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Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus: Wireless Charging

Posted on October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 By admin No Comments on Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus: Wireless Charging

Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus: Wireless Charging Amazon’s Fire tablet lineup has long been a favorite of ours as good,

simple value for the money. Each model uses a variant of the Android

OS that’s tilted heavily toward accessing Amazon services but is also good for streaming video and reading. The particularly important feature here is Show Mode, which makes the tablet act like a hands-free Echo Show smart display, displaying the time and responding to Alexa queries. The new gray Fire HD 8 Plus has more RAM, wireless charging, and a slightly higher- powered charger. That wireless charging, along with the optional charging dock, really makes a difference here, turning the Fire HD 8 Plus into an Echo Show you can take with you. The audio isn’t nearly as good as that of a real Echo Show, but that’s a fair trade-off for portability.

WIRELESS CHARGING
I’ve never been a big fan of wireless charging, but with this device, I get it. The HD 8 Plus works with a matching gray-plastic dock ($30 if sold with the tablet, $40 alone), which can prop the tablet up in a comfortable horizontal or vertical position. The dock becomes a key part of the tablet’s life as a quasi-Echo Show, sitting on your kitchen counter or by your bedside to give you the news, show recipes, or control your smart home throughout the day.

The dock’s wireless charging abilities mean that you can quickly and easily pick up the tablet to take it with you as backseat entertainment or toss it to a kid to use on the couch. Then you can pop it back in the dock without thinking, and as a result it’s almost always charged. This is an easier habit to form than remembering to plug your tablet in, and it’s a more aesthetically pleasing approach than just propping the tablet up on your kitchen counter and hoping for the best.

Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus

PROS
Inexpensive. Long battery life. Wireless charging. Excellent Alexa support.

CONS
Limited app compatibility.

BOTTOM LINE
Amazon’s Fire HD 8 Plus adds wireless charging to the low- cost tablet, likely changing its usage patterns.

NEARLY IDENTICAL PERFORMANCE
Like the Fire HD 8, the Plus runs Amazon’s Fire OS, based on Android 9.1. This OS is designed almost entirely for consuming Amazon content. While Amazon has an app store, it lacks many of the apps found in the Google Play Store, and often has older versions of apps. If you install apps that aren’t from Amazon’s store, such as ones from the APKPure store, they don’t appear in the main UI and can be hard to launch.

There will always be some intrepid folks who say that doesn’t matter, because you can hack the Google Play Store onto the tablet. But that’s an unsupported use, which Google can and periodically does break, where some apps work and some don’t, and where you end up as part of a cat-and-mouse game between Amazon and Google. It isn’t a great user experience. Your best bet is sticking to Amazon’s app store.

The HD 8 Plus uses the same MT8168A processor as the HD 8, but carries 3GB of RAM rather than 2GB. That didn’t seem to affect benchmarks at all. In PCMark, which simulates a variety of applications, we got 4,375 to the Fire HD 8’s 4,448. In the web-based Basemark test, we got 99.05 to the HD 8’s 101.32. Results on the GFXBench graphics tests were nearly identical as well.

In anecdotal testing, I could say that the UI appeared to be a little smoother than on the HD 8, but that might have been the placebo effect of knowing about the additional RAM. That said, it can’t hurt, especially if you’re using the tablet for gaming. But I wouldn’t consider it a deal-breaking feature, as I might when stepping up from the Fire 7’s 1GB to the Fire 8’s 2GB of memory.

The HD 8 Plus has the same battery and thus the same battery life as the HD 8. In our tests, that’s 9 hours and 25 minutes of video playback time—plenty of power for a full day. The Plus comes with a 9-watt charger instead of the 8’s 5-watt charger, but it still takes several hours to charge.

A BETTER KITCHEN COMPANION
Rarely does wireless charging make a difference in one of our reviews, but it does here. The Fire HD 8 Plus’s charging dock makes this tablet a much better bedside or kitchen companion than its lower-cost sibling—not only does it keep the tablet from sliding around, but you can pretty much pick up the device at any time and assume it will be charged. That’s really convenient.

The Fire HD 8 Plus’s major downside is the same as with the other Fire tablets: The software is devoted to making you consume Amazon content, and Amazon’s app store lacks many mainstream apps you can find in Google’s store. While you can hack Google’s store onto the tablet, it’s unsupported and may fail at any time, so I can’t recommend doing that.

This tablet’s $109.99 price is really $139.99 once you add the dock, but what Amazon offers here is enough for a lot of people. The HD 8 Plus makes a great little Echo Show-alike to display recipes or act as a fancy alarm clock, plus play videos for the kids, for instance. But if you need an inexpensive tablet with full Google Play app compatibility, check out Walmart’s Onn. 8-inch tablet instead.

The Fire HD 8 Plus’s charging dock makes it a much better bedside or kitchen companion than its lower- cost sibling.

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