Amazon "Fire HD 8" (Gen 7)

Amazon's "Fire HD 8 (7th generation)" is an 8-inch tablet for enjoying digital content provided by Amazon, such as the Kindle store and Amazon videos. It does not have the same price impact as the 7-inch "Fire 7" that can be purchased from the actual sale of 4,980 yen, but the actual sale price is 11,980 yen, and if you are an Amazon Prime member, you can get it for 7,980 yen by using the coupon code distributed at the time of writing. Reasonable price is attractive.

Amazon's tablet "Fire" series is currently deployed in three screen sizes of 7/8/10 type, but among them, the most favorite model is the cheapest 7 type "Fire 7" It can be said that this product is not. Adopting a CPU that is one rank higher than Fire 7, the memory capacity is 1.5GB, which is 50% more, the speaker is stereo instead of monaural, and the large capacity model with 32GB storage that "Fire 7" does not have Being prepared is advantageous for watching videos.

This time, we will deliver a review using commercial products for the 7th generation model of this Fire HD 8, which has undergone a model change following last year.

Product appearance. As in the past, the design is usually supposed to be used vertically, but compared to the 7-inch "Fire 7", there is plenty of room in the top and bottom even in landscape orientation. There's a power button, Micro USB connector, earphone jack, volume button at the top, and a microSD slot on the side, which we'll cover in more detail later in this article. The arrangement of these buttons is different from the 5th generation Fire. Two speakers are mounted on the side. It is a rational arrangement that divides into left and right when turned sideways.These designs inherit the 6th generation model