Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 Gets 50 Percent More RAM At A 40 Percent Price; Takes On iPad Mini 4 Head On

Amazon just announced the 2.0 version of last year's Fire HD 8. They claim that the brand new Fire HD 8 tablet comes with improved features. The Kindle Fire HD 8 still looks the same as the one released last year, so what's really new with it?

Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 8 Tablet Gets A New Assistant

NY Times reports, Amazon Echo's cloud-based intelligent digital personal assistant, Alexa, goes mobile as the newest update to come in the Kindle Fire HD 8 will include Alexa. With the Fire HD 8 being the first Amazon tablet to be integrated with Alexa, you can interact with your gadget and ask it to perform certain functions for you such as playing music, read audiobooks, search the web and a lot more.

Other Amazon Kindle Tablets don't have to worry because they are getting Alexa, too. The update will also come to the Amazon Fire, Fire HD 10, and the Fire HD 8 2015.

Bigger Memory And Faster Processor For The 2016 Kindle Fire HD 8

Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 8 Tablet 2016 is equipped with a quad-core MediaTek processor that allows it to perform faster than it used to with the Kindle Fire HD 8 2015. According to CNET, the Kindle Fire HD 8 2016 supports microSD cards up to 200 GB, but also offers more RAM and internal storage of either 16 GB and 32 GB.

New Features For Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 8 2016

The Fire HD 8 2016 runs on Fire OS 5 and now has a front-facing camera plus a primary camera with 2 megapixels. Sources suggest that Amazon's latest tablet has an 8-inch display, stereo speakers with Dolby Audio and a 4,750 mAh battery that can last up to 12 hours.  The Fire HD 8 2016 will come in four colors: black, tangerine, blue and magenta

Is Kindle Fire HD 8 2016 Tablet Better Than The iPad Mini 4?

There have been rumors that Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 8 2016 is two times more durable than the iPad Mini 4 after enduring several tumble tests. It is a lot more affordable which ideal for practical reasons, but the Fire HD 8 is no match to Apple's iPad Mini 4 in terms of the device's premium build quality.

 

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