former returned a poor 1,677 while the latter came back with a 3,021 average. Neither of the tablets are processing powerhouses, with middling chipsets powering each. When we powered both up from 0% power to 100%, the Fire HD 8 took 6 hours while the Fire HD 10 took 5 hours, and both of which is incredibly slow compared to other tablets, likely thanks to the microUSB charging port. Similarly the charging rate was rather similar, that is to say both tablets charge painfully slowly. The tablets have different battery sizes – while the Amazon Fire HD 8 has a 3210mAh power pack, the Fire HD 10 boasts 3830mAh, however because of the different screen sizes, we found in effect the slates last around the same amount of time in day-to-day use. The size is basically the only difference though – both tablets have LCD screens, which is fairly low-end in terms of display tech. This difference is matched in resolution, as the Fire HD 8 is 800 x 1280 pixels with a pixel density of 189 pixels per inch (ppi) whereas the Fire HD 10 is 1920 x 1200 pixels and 224ppi – this means that not only is the Fire HD 10’s screen a little bigger, but it’s also better quality, so if having the best screen is important to you, you should check out this tablet first.Īmazon Fire HD 8. DisplayĪs we’ve previously mentioned, the titular difference between the tablets is the display size, as the Amazon Fire HD 8’s screen is eight inches across diagonally, while the Fire HD 10’s display is – you guessed it – a 10-inch panel.

One minor design difference is in the available colors – while the Fire HD 8 is available in black, yellow, red or blue, the Fire HD 10 doesn’t offer the yellow version, so if you absolutely need the brightest tablet, you’ll have to stick with the Fire HD 8. No, they’re not as specced-out as other tablets or even most phones, but that matches the price point. That’s basically the only design difference between the tablets though – both have plastic bodies with 3.5mm headphone jacks, 2MP cameras, and microUSB ports.

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