Amazon updated the Fire HD 10 tablet last year, but
at $230 for an HD screen it wasn’t so hot. But how does US$ 150 for a FullHD
screen sound? With double the storage to boot! Yes, the All-New Kindle Fire HD
10 tablets are decidedly more attractive and their price is well into “impulse
buy” territory.
The new screen has an IPS panel that measures 10.1”
with 1,920 x 1,200px resolution (224ppi). That’s up from 1,280 x 800px, which
didn’t really cut it for a 10” tablet. The Dolby Atmos stereo speakers are
still on board.
Amazon doubled the RAM and storage too. You get 2GB
of RAM - not much admittedly but better than the 1GB you got last year. And
storage starts at 32GB (with a 64GB option), but there’s a microSD card slot as
well. The quad-core processor is the one thing that did not get upgraded though
(it has two big 1.8GHz cores and two small ones).
The tablet's battery is good for up to 10 hours of
use at a time and Amazon boasts that it’s “more durable than the iPad Pro
10.5”. And, of course, Alexa comes built in, which is still the leading digital
assistant (sorry, Siri).
