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Fire HD 8 Tablet with Alexa, 8" HD Display, 16 GB, Marine Blue - with Special Offers (Previous Generation – 7th)

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16 GB
With Special Offers
Marine Blue
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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. 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. 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. (Fire tablets currently do not support incoming Drop In requests or incoming Alexa Announcements.) Learn more

Voice control your smart home

Alexa works with compatible devices such as smart cameras, lights, switches, thermostats and cooking tools from Arlo, Philips Hue, TP-Link, Ecobee, Rachio, GE Appliances, and more. Switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, 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. Ask for a song, artist or genre, and stream directly over Wi-Fi. Alexa also provides voice control for Amazon Music, Spotify, 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
28,026 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the quality, value, ease of use, and size of the tablet. For example, they mention it's well built, has a good screen, and is great for the price. Some appreciate the size and weight. That said, opinions are mixed on performance.

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5,147 customers mention4,326 positive821 negative

Customers like the quality of the tablet. They mention that it works extremely well, is solidly built, and has a good display. Some say that it's better than a phone and has 12 hour battery life. Overall, most are satisfied with the quality and functionality of the product.

"...tablet with 32 gig of memory, expandable memory with an SD card, good display and 12 hour battery life for $109.99?..." Read more

"...Plays everything without screen jitter [NETFLIX & HULU & YOUTUBE + apps for video capture (nope)/then downloaded to the *card] AND has an..." Read more

"...It's plastic, but it's sturdy, and feels like a quality device...." Read more

"...This tablet is exactly what Amazon was describing. It is cheap, looks good, loads apps quickly, expandable storage, good speakers, decent screen and..." Read more

3,509 customers mention3,197 positive312 negative

Customers are satisfied with the value of the tablet. They mention it's great for the price, the price for performance is quite crazy, and it'll be well worth it. They also appreciate the responsiveness and easy to use that it is. Overall, customers are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.

"...They don't bother me anymore.Overall a good buy for the features and money and a good starter tablet for a youngster or an adult wanting..." Read more

"...they will probably add others as demand increases, plus the price point is just right...." Read more

"...What can I say that others haven't? It's a very cheap tablet, and it's a good one at that. Don't buy this expecting an iPad - it's not...." Read more

"...This tablet is exactly what Amazon was describing. It is cheap, looks good, loads apps quickly, expandable storage, good speakers, decent screen and..." Read more

2,822 customers mention2,236 positive586 negative

Customers find the tablet easy to use. They mention it's responsive, has an efficient user interface, and is responsive. They also say it'll have no lag, no crashes, and no fuss. Customers also say the tablet is easy enough to get around and that the Hoopla app is amazingly easy to download.

"...AND has an exceptional app store, an extremely easy set-up, and it replaces the $219.00_09/06/16 boat anchor RECPAD 10 for..." Read more

"...tablet - you can't expect much, but overall it's very capable and snappy...." Read more

"...The start up didn't take long and it came preloaded with my account on it...." Read more

"...I find it slower and more difficult to use.• The display is good for the price but not up to par with more expensive tablets...." Read more

2,111 customers mention1,893 positive218 negative

Customers like the size of the tablet. They say the screen is large enough to make viewing videos or movies easy on the eyes. They also say the resolution is more than adequate for watching movies and reading. Customers also mention that the tablet is easy to hold for longer periods of time, and is comfortable to put in a backpack.

"...They are ideal for adults and children. They are an easy size to hold and carry...." Read more

"...It's a great little companion device even if it can't do what I originally bought it for...." Read more

"...It's a nice texture on the outside, the plastic case that holds the Fire is tight and seems very secure, and the magnets/close for sleep work great...." Read more

"...It is an 8 inch HD display, it has a quad core processor, 1.3 gigahertz...." Read more

1,474 customers mention1,044 positive430 negative

Customers like the battery life of the tablet. They say it has an excellent battery life, and can go for hours without having to charge. The tablet being OFF has no observed effect on the battery.

"...I like the additional battery life and the ability to greatly expand the memory storage area...." Read more

"...eliminates any lag from the tablet being OFF, yet has no observed effect on the battery to any degree (sic, tested against several sleep cycles)...." Read more

"...and just opening and starting in general, and the battery life sure wasn't 12 hours...." Read more

"...Battery is good. 4/5. Will get you through the day - not amazing, but good...." Read more

1,340 customers mention1,027 positive313 negative

Customers like the screen quality of the tablet. For example, they mention that the display is crystal clear, the colors are bright, and vivid. They also appreciate the HD display, which is 1280x800. Overall, most are satisfied with the quality of this tablet.

"...looks good, loads apps quickly, expandable storage, good speakers, decent screen and all while staying under 80 bucks...." Read more

"...The screen is quite pleasant and shows you really don't need to to go nuts with resolution on these smaller screens...." Read more

"...Loud, clear speakers as long as the music doesn't have too much base (the base distorts badly above 60% volume levels on ANY song)-..." Read more

"...Screen is average. 2.5/5. This is where Amazon saved some money on producing these...." Read more

5,719 customers mention3,639 positive2,080 negative

Customers are mixed about the performance of the tablet. Some mention that it performs well, while others say that it's not as fast as the Nvidia. The interface is fast and responsive, while still being light. However, some customers also mention that the tablet is slow at downloading and connecting to Wi-Fi, and that it takes a long time to load a books page.

"...For the money this has been a good tablet and it has performed well.This tablet has good performance and expandability for a low price." Read more

"...It doesn't always work though. I disabled auto downloading on videos and it still wants to keep downloading them...." Read more

"...This eliminates any lag from the tablet being OFF, yet has no observed effect on the battery to any degree..." Read more

"...Again, it's a cheap tablet - you can't expect much, but overall it's very capable and snappy...." Read more

1,421 customers mention316 positive1,105 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the apps on the tablet. They mention that the lack of Android apps and the Google Play Store is a turn off. They also say that the Amazon app store is far more limited than the Google play store, there are too many preloaded apps, and the social media apps are not as mature as the iOS apps.

"...The Google Play store does not exist, it's actually blocked - but Amazon provides their version of the "Appstore" which has most of the AAA..." Read more

"...There are very few apps that I was interested in in their store. I got the usual: Netflix and Plex to watch my other content (No Vudu, yet)...." Read more

"...3. The Amazon App Store is far more limited than the Google Play Store (See note below). I would like to install the Starbucks app on my tablet...." Read more

"...video capture (nope)/then downloaded to the *card] AND has an exceptional app store, an extremely easy set-up, and it replaces the $219.00_09/06/16..." Read more

Kindle Fire HD8
5 Stars
Kindle Fire HD8
This is the first Amazon Kindle Fire that I have owned. I have always one for other options thinking that the Kindle Fire was not what I wanted. I was very, very wrong. This next generation of tablets are amazing!It has about 12 hours battery life, it has many settings that you can use to save your battery by going off Wifi if you don't need it. It is an 8 inch HD display, it has a quad core processor, 1.3 gigahertz. It it has 16 or 32 gigabytes of internal storage, and a MicroSD slot for up to 256GB. So you really have a lot of storage! It is so well made, I was surprised, because I have three other tablets which take forever to open. The Amazon Fire comes on instantly. You push the "on" button and it's on. It also contains 'Alexa', which will be really helpful in accessing information and entertainment. You can ask questions, play music, check your calendar, you can get news, and weather, and so much more. Just press the home button and ask 'Alexa'. You can enjoy hundreds of movies, TV shows, songs, Kindle ebooks you can even have a text- to-speech narrator, who will read the book to you! How AWESOME is that? I can't say enough about this tablet. I love it. It has Netflix, Facebook, HBO and Spotify. Prime members get unlimited access to so many things at no additional cost. I would highly recommend this tablet to anyone! It seems to have brought us into a different venue. if not just a tablet anymore, it now has Alexa and she'll show you how to navigate through this tablet. From one app to another just by speaking. It comes in a variety of colored covers. But this is not a tablet case. If you want a tablet that is completely covered, front and back, you will have to buy a case separately. The case that comes with your Kindle Fire is just the back side of the case it does not cover the front. [...] Thank you for reading my review.
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