It’s a speaker you can happily listen to without feeling like you’re slowly grating your eardrums. It sounds much fuller than we usually hear from a lower-end ultra-skinny tablet, with a bit more warmth and weight down there in the lower frequencies. You get a pair of speakers built into the bottom edge of the tablet, at either end. Even the iPad Air 2 battery life dips to around six hours when you challenge it, though. Revving the engine a bit more, it seems clear the CPU can turn itself down pretty effectively, as when 3D gaming you’ll only get about four hours off a charge.
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Amazon claims it’ll last for eight hours, but when playing a locally-stores MP4 movie at the sort of brightness you might use indoors, it lasts for 11.5 hours. I was pretty happy with how long the Amazon Fire HD 10 lasts, as it goes.
Increasing the display size only puts more strain on the battery. It’s increasing resolution that drains more CPU power. After all, thanks to the 1,280 x 800 pixel screen the processor doesn’t actually have to work any harder than it does in the old Fire HD 6. There’s not much of a practical knock-on of having a lower-end CPU, though. In Geekbench 3 it scores 1440, which is pretty similar to the Snapdragon 410 CPU you’ll see in plenty of cheaper mobile devices these days. What you get is a quad-core MediaTek CPU with two power cores and two easy-going ones used when not all that much grunt is required. It’s actually less powerful than the CPU of the Nexus 7 from 2013. The actual power it has on tap is fine, but not close to what you get with the Nexus 9. Part of this likely comes from so much of the interface being made up of little bits of digital fluff that live in cache memory, to be written over and replaced regularly. Just getting from A to B takes longer, and there’s interface lagginess act times too.
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I also found it slower to operate than a ‘plain’ Android tablet. It’s app-discovery-tastic, but if you want a tablet that’ll just let you get on with the business of actually using it, the Amazon Fire HD 10 might get on your nerves. The rest is really about pointing you towards more stuff from these various places that you might like. However, now it sells pretty much everything digital, including music, audiobooks, ebooks, apps, video… and let’s not forget the Amazon Prime Instant Video Netflix-a-like service.įire OS is a set of horizontally-scrolling home-screens, but only one is dedicated to the stuff you own. It’s quite different to normal Android and iOS in that an awful lot of its interface space is taken up by content from the many Amazon silos rather than apps you’ve already downloaded.Īmazon was once a website where you’d buy stuff, and it’d get delivered. The Amazon Fire HD 10 runs Fire OS, the custom Amazon version of Android. It’s not dated in all areas, but that makes the ultra-low resolution even more head-scratching.
It also uses an up-to-date screen lamination technique, meaning that the image looks like it’s right on the surface rather than recessed.
It’s an IPS LCD screen like the iPad’s, and looks alright from any angle. The Amazon Fire HD 10 display isn’t terrible in all respects, though. To really bring it home, consider that the 5.5in Sony Xperia Z5 Premium screen has 8,294,400 pixels. And yes, that’s down to the tablet, not us.
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Remember how I was comparing the Amazon Fire HD 10 design to tablets of 2011? This is the resolution we got back then too.įeed the tablet a well-encoded 720p movie and it’ll still look sweet, but read articles on it and the text looks a bit crude. It’s dead blocky, to the extent that any other good elements of image quality are completely overshadowed by this naff pixel density. So stretched you can see between the pixels. Spreading 1280 x 800 pixels across 10.1 inches in 2015 is like stretching pizza dough so thin you can see through it.
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