![]() ![]() Most tablets charge in two to three hours. It took five hours to fully charge the Fire HD 10. The biggest issue for battery life is that the screen does not have an ambient light sensor and does not adjust brightness automatically, which means it’s often too bright or too dull.Ĭharging took forever. The battery lasted around seven hours of video playback. Graphically intensive games such as Real Racing 3 were virtually unplayable, while even Monument Valley stuttered from time to time. Swiping across the homescreen could also lag badly, while installing apps brought the tablet to a crawl. Video playback could sometimes be smooth, but would often miss frames and judder. But it’s when you start to load the second, or switch to another app that things start to creak. ![]() ![]() Loading the first video from Amazon’s Prime Instant Video also works fine. When the tablet first starts up it operates fine. Some things ran fine, but actually launching them or switching between different tasks was dogged by a lag long enough to make you wonder whether the tablet had crashed. The Fire HD 10.1 has a quad-core MediaTek processor and 1GB of RAM, which is not up to the task of powering the tablet. Camera: 5MP rear camera, 0.3MP front-facing cameraĪ microSD card slot is one of the few plus points for the Fire HD 10, allowing you to add more storage easily.Operating system: Fire OS 5 based on Android 5 Lollipop.Storage: 16 or 32GB microSD slot also available.Processor: MediaTek quad-core (1.5GHz dual-core + 1.2GHz dual-core).Still not good enough to use as a dedicated music player, but fine for watching a video while cooking. The stereo speakers on the side of the tablet were surprisingly good and loud for tablet speakers. Although Amazon’s Bookerly typeface helps – switching to helvetica accentuates the problem – I found it difficult to read for extended periods as the text was just not crisp enough at the small size I would normally read. It’s particularly obvious when you attempt to read a book on it, which looks like something from five years ago. It doesn’t matter too much for video, which looks passable, with average colour and good viewing angles, but text, icons, photos and other static things look noticeably pixelated. The screen is not sharp, which makes text, icons and pictures look less than crisp. Amazon’s previous large Fire HD, the HD 8.9, had a 1080p screen with 254ppi. For comparison most tablets have at least 200ppi. It’s 10.1in with a 720p resolution and low pixel density of 149 pixels per inch. The screen is the biggest let down of all. At 432g it isn’t too heavy to hold for a 40 minute TV show, but I found myself searching for somewhere to prop it up when trying to finish a 2.5 hour movie. It also has relatively compact bezels around the 10.1in widescreen, which makes it feel narrow but long for a tablet. The buttons and ports all line the top edge, which means either your hand covers the volume buttons and headphones port or power button and microUSB port when held to watch video.Īt 7.7mm thick it is surprisingly thin for a low-end tablet. It feels well put together, but the body is more flexible than I would have expected. I dropped it a few times onto carpet without breaking it, but didn’t set out to try and destroy it. Covered in a soft, glossy plastic that I managed to mark within seconds of getting it out of the box, it looks cheap.Īmazon made a big deal about the tablet being durable and surviving 200 turns in the company’s tumble test compared to the iPad Air 2’s 30. The design of the Fire HD 10 is very utilitarian. The back of the tablet is a glossy plastic that picks up fingerprints and scratches easily. ![]()
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