Amazon’s 2024 Fire HD 8 tablet is already on sale for Prime Day

Amazon up to date its Fireplace HD 8 lineup final week and promptly put the pill on sale for Prime Day. The 2024 mannequin has extra RAM, a greater digicam setup and built-in AI options to make it totally different from its predecessor. The machine, which is able to normally begin at $100 (with lock-screen adverts), has been discounted to $55 for October Prime Day.

As its identify suggests, the brand new Fireplace HD 8 has an 8-inch show with a 1280 x 800 decision (189 ppi). One of many 2024 mannequin’s huge upgrades is 3GB of RAM within the base storage tier (32B). In the meantime, the 64GB variant slides as much as 4GB of RAM. After all, it is a price range pill, so these aren’t near barrier-breaking numbers. However that’s nonetheless 50 to 100% greater than the 2GB of RAM within the 2022 mannequin.

Amazon charges the Fireplace HD 8 for as much as 13 hours of battery life. The pill’s rear digicam is 5MP. (That’s the identical because the “Plus” model of its 2022 predecessor, but it surely’s greater than the 2MP within the outdated normal model.)

The tablets will embody some generative AI capabilities. Like Apple’s early tackle AI in its 2024 updates, these embody a Writing Help characteristic that may jot out messages primarily based on prompts. It will possibly additionally summarize internet pages, make grammar ideas and tweak brevity.

There will even be two youngsters’ variations of the pill: the Fireplace HD 8 Children and Fireplace HD 8 Children Professional. As you’d anticipate from Amazon’s child-focused variants, these variations will embody a “kid-proof” case in Disney-branded designs (together with Pixar Automobiles, Disney Princess or Marvel Avengers). Additionally they include a subscription to Amazon Children+, the corporate’s content material supply service (together with cellular video games!) for the kiddos.

The Fireplace HD 8 is offered now from Amazon, beginning at $55 for Prime Day (normally $100). The Fireplace HD 8 Children pill sometimes begins at $140 however is on sale for $70 for Prime Day.

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