Amazon Fire HD8 vs Fire 7

2018-03-27


Amazon’s Fire products are know well by quality and Amazon’s services. We had introduced Amazon Fire TV Stick. Today we are going to introduce Amazon’s tablets: Fire HD8 and Fire 7.

Fire HD8 and Fire 7 are tablets based on Android OS. However, Amazon created own Fire OS based on Android system to be better to take advantage of Amazon’s services and products. For example: To be convenient to read Amazon’s book, Fire OS provides specified Books tab page on home screen:

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Fire HD8 and Fire 7 came with same designed package box. Both in Amazon Orange color. Our two Fire tablets all have 16 GB storage.

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No matter Fire HD8 or Fire 7, content includes Fire tablet (7th Generation in 2018 Feb), Amazon 5W power adapter, USB charging cable and built-in rechargeable battery.

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Here is the screen and software comparison, Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 have very similar screen and home pages:

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The following is Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 back comparison, they are looked very similar just different size, but also Fire 7 has speaker holes but Fire HD 8 does not have .

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The thickness are seems the same.

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Since Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 have similar or same functions. like Reading book, we found Fire HD 8 is darker than Fire 7. We even set the maximum background brightness on Fire HD 8 but it is still darker than HD 7’s 70% brightness setting;

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Fire HD 8 Ports:

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Fire 7 Ports:

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The following is Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 major specification comparison:

**Fire 7** **Fire HD 8**
Display 7” 8”
Resolution 1024 x 600 (171 ppi) 1280 x 800 (189 ppi)
Storage 8 GB, 16 GB 16 GB, 32 GB
Battery Up to 8 hours Up to 12 hours
Audio Mono speaker, built-in microphone Dolby Atmos, dual stereo speakers, built-in microphone
Processor Quad-core 1.3 GHz Quad-core 1.3 GHz
Camera VGA Front-facing camera + 2 MP rear-facing camera with 720p HD video recording VGA Front-facing camera + 2 MP rear-facing camera with 720p HD video recording

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