Amazon reckons it will last about 10 hours of mixed use, which was about right in my testing. It’s not going to win any performance awards – a top-end smartphone will be faster – but it was more than acceptable, feeling slightly snappier than the Fire HD 8.īattery life was also pretty good. Everyday performance is much smoother, with navigating and loading apps fairly snappy and browsing with multiple tabs in the Silk browser mostly smooth, while game performance was solid even in graphically intensive games such as Real Racing.
The new Fire HD 10 has a new 1.8GHz quad-core processor and double the RAM of its predecessor at 2GB.
Camera: 2MP rear camera, 0.3MP front-facing cameraĪ microSD card slot on the side is available to expand storage if 32GB or 64GB isn’t enough. Operating system: Fire OS 5 based on Android 5 Lollipop. Storage: 32 or 64GB microSD slot also available. I couldn’t hear them over my cooker hood fan going full blast and the kettle boiling in the kitchen, but dialogue was perfectly audible in most situations. The speakers along the top edge are similar in quality to the Fire HD 8: they are fairly clear and loud for a tablet and make Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa sound pretty good. Indoors it looks great, with good viewing angles, and it is still up to the task on a train in the British sun. It’s not quite in the same league as Apple’s £619, 10.5in iPad Pro, but only costs a quarter as much. Movies and TV shows look great, and photos look pretty good too. The 10.1in screen is now full HD 1080p, up from just 720p, and looks a lot crisper and brighter. The other big change is a much improved, higher resolution screen. There’s a bit of flex and give in the body, and it’s quite thick and heavy by premium standards at 9.8mm and 500g, but it’s perfectly fine to hold on a lap or propped up on the arm of a seat for extended viewing sessions. The Fire HD 10’s body is made of a durable-feeling plastic that looks particularly good in red.
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