

Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) battery lifeĪmazon declared that the Fire HD 8 tablet can offer up to 12 hours of battery life, but on our Laptop Mag Battery Test (continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness), the Amazon tablet lasted a whopping 13 hours and 49 minutes.

The Lenovo Tab 4 10 Plus and the Huawei Media M5 Lite netted scores of 4,097 and 3,705, respectively. On the Geekbench 4 overall performance test, the Fire HD 8 tablet earned a middling score of 2,437, which is far lower than the category average of 7,901. I was surprised to see that there was no stuttering or lagging while perusing through all the apps. In addition to those 10 apps, I pulled up a few more apps, such as Amazon Shopping and Newsstand, and the load time was only negligibly longer than usual. The Fire HD 10 takes everything great about the HD 8 and kicks it up a notch with better specs, a larger display, louder speakers, and the same Fire OS experience. Except for taking a split second to load, I didn’t experience a system slowdown.
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I then opened the Silk browser and launched 11 tabs, including a 1080p YouTube video. Even though the Fire HD’s operating system ‘FireOS’ is based off Android, there are differences that make this unique to regular tablets. I tested the Fire HD 8’s multitasking muscle by running 10 apps in the background. View on Amazon Amazon did not include the google play store app natively in the Fire Hd, it instead has invented its own App Store: the ‘Amazon App Store’.
