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Fire HD 8 Tablet with Alexa, 8" HD Display, 32 GB, Black - with Special Offers (Previous Generation – 7th)

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  • Up to 12 hours of battery life, a vibrant 8" HD display, a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, 1.5 GB of RAM, and Dolby Audio. More durable than the latest iPad.
  • 16 or 32 GB of internal storage and a microSD slot for up to 256 GB of expandable storage
  • Just ask Alexa for quick access to the information and entertainment you want. Ask questions, play music, check your calendar, get the news, weather, and more.
  • Ask Alexa to call or message almost anyone, or make video calls to family and friends with a Fire tablet, Echo Spot, Echo Show, or the Alexa App. Instantly connect to enabled Echo devices.
  • Enjoy millions of movies, TV shows, songs, Kindle eBooks, apps and games - including Netflix, Facebook, HBO, Spotify, and more
  • Prime members get unlimited access to over a thousand books and magazines, millions of songs, and thousands of movies and TV episodes - at no additional cost
  • Watch downloaded videos anywhere with a Prime membership, Netflix plan, or Showtime subscription
Engineered by Amazon

Fast and responsive

Enjoy your entertainment with a fast 1.3 GHz quad-core processor. Fire HD 8 offers 50% more RAM than Fire 7 for faster performance.

No more worrying about storage space

With 2x more internal storage than Fire 7, Fire HD 8 comes standard with 16 GB. Expand your tablet’s storage by up to 256 GB using a microSD card, and keep photos, movies, and compatible games and apps with you. Plus enjoy free unlimited cloud storage for all your Amazon content and photos taken with your Fire tablet.

Capture life's moments

Fire HD 8 features a 2 MP rear-facing camera for taking photos or shooting 720p video. The front-facing VGA camera is perfect for Skype calls with friends and family.

Vibrant HD display

Fire HD 8 features a 1280 x 800 high-definition display with over a million pixels (189 ppi) and a bright, vivid picture. Enjoy movies and games in a crisp, clear HD resolution, with less glare and more brightness thanks to a stunning IPS (in-plane-switching) LCD display.

Power when you need it

Now with up to 12 hours of mixed-use battery life, Fire HD 8 gives you the flexibility to go where the day takes you.

Stands up to everyday life

Amazon engineers Fire tablets to hold up against everyday life. As measured in tumble tests, Fire HD 8 is more durable than the latest iPad and 2x more durable than iPad mini 4 (and costs a lot less too).

Designed for entertainment
Designed for entertainment

Enjoy millions of movies, TV episodes, songs, books, apps, and games''

Blue Shade''

Adjust the backlight for nighttime reading with Blue Shade.

Read

Choose from millions of Kindle eBook and magazine titles that you won't be able to find anywhere else. Over 1 million titles are priced at $2.99 or less. Or read as much as you want with a Kindle Unlimited subscription for just $9.99 a month. Connect with the largest online community of book lovers on Goodreads.

Read comfortably at night with Blue Shade, an exclusive Fire OS feature that automatically adjusts and optimizes the backlight for a more comfortable nighttime reading experience.

Listen

With millions of songs from thousands of artists, the Amazon Digital Music Store brings all your favorite music to your fingertips. Music you buy on your Fire tablet is saved to Your Music Library for free, and you can play or download it anytime.

Unlock more music with Amazon Music Unlimited, just $7.99 per month for Prime members ($9.99 per month for non-Prime members).

Audible offers more than 180,000 titles in audiobooks, including best sellers, romances, thrillers, and much more.

Watch

Enjoy all your favorite movies and TV shows on Amazon Video, Netflix, HBO NOW, Sling TV, and more. Discover hundreds of thousands of TV episodes and movies, plus fling Amazon Video content to your TV using Second Screen. Enhance your video experience with features you only get from Amazon, including On Deck for watching videos anywhere, ASAP for fast video streaming, and X-Ray to go behind the scenes of your favorite movies and TV shows while you watch.

Watch downloaded videos anywhere with a Prime membership, Netflix plan, or Showtime subscription—on a plane, on vacation, in the car, or wherever you don't have a wireless connection.

Play

Fire tablets feature instant access to over 600,000 of the most popular free and best-selling games, social media, premium TV and movie provider apps, and so much more.

Choose from top titles including Candy Crush Saga, Township, Mobile Strike, and more.

Meet Alexa

Alexa on Fire tablets

Alexa provides quick access to the entertainment you want, including music, games, audiobooks, and more. You can also ask Alexa questions, check your calendar, get news, find sports scores, and even control your smart home. Alexa hands-free is available when your tablet’s screen is on or the device is connected to power. Enabling Alexa hands-free may reduce battery life.

Everyday made easier

Alexa on Fire tablets helps make every day easier. Just ask to set alarms and timers, check traffic, your calendar, to-do or shopping lists, and more. You can order millions of items with your voice, such as household and personal care products.

Calling and Messaging

Ask Alexa to call almost any local number, message your contacts, or video call friends and family who have a Fire Tablet, Echo Spot, Echo Show, or have installed the iOS or Android Alexa App. You can also instantly connect with family and friends by asking Alexa to drop in on enabled Echo devices, or compatible Fire tablets, when the tablet is in Show Mode. For example, you can drop in to ask what time dinner will be ready, see the baby's nursery, or check in with a close relative. Learn more

Voice control your smart home

Alexa works with devices such as smart cameras, lights, switches, thermostats and cooking tools from Arlo, WeMo, LIFX, Rachio, Chef Step and more. Switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the fan or change the temperature on your thermostat while reading in your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie—just ask.

Stay informed

Now you can ask Alexa a question and get an immediate voice response. When you ask, Alexa can pull up your Flash Briefing, Wikipedia articles, news, sports scores, and more.

Be entertained

Whether you’re looking for your favorite playlist or need a quick joke, you can ask Alexa. Just ask for a song, artist or genre, and stream directly over Wi-Fi. Alexa also provides voice control for Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and more.

Exclusive features on Fire tablets
Exclusive features on Fire tablets

Introducing For You

Fire OS includes For You, a dynamic and personalized page on the tablet home screen that makes it easy for customers to get back to reading, watching, listening, or playing—and to quickly find what's next. For You learns what you love to do on your tablet and then presents personalized recommendations across books, videos, songs, apps, and more. Get your weather, Prime photos, and more right from the For You home screen.

Find the things you love easier

Fire OS is the best entertainment experience on a tablet with quick access to the things you do most. The home screen includes dedicated content pages for books, games, and apps, video, music, audiobooks, and Newsstand. Powered by Amazon’s recommendations engine, you can quickly browse new books, movies, TV shows, music, apps, and games.

Share content with Family Library

Family Library links your Amazon account to that of your spouse or partner so you can easily share apps, games, audiobooks, and books, and it now allows Prime members to share their Prime Video content. Access your family's content across devices—both Amazon devices and free Amazon apps for other platforms, including iOS and Android.

Enhance your viewing experience

With ASAP (Advanced Streaming and Prediction), Amazon movies and TV episodes are ready for you to watch instantly. ASAP dynamically adapts to your viewing habits.

On Deck automatically downloads Prime Video (for Prime members) and the first episodes of Amazon Original Series while your device isn’t in use, ensuring that there is always something new to enjoy instantly, even when offline.

Integrated on-device tech support

Screen Sharing brings Mayday-powered customer service to Fire tablets. Simply call customer service and Amazon experts can connect to your Fire tablet to co-pilot through features by drawing on your screen, walking you through how to do something yourself, or doing it for you—whatever works best.

Access your entertainment across all devices

Whispersync remembers how much you've watched, read, or listened to so you can pick up right where you left off, no matter which device you are using. Plus, with every Fire tablet, you get free, unlimited cloud storage for all your Amazon content including unlimited storage on photos you've taken with your Fire tablet.

The best of Prime

Try Prime free for a month

If you haven't tried Amazon Prime in the past, we'll give you a 30-day free trial. Experience what millions of members already enjoy—unlimited streaming of thousands of hit movies and TV episodes, ad-free access to over two million songs, over a thousand Kindle books, and Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items. Learn more

Unlimited reading on any device

Prime Reading gives you unlimited access to over a thousand books, current magazines, comics, Kindle Singles, and more. With any device – including your phone, tablet, or Kindle – you can read however you want, whenever you want.

Prime''

Best of Prime''

Stream thousands of movies and TV episodes with Prime Video

With Amazon Prime, members enjoy unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes at no additional cost, including award-winning Amazon Original series like Jack Ryan and Sneaky Pete, and top HBO shows like True Blood, Girls, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.

No Wi-Fi, no problem—Prime Video downloads

Exclusive to Prime members, download thousands of Prime Video movies and TV episodes. Watch downloaded videos anywhere—on a plane, on vacation, in the car, or wherever you don't have a wireless connection. Prime Video offers offline viewing at no additional cost.

The best of Prime''

Over 2 million songs free with Prime Music

Prime Music is a benefit of your Amazon Prime Membership, featuring a growing selection of over two million songs, always ad-free and on-demand. Unlock more music with Amazon Music Unlimited, just $7.99 per month for Prime members. Learn more about Unlimited

Add HBO, SHOWTIME and more to Prime

With Prime Video Channels, Prime members can also subscribe to over 100 premium and specialty channels like HBO and SHOWTIME to add and stream—no cable or satellite subscription necessary. Prime members can subscribe to any or all of these channels with a free trial.

Share with your kids

Designed with kids in mind

When kids use Amazon FreeTime, it's like they have their very own personalized tablet. The background color and fonts change to a kid-friendly design and they only see the titles that you give them access to.

Over 20,000 kid-friendly titles with FreeTime Unlimited

Amazon FreeTime Unlimited is the first-ever an all-in-one subscription that brings together books, games, educational apps, movies, and TV shows—all the types of content that kids and parents love. From just $2.99 per month, enjoy unlimited access to content including titles from Disney, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, PBS, and more.

Perfect for parents

Amazon FreeTime is built from the ground up to help give parents peace of mind when it comes to tablet use. Parents can create a profile for each of their children and choose which books, apps, games, and videos they want to give their kids access to. Amazon FreeTime is free on every Fire tablet.

Fire Kids Edition tablets also available

The Fire 7 Kids Edition and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition tablets include the Fire tablet, 1-year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, a Kid-Proof Case, plus a 2-year worry-free guarantee. Kids get access to 20,000 popular apps and games, videos, books and educational content from PBS Kids, Nickelodeon, Disney, and more with one year of FreeTime Unlimited. Best-in-class parental controls allow you to manage usage limits, content access, and educational goals.

Learn more

Limit screen time, so they don’t just play

With Amazon FreeTime, parents can set daily limits for tablet use, or restrict certain categories—like games and video—while leaving unlimited time for reading.

Make it personal
Make it personal
Make it personal

Made with premium fabric, our slim, form-fitting case designed by Amazon conveniently allows your Fire tablet to rest in either landscape or portrait orientation so you can enjoy your content hands-free.

Easy to attach and remove, the cases are integrated with a magnetic closure to ensure your cover stays shut while on the go, and automatically puts your Fire tablet to sleep when it is closed and wakes it upon opening.

Explore beyond our cases, and accessorize your device with a wide selection of memory cards, screen protectors, extended warranty services, and more. Learn more

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Customer reviews

4.3 out of 5 stars
4.3 out of 5
7,589 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the camera, ease of use, value, and screen size of the tablet. They mention that it has a decent display, the graphics are wonderful, and that it's pretty easy to add Google Play. They also appreciate the screen size, saying that it is the perfect size for reading. Customers are also satisfied with quality. However, some customers have issues with apps and disagree on performance, and battery life.

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1,231 customers mention1,019 positive212 negative

Customers like the camera of the tablet. They mention that it has a decent display, the graphics are wonderful, and the picture is nice in HD. The resolution and color quality are both very good. The clarity rocks, and speakers are loud enough to watch movies or listen. The microsd card access door cover was well designed and worked well. The net pages are also bright and crisp, and there are no pixels.

"...After near 4 years, it had a great run, as a wonderful screen to look at, while reading books, & surfing the Net to read articles & such...." Read more

"...It is an excellent device for media consumption...." Read more

"...The price is amazing- The Amazon origami case is the best I have ever encountered on a tablet-..." Read more

"...The response time is very good, and the display is as good as any user could want, From a user's point of view, I think this tablet would be more..." Read more

857 customers mention650 positive207 negative

Customers like the ease of use of the tablet. For example, they say it's fairly user friendly, simple to charge, and convenient to use. They also mention that it provides a great user experience, and is simple to mount.

"...Amazon's Fire OS fork of Android is streamlined and provides a great user experience. It does not choke the hardware at all...." Read more

"...All of the Amazon books, video, etc. is easily accessible on this tablet, They are also available on the higher priced tablets, but at a much higher..." Read more

"...The Blue Shade mode for nighttime use? Great addition.Easy-to-use power and volume buttons on the top...." Read more

"...And there is absolutely NO user information included with the tablet. Not a single word. Just dive in, push buttons and try to figure it all out...." Read more

745 customers mention669 positive76 negative

Customers like the value of the tablet. They say it's amazing for the price, a wonderful buy, and cheap.

"...favorite hardware purchases ever because it is a simply astounding device for the price. I paid $75 for the 32GB model with Offers...." Read more

"...The price is amazing- The Amazon origami case is the best I have ever encountered on a tablet-..." Read more

"...Worth every penny. Durable and well made...." Read more

"...to Fire HD tablet because I like the 8" size and the Prime day price was attractive. Well, some bargains are no bargains...." Read more

543 customers mention454 positive89 negative

Customers like the screen size of the tablet. For example, they say it's not too big and not too small, it'll fit in their purse, and the larger print makes reading easier. Some mention that the sound is stereo phonic and amazing from such a small device. Overall, most are happy with the size and weight of the product.

"...It can & does, fit in my coat pocket, so when we go to Starbucks on the weekends, for cawfee & to read, it transports just fine, like the 7" one..." Read more

"...What do I like about it?:- I like the widescreen ratio on the screen for watching movies- The price is amazing-..." Read more

"...Why the fire? It's perfect to take with me when I make short business trips (versus a laptop) or to carry with me when I work with clients on the job..." Read more

"...It was a little heavier than I was expecting but the weight is actually perfect when you go into easel mode with the case...." Read more

450 customers mention327 positive123 negative

Customers like the quality of the tablet. They say it's well built, has high quality, and durable. Some customers also mention that it provides so much functionality for such a low price. Overall, customers are satisfied with the quality and functionality of the product.

"...Easy to navigateMany more settings options available than in the past (though many items still locked down)CONS:..." Read more

"...Worth every penny. Durable and well made...." Read more

"...The charge rate is slow. Sloooow. If the battery is low, throwing it on the charger for 30 minutes is not going to give you a significant bump...." Read more

"...This is an Amazon media and shopping machine. It is well built, has good battery life, reasonably fast and responsive, dual band wifi, SD card slot..." Read more

1,318 customers mention834 positive484 negative

Customers are mixed about the performance of the tablet. Some mention that it responds very quickly, is easy to navigate, and simple to use. They also say that the Alexa functionality is quick with no issues. However, others say that it slowly became slow and the battery was getting worse. They mention that the sluggishness in scrolling through their books in the library and the charge rate is slow.

"...So, gets a huge thumbs up for speed, quickness, & doing it all day. As I do article research allot,, that is important for me...." Read more

"...The charge rate is slow. Sloooow. If the battery is low, throwing it on the charger for 30 minutes is not going to give you a significant bump...." Read more

"...the screen size, I prefer Amazon for purchasing movies, the origami case works better than anything I ever had for my ipad and the widescreen ratio..." Read more

"...The response time is very good, and the display is as good as any user could want, From a user's point of view, I think this tablet would be more..." Read more

411 customers mention254 positive157 negative

Customers are mixed about the battery life of the tablet. Some mention that it has great battery life, while others say that it does eat up the battery.

"...Battery life is incredible, thanks to the underpowered processor...." Read more

"...from the wifi which none of our other Kindles do and today it drained power so fast, I could practically see it draining out the side of the Kindle...." Read more

"...Is there anything that I do like? Yes1. Battery life (at least while it is so new) is excellent...." Read more

"...The battery life seems to be excellent. I am very unimpressed with the front facing camera. In my office the entire room looks green and grainy...." Read more

443 customers mention125 positive318 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the apps available on the tablet. They mention that the Amazon App Store offers no good selection of apps, not all Android apps will work, and the Fire OS does not support many apps that they need to use. They also mention that there is a lack of a native YouTube app and that the app store is not as extensive as Google Play. Customers also mention they have had trouble with the ESPN Watch app.

"...Bad. No search button. Since I have ripped my music from CDS to my pc they are in WMA format which the Fire does not support...." Read more

"...3. Not all apps (purchased (i.e. not free!) from Amazon app store) that I had on my old tablet appeared in the list of available apps...." Read more

"...However, it's not hard to sideload other apps; just do some research online for instructions...." Read more

"...I didn't give it 5 stars only because it is not a general purpose tablet. This is a dramatic improvement over the Fire 7...." Read more

Fine tablet but setup issues drive me NUTS!
3 Stars
Fine tablet but setup issues drive me NUTS!
We've owned a million Fire tablets at this point, and they're fine (I continue to buy them) but they have a couple issues that can be really annoying. We use Amazon Prime quite a bit, have an Echo Dot, etc, so Fire tablets make sense for us. I also have several youngish kids, so I'm not willing to shell out hundreds of dollars yet for more expensive devices.My first complaint would be that we've had charging issues with two of them (in each case, the charger eventually wouldn't stay in the port unless we set it up in a very certain position ...annoying). My second complaint (and the one currently plaguing me this evening) would be the mind-numbing updating-restoring-installing loop these things sometimes get stuck in when setting them up. I ordered 4 new ones for the kids for Christmas to replace older ones and it SHOULD be SO simple to just turn the stupid things on, choose which kid's stuff to "restore" to the new Fire, and be done (according to Amazon as well). Not so. I've spent all evening with 3 of these, as they got stuck in this stupid never-ending loop. Even when it DOES finally act like it's set up, nothing has actually "restored" to the tablet...the apps they had on their previous tablets aren't downloaded (so I have to go to Cloud and get all these individually? What's the point of the Backup & Restore feature then??!). Only 1 out of 4 of these tablets has actually been a quick setup. I shouldn't be surprised; when I bought the last set of Fire tablets around 1.5 years ago, exact same issue. I've begun to dread getting any new devices for the kids because I just know it will mean another long afternoon of frustration.
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