![]() Response to swipes and taps are delayed, menu pages take longer to load, and apps are sluggish to launch. ![]() Performance is sluggish when downloading anything, from an app to a video. The Fire HD 10 performs smoothly for most of the activities it's designed for swiping to the next page of a book is swift, apps launch seconds after the initial tap, and browsing the Web is smooth as butter - unless you're downloading anything. ![]() The Amazon Fire HD 10 houses a MediaTek ARM Cortex A15 quad-core CPU two 1.2GHz and two 1.5GHz, PowerVR Rogue G6200 GPU, 1GB of RAM, 8GB or 16GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot expandable up to 128GB. Smudge-prone design Josh Miller/CNET Hardware Look forward to an update to this review when the rest of the features are available for us to try out. The new features sound promising and give the OS a unique appeal to shoppers. Information on which apps, videos or games are used and for how long are a few of the details the feature will provide.Īmazon's Fire OS is maturing nicely with thoughtful enhancements to the user experience and better organization. It'll allow parents to see exactly how kids are using the tablet. The number of episodes or movie length will depend on how much space you have available, and if you happen to need that space for anything else, the downloaded content will automatically be deleted.Īctivity Center is an extension of Amazon's already comprehensive parental controls. This way, if you're ever stranded without Wi-Fi, you'll at least have something new to watch on your tablet. Amazon Prime TV and movie recommendations will systematically download on to your tablet for offline viewing. On Deck automatically downloads Amazon recommended video onto the tablet, if your available storage space allows. We'll update this review with more details and impressions as soon as the update is released.Īmazon has more features in store for the Fire tablets. Our review unit ran an early version of the operating system and didn't have any of those features for us to try out. ![]() According to Amazon, that'll be sometime in the next few months. Coming soonĪ few of the new features - On Deck and Activity Center - won't roll out until the next over-the-air update for Fire OS 5 Bellini. (More on that in the Performance section of the review) If you're sharing your tablet with your kids, I have a hunch that this might be one of their favorite fetaures. Not heavy-duty games with lots of flashy graphics, but simple mobile games, like the ones with a fun, cute or angry animal protagonist. You actually do get these games and in-app purchases for free.Īmazon Underground is a great incentive for playing games on the Fire tablets. I downloaded a few games priced at $10 and I kept waiting for a catch. Like awaiting the boom of a firework right after it's lit, I kept expecting to have bust out my credit card and pay up, but it never happened. Details on what in-app purchases are free are conveniently detailed in the description of the app's download page.Įasy access to the TV shows, movies, music and games that come with a Prime membership. In order to differentiate themselves from regular apps, Amazon Underground apps have a little sash on the top left of their icons that says "actually free." There are a lot of popular games available through Amazon Underground - like Badland and Fruit Ninja - and games that are free downloads to begin with include free in-app purchases. You get access to a bevy of different titles, and sure, the selection is limited, but it's free so you can't complain too much. Think of it as the gaming version of Amazon Prime Video. Amazon UndergroundĪmazon Underground allows you to download tons of games in the Amazon App store for free - literally. When you call Amazon for assistance with your tablet, you can share the tablet's screen with the customer service rep so they can see what's going on and help walk you through solutions. If you're already overwhelmed with what the Fire HD 10 can do, Mayday Screen Sharing is a useful feature for helping you figure it all out. Magazine subscriptions land on your homepage when new issues are released.
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