There’s no obvious exaggeration to any part of the frequency range, no harshness to treble and no ballooning in the bass. It’s lovely to use a device that has a proper 3.5mm headphone socket, and if you use it to connect a pair of headphones to the Fire HD 8 you’ll be rewarded with an impressively balanced and grown-up delivery. The Fire HD 8’s picture performance is clearly a long way behind that of an iPad, but it gets the basics right and at this price, there’s essentially nothing (other than the overly reflective screen) to complain about. There’s good pop to bright objects such as the sun over Jedha, too. Colours are impressively natural, too – the balance is a touch cooler than the Fire 7’s, but there’s still authentically cinematic warmth to the HD 8’s presentation and skin tones are accurately reproduced and fairly subtly shaded. The extra brightness of the HD 8 over the Fire 7 means there’s extra contrast, and this combines with increased sharpness to make K-2SO’s metallic body more reflective and solid – essentially more realistically droid-like. The only real issue with dark scenes is that the screen is rather reflective, so the action can be hard to make out if you’re watching outside or in a well-lit room. There’s plenty of shadow detail from the HD 8, too. It’s also sharper and brighter, reproducing the green patterns on the displays of the Rebel base’s briefing room in Rogue One in significantly punchier fashion.īlack levels certainly aren’t inky deep from either tablet, but the HD 8’s are better and they’re good for a backlit device that costs so little. The extra inch obviously makes a big difference at this sort of size, making the movie experience more engaging all round. The Fire HD 8 costs almost twice as much as the Fire 7, which is itself very good for the money, but it quickly becomes clear that the HD 8 is well worth the extra. (Image credit: What Hi-Fi? / Amazon Prime Video, Invincible) iPads, meanwhile, have a pixel density of 264ppi in all cases except the iPad Mini, which has a disproportionately high pixel density of 326ppi. That’s a small but significant increase on the 171ppi density of the smaller Fire 7 but a significant decrease on the 224ppi of the Fire HD 10. Said resolution is 1280 x 800, which gives the tablet a pixel density of 189 pixels-per-inch (ppi). As the name suggests, the Fire HD 8 has an 8-inch screen with an HD resolution (it isn’t actually on fire, though). The screen is what we’re most interested in. A charger is included in the box and will take the battery from empty to full in around five hours. There are plenty of other, less popular apps that are missing from the Amazon App Store, too, so if there are any that you simply must have access to, it’s worth checking whether they’re supported before you go ahead and buy.Īmazon quotes a battery life of 13 hours of constant use, and we’re given no reason to doubt that figure during testing. However, Apple TV and Apple Music apps are missing, as is Discovery+ (the new home for BT Sport). Spotify, Tidal and Amazon Music are all on board, too. For those of us who are most interested in a device such as this for watching movies and listening to music on the move, most bases are covered, including big hitters such as Netflix, Disney+ and, of course, Amazon Prime Video, as well as all of the UK’s main catch-up apps plus Now and Sky Go. Speaking of which, it is worth noting that while Amazon’s tablet operating system is based on Android, the Google Play Store is not supported and Amazon’s own App Store is a little less well-appointed. Storage 32GB or 64GB (SD card expandable)
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