From The Verge: Amazon’s flagship Fire tablet is getting the display fans have been calling for next month — and a much lower price. The company said today that its new Fire HD 10 tablet will come with a 10.1-inch, 1080p display, making it the first Amazon tablet to have a display of that caliber since the Fire HDX in 2013. Pricing for the tablet starts at $150, or $80 less than the previous entry-level price of $230. The new Fire HD 10 starts shipping the week of Oct. 11th.
The new Fire HD 10 has received improved components across the board. The tablet will run on a quad-core processor for the first time, improving the tablet’s speed by 30 percent, Amazon says. Average battery life has improved from eight hours to 10. Dual speakers have Dolby Atmos support. And it has 32GB of storage in the entry-level model, up from 16GB for the previous edition. (As before, a micro-SD card slot lets you expand storage by up to 256GB. A 64GB model is also available.)
The Fire tablet runs a modified version of Android that Amazon has bolstered with a handful of nice, company-specific features. The first, called “For You,” is a kind of dynamic app launcher that you access from the home screen. Swipe right and you’ll see icons representing the last thing you did on the device, whether it’s the book you were reading, the movie you were watching, or the music you were listening to. Other recent activities appear below.
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