Amazon's Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets go official alongwith a refreshed Kids Edition Tablet

By Abhinav Pathak on Sep 18, 2015 05:48 AM

Alongwith the Fire Tablet, Amazon also expanded its portfolio of the Fire HD tablet series. The new line-up now has the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets both running Android 5.0 Lollipop based FireOS 5 "Bellini."

Amazon Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10

Fire HD 8 comes with a 8-inch HD display while just as the name suggests Fire HD 10 gets a 10-inch HD display with 1200x800 pixels resolution, running on MediaTek's quad-core MT8135 chipset with PowerVR G6200 GPU. There's 1GB RAM onboard with expandable storage. Both run on the latest Fire OS 5 build based on Android Lollipop. Amazon has also added a 5MP rear camera on both the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 alongwith a 720p HD front camera.

Connectivity options include dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth. Battery-life on both is slated around 8 hours with mixed-usage although there is no mention of actual battery capacity.

The Amazon Fire HD 8 comes in black, magenta, tangerine, and blue colors priced at $149.99 for the 8GB storage variant and $169.99 for the 16GB variant. I would recommend going for the 16GB variant even though storage is expandable here. The Fire HD 10 comes in more classic color options, just black or white starting at $229.99 (about Rs. 15,100) for 16GB storage variant and $259.99 (about Rs. 17,100) for the 32GB variant. Both are available from Amazon.com starting today and ship September 30.

Amazon Fire Kids Tablet

The new refreshed Amazon Fire Kids Tablet is the same 7-inch Fire Tablet we talked about here but with a protective case around it. But that's not all, you also get 2-year warranty with this, over 20,000 curated age appropriate websites and YouTube videos with the Fire kids Tablet alongwith one-year subscription to Amazon FreeTime Unlimited.

Coming back to the specs once more, you have a 7-inch 1024x600 pixels display here, quad-core processor with 1GB RAM, 8GB expandable storage running Android 5.0 Lollipop based FireOS 5. You can get the Amazon Fire Kids Tablet for $99.99 with blue or pink case. It is also available on Amazon.com and ships September 30.