

- AMAZON KINDLE FIRE HD 10 REVIEW 2016 FULL
- AMAZON KINDLE FIRE HD 10 REVIEW 2016 ANDROID
- AMAZON KINDLE FIRE HD 10 REVIEW 2016 PLUS
Up top are what I'll call media buttons: "Books", "Apps", "Music", "Movies", "Audiobooks", all of which take you to content within Amazon's ecosystem. Then I was left to explore the home screen, which is split into two sections.
AMAZON KINDLE FIRE HD 10 REVIEW 2016 ANDROID
When I first booted the device, it gave me a quick tutorial so I understood how the system worked, which was useful to a first-time Android user. Especially YouTube.Solid software performance can be anticipated, but what I really didn't expect was the thoughtfulness Amazon used when creating the Fire HD 10's user experience. Instead, all Google services are relegated to their web versions, which look a little outdated at this point. If you still use Google services, though, you'll be frustrated that Gmail and YouTube don't have real apps on Fire OS. If you live a Prime-based lifestyle, with the Unlimited-version of Amazon's Kindle and Music services, the Fire HD 10 will be a gateway to those buffets of content. Your view of the Fire HD 10's operating system - Fire OS, a fork of Android - will likely depend on how much content you consume from Amazon. Its rear camera also did a pretty good job picking up the purple of the tag on my Roku remote control, but that photo, and all the images I shot with the Fire HD 10, were still slightly soft, lacking the strong detail most phone cameras can get. The Fire HD 10 features 2.0-megapixel front and rear cameras are pretty decent, and can do for video calls, but neither will replace the cameras in your phone any time soon.Ī selfie I shot at home showed surprising amount of detail in my hair - not just the split ends you see in most low-end webcams - and captured the hues of my cheeks and lips relatively accurately.

AMAZON KINDLE FIRE HD 10 REVIEW 2016 PLUS
The Tom's Guide battery test (web surfing on Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness) drained the Fire HD 10 in 13 hours and 45 minutes, beating the times posted by the Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite (13:13), iPad 2020 (12:57) and Lenovo Tab 4 10 Plus (13:06). The Fire HD 10 provides shockingly long-lasting battery life that beats the field. This tablet is rated for 30% faster performance over previous versions, but we could not get benchmark tests to run on it, unfortunately. And what good is a neat-looking Mitsubishi when the frame rate drops when you're pushing it through cool stunts like a spinning leap off a ramp. In terms of gaming, the Asphalt 9 racing game looked great when all of the cars were revving their engines, but as the game introduced more chaotic elements, the Fire HD 10 had trouble keeping up. The Fire HD 10's 2.0 GHz octa-core CPU and 2GB of RAM enable decent performance, faster than I've seen in any Amazon tablet yet.Īs I smoothly tapped through Amazon's channels of home-grown content, the Fire HD 10 loaded everything pretty quickly, from songs in the Music app to samples of Kindle ebooks.
AMAZON KINDLE FIRE HD 10 REVIEW 2016 FULL
Listening to Lizzo's "Truth Hurts," her vocals sounded a little too sharp, and not full enough. Jamming out to Michael Jackson's "Thriller," at my home office, I noticed that while the tablet can fill a small-to-medium sized room, its low-end sounds were a little flat, and when I could hear some bass it was slightly distorted. The Fire HD 10 provides decent visuals, but its sound lacks slightly. The animations for zooming in and out of photos, however, had some lag time - but nothing too bad. The Amazon Fire HD 10's touchscreen provided speedy response times as I tapped and swiped around the Fire OS home screens. As Stormfront demolished a building's walls, I was able to see the action when I viewed the Fire HD 10 from 30 degrees to the left and right. The Fire HD 10 may be a bit reflective, but it's bright enough to be viewed from a decent range of angles. In terms of brightness, the Fire HD 10 maxes out at 403 nits, which is similar to the 400-nit Lenovo Tab 4 10 Plus, but it's outshined by the 484-nit iPad 2020 and the 427-nit MediaPad M5 Lite. Casey/Tom's Guide)Īccording to our Klein K10-A colorimeter, the Fire HD 10 produces a solid 106% of the sRGB spectrum, which beats the 97% rating from the new iPad (2020), while falling slightly behind the 109% from the Tab 4 10 Plus and the 114% rating from the MediaPad M5 Lite.
