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Fussy and not for the older generation, Can't even understand how to register the Fire. I'm returning it. | Setup |
Beware it lasted 1 month., I use my tablet exclusively for reading my Kindle books. Just after the return window closed the tablet stopped charging. If you purchase this tablet I recommend purchasing the extended warranty. Very expensive reading experience. Very, very disappointed. | Battery |
Glitchy freezes, This tablet freezes frequently will not load some apps. It will not recognize the scan-disc 128gb disc that was purchased with it, giving an error message frequently until disc was removed. We own multiple tablets and this one seems to be junk. | SD |
I recently purchased one and the screen don't don't work., The screen don't work. And it has been recently purchased. How can I return it? Thanks. | Battery |
Not Worth The Money, First and Last Amazon Tablet I'll ever Own, it's the Worst going Battery Life Sucks, Apps Suck you need to Buy Everything. Android Tablets are Better and Google Play has all the Apps you need for Free. | Apps |
Screen has went bad at 4 days, Only had the tablet 4 days, used for maybe a couple hours total, and the screen has already gone out. | Battery |
Awful tablet for 2022, I honestly can't decide if this is worth keeping considering I only paid $64. This would be a quality tablet in 2016, but definitely not 2022. I was excited when I saw the price point and the “30% faster” headline but this is anything but “fast”. Fire HD8 plus should not be laggy, or slow all things considered. It shouldn't feel clunky, like android phone did years ago. The screen is something you'd see on a MyTouch 3G phone. The processor is slow as hell. There's a slight delay when opening apps and sometimes there are errors when updating apps. This is good for a child, but not a grown adult. Spend the extra money and get an iPad or a more expensive Android tablet. Edit: To add insult to injury, the audio on this device is absolutely trash. It's so quiet you'd think it's whispering even though volume is all the way up. The developers should have reconsidered this before releasing it. At least add more modern hardware to be somewhat competitive. There is almost no purpose to this other than to piss me off every time I turn it on. It's nearly unusable. Changed from 3 stars to 1. | FOS |
Garbage, Device won't turn on or charge after 2 days of use. All information is saved inside the tablet and cannot be reset and amazing expects it returned. Garbage product. | Battery |
Fire OS 8 does not support Fire TV, This is my 4th or 5th kindle. I'm generally happy with them until I lose them or crack the screen. Unfortunately, my newest kindle, 12th gen, runs Fire OS 8 and does not support Fire TV which is a significant portion of what I use my kindle for. Support says this will be fixed by a new version of the Fire TV App, but gives no date when that will happen. Fire OS 8 is five months old already and a fix has not been released, so I'm not going to hold my breath. Probably would have been better off if I had bought my new Kindle at Best Buy or Target since they still have the 10th units. Would have saved $10 and a lot of aggravation. | Apps |
Worthless Waste of Time and Money, I originally bought this tablet thinking Amazon has got to be better than some knock off right? Wow was I wrong. The app store has NOTHING. Literally this is only good enough to be a kids tablet. Don't even think about using it for anything relevant! No cricuit design space. No decent games. Extremely limited selection of productivity tools... Literally you have a mini TV and that's about it. I bought this thinking Oh deal and known company. Nope..... Better off getting something with the Google play store already installed. I am unbelievably PISSED off at how crappy this thing is. Why even bother pushing this kind of crap when a cheapo unknown at least has apps. This thing won't even allow me to set the weather to my location! I have worked with all sorts of tablets and this has got to be the WORST. It's apple level bad... No wait at least apple has a decent apps store... | Apps |
you get what you pay for, This is a good tablet for $50 if that's what you want to spend. You get what you pay for. I had mine for about an hour before I'm sending it back. screen was glitching, & apps freezing. Several of my most used apps that i went for right away aren't available. probably ok for movies or kids games but not what i wanted it for. | Apps |
Shuts itself down constantly, I bought this tablet at Best Buy in August. It has begun to shut itself down over and over. It is far too frustrating to express. I have had Kindle Fire tablets for years. This was never a problem with the others. Fixes found in the Internet don't work. | Battery |
This can't be right!, ISSUE #1. The charge cable won't stay in at the tablet end. Can't put it in so it stays and charges. Keeps falling out. ISSUE #2. The slot for the SIM card, card won't go in all the way. There is a very tiny latch where the SIM card goes in, at the top of the Kindle. I guess, when closed, it pushes the SIM card in to allow it to make contact. The only way mine works is if I manually hold that latch down, then I got it connected. But as soon as I let go of that little door the SIM card pops up and loses contact, becomes disconnected from Kindle. Its like its spring-loaded. As long as I hold down that door it's registering with my kindle. But when I let go of that door the SIM card pops back out of the slot. Strange setup, to say the least, even when it works. A door? Really? Are we trying to hold in a couple of excited horses? I'm suspecting that my kindle 8" (2022) was man-handled when a previous owner couldn't figure out how it worked, forced it and then repackaged and retuned it, and I'm the new owner. Very unhappy, because of issurs #1+ #2 as mentioned above, but also because I put the screen protector I purchased on before I did anything else. Right out of the box. These protectors, which I have put on all three of my older Kindles, are finicky to put on. Getting a pristine shield with no wrinkles, no fingerprint, no bubbles and no dust stuck under the shield, which then show up as black spots and bubbles forever is definitely a finicky job. My old 8" tablet has two of these darn black dots which are distracting, especially when you're reading. So yea, I put the shield on before I did anything elese. Practice makes perfect, experience teaches, sometimes. Put the shield on before you do anything, don't touch the screen for sure. So this time right out of box should gave me a perfect clean screen for under the shield. And I was right. Not a wrinkle, no bubbles, not a dust mote to be stuck there for ever. But now I did this for nothing! Since I am returning this 8", (exchanging it for a 'perfect' model) I'm losing one of the shields that I purchased and they ain't free, ya know! So, no, I'm not a happy camper! I have read every review written on this model (newest 8", 12th gen. 2022 model), and there is not one review that says that there have been problems with the charging cord not staying in, or/and the with SIM card (bought the one Amazon recommended) not wanting to stay in it's designated slot. So I have to assume that this is a singular issue with just this one tablet. So back it goes. I have three other Kindle, the very first 6" model, a 7" and an 8". I been using my 1st gen 6" in the kitchen to look up recipes, the 8" for reading and 7" for everything else. I'm going to move the older 8" to the kitchen, 2" bigger screen will help. Amazingly, everything else in this new Kindle was great. It was already charged so I checked out a few things that some people had problems with and had been mentioned in some of the reviews. The system is identical to my older 8". My books are there, and the one I am reading right now was exactly at the page where I left off on the old Kindle. Of course, after nine years using Kindle I already know my way around the operating systems. If you are new to the Kindle operating system, just click on Setting Information, a white wheel you find on the Home Screen. There you can get much of the answers and a good help system too. It's where you can change some of the settings to suit you, like size of type, email address, location, time Zone, and so much more, it's all there. its also where you are accessing your SIM card, if you're using one. Look under Storage. Do some exploring, you can always undo if you change your mind. Just take your time.... | Charging |
travel back in time to 2005, Terrible interface and App Store is a joke. Can't watch half of the videos and most apps don't work like YouTube TV. Feels like this product was made in 2005. Such a joke. | Apps |
Slowest Kindle fire yet, I bought this on sale specifically to play games on. It boasts a 30% faster processor and yet every game force closes. | FOS |
Garbage- Wi-Fi connects and disconnects, The Is tablet will not stay connected to Wi-Fi… not a router or signal issue as the other 15+ Wi-Fi devices in my house work just fine | WiFi |
Not impressed, I bought this to replace my nearly 10-year old Kindle Fire HD but this device is unfathomably slower than my old device and the build quality feels significantly cheaper. You get what you paid for, I guess, but again I'm pretty sure I paid the same or less for my old Fire HD which is still somehow a better device than this new model. | FOS |
Good deal, but peace of CRAP!, It was a good deal, because it worked for a few months. But not even a year after I bought it it started glitching and freezing up a lot. It wouldn't let me on any games. I tried everything but it wouldn't work so I just decided to stop using it. it turned into a piece of crap. | FOS |
Plenty of issues with OS since startup., The tablet arrived in great condition, might as well say new. My complaint, however, is that there are several issues I've been ironing out. First, when I attempted to create a profile for my mother whom this is intended for, it caused numerous problems. I am unable to make her the primary and only profile on the device. Second, I installed some basic/essential apps such as Facebook and YouTube. The apps will not display an icon on the home screen. The same goes for any other apps installed through the app store. Finally, when trying to sync a profile with an existing one on Amazon, in this case my mother's profile, it will not run its course and be successful. Amazon's Android skin is pretty bad and has been so since its inception. It's very clunky, overly complex for straightforward tasks, and packed with bloatware! Please take a cue from Samsung and dial it all back a ton like they did and make a custom Android UI that is equal if not better than the stock UI. Samsung hit a home run with One UI, while you have remained in the bottom of the barrel. I'll be more than likely to return it and buy a tablet from the aforementioned brand. | FOS |
Defective will not charge, Had one day will not charge sending it back | Battery |
Worst, This Hass to be the worst tablet ever!! I have the 2020 model and it is perfect. I've gone through two of these and both of them just keep shutting down through my games. My purpose for purchase was to play a game and I can't even do that because it just keeps shutting down in the middle of my game. I play the same game on my 2020 model, and it doesn't happen at all not once not ever. | FOS |
Pretty bad, There are SOOO many apps you'll never use that you can never get rid of unless you plug your tablet into your computer. Some settings just freeze, some apps just freeze. This is a pretty garbage experience, I'm blown away that people are giving these positive reviews. | FOS |
Still trash…, I've had 5 fire tablets. All that I call my “s*** tab” I really only use these when traveling/reading or needing a break from my Apple notification. If you don't care about screen quality, feel, Battery life this thing is fine. It's cheap doesn't break to easily and works. If you actually want a tablet for anything productive this ain't it. | FOS |
A device with ads, Picked up for kids. While setting up the Home Screen is just click bait with ads. Lock Screen even puts trailers on it. Apple while expensive at least makes a device that does not slam you with ads. Amazon contacted me and was helpful with getting rid of recommended content. If they didn't help it would have been a rabbit hole to find. One big downfall is to get rid of the locked screen ads you have to pay $20 dollars. So that's $40 added to my purchase and a big downfall. If I would have known that I would not have purchased. Should have done more homework on tablets! Apple would have been a more expensive buy but you know what you get with it. | Ads |
Trash. Email app *doesn't work with Gmail*, I bought this to replace my Fire HD 10 that's a few years old because I wanted a newer device that could use a USB-C port. It came already registered (nice!) and I started setting it up. The first thing? Set up the Mail app. I've been using the Mail app on Fire tablets since 2015 when I got my first Fire tablet. But I can't get past the first step of specifying my gmail address--the connection is refused by Google because the request is invalid. I factory reset this device, twice, worked with Customer Service for two hours, but in the end, the Amazon-created, Amazon-designed, and Amazon-installed Mail app is *broken*. I am unbelievably disappointed with Amazon, and surprised at how Amazon does not have any answers. | FOS |
Poor quality, It is frozen screen stripes | Display |
It annoys me more than it does anything else., This thing is very sluggish. When I turn the screen on it acts like a pc from the mid 2000's where you have to wait for the ancient hard drives to spin up. It's kind of like using an elderly person to watch content on. I bought it mainly to watch videos on while I have downtime at work, and it doesn't even do that well. Sometimes it will refuse to update apps so that I can actually use them. The app selection in the store is very poor. I hate the poor excuse for a youtube app that is available. After a while I just went through the process of installing the Google play store to get what I actually wanted on it. I really regret buying this tablet!!! I want my Ipad back! | FOS |
WARNING: Security and Privacy issues, Edited after I got a response from Amazon Amazon calls this process Frustration-Free Setup https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GMPKVYDBR223TRPY It appears that once you have an Amazon product set up, then other Amazon products can use that to connect automatically. This does not change my opinion of security and privacy, but at least it's not a secret Amazon plan. Back to original review ... I bought and gifted this. It was opened in my house, powered up. Then it automatically connected to the network WITHOUT me entering my Wi-Fi password AND then said hello to my first name and asked the Amazon password without me telling it my name or email. This implies that Amazon spying is very intense, able to connect to my network and know who I am before I can do anything. Even when the device is not for me but gifted to another person in my house. Aside from the security and privacy issues, this device is wider than the previous 7" devices and can no longer be held comfortably in our hands, defeating the purpose of a 7" device. | FOS |
Fire 10 tablet, I got this tablet for an extra family tablet. When the screen timed out and locked, advertisements popped up. I have tried for an hour to get back into the tablet but I can't. All I can do is watch ad after ad or go into my Alexa devices. That's it. There is no home button or option to renter the tablet and no way to close the adds. This is not a family friendly interface. Probably going to return it. | Ads |
Left it out by mailbox, Love the tablet but poor delivery Amazon always leaves my stuff on porch by door this time he left a tablet out by mailbox on the ground so it can be stolen very disappointed | Delivery |
Should have just got a regular tablet, I tablet I can barely control, after on day it did an update and now my home screen is them pushing a 100 stupid phone games. And it somehow doesn't have have the apps I use for streaming. If ur looking for a tablet to stream video, just get a regular tablet, fire tablet not worth the savings. And now it's glitching out | Apps |
Long buyer, no more!!, I have bought these tablets over and over for my kiddos over the years who have broken them (many times not their fault) I decided to buy the newer versions since it was 50% off, and wanted them to be colors other than the same black ones they've had. I purchased a denim and a lavender color. BOTH tablets have now quit on us!!!! Literally just shut off, and don't turn back on. Not caused by spillage, or dropping, or low battery, NOTHING!! I have tried so many ways to get them back on, followed so many different instructions, nothing. Is it an issue with anyone else??? Is it only on the other colored versions??? Never had a problem with the black ones. I LOVE these tablets, they're easy to use for my kids, it was always going to be my go to tablet for them!!! I'm so disappointed and very upset to be out on money. It's ridiculous. | Battery |
Very slow to load, Poor quality, kinda heavy to hold. . | FOS |
This thing keeps glitching and it's brand new, [[VIDEOID:6183356ab591d8884d0b412aa0a0c2e7]] Has problems running Roblox | FOS |
Don't waste your time, I wanted a tablet mostly for the Kindle app so I purchased the refurbished Fire HD hoping to save some money. At first glance the tablet looked brand new so I had high hopes that it would work out for me. After navigating through the device I really did not like the overall format, and found it a bit confusing and not at all intuitive not to mention the stupid advertisements that popped up during startup. After using it for about an hour the screen went completely black and after that never did come back to life. What a disappointment! Save yourself some time and frustration by staying away from this tablet and get yourself a new iPad instead. I got a new one for only $270. | Battery |
Not happy with the last two kindle fires that I have gotten., This kindle fire jumps around from page to page. That is what the last one was doing which is why I wanted a new one. I can be reading something and it will go to another place. I shut it down like you are supposed to do but it still does the same thing. When I am erasing something, the page enlarges and I have to tap for a while to get it back. Very displeased with it. Never had this with past kindles. | FOS |
Unbelievable, I bought this for my 10 year old son. This is a piece of crap!!! Touchscreen barely works. I'll never buy anything like this again from Amazon. I wasted my money. The screen goes dark while you're trying to use it. I have. It set for 30 minutes to go off. Extremely BAD product. . | FOS |
can't play games on it., no USB port. unable to play most games on it. It's not for adults... Maybe for a kid?? | Apps |
Was great now frustrating, The reason I'm giving this only 2 stars is I've only had this for 8 months, it took a little while but I got used to it then it decided to start randomly turning itself off, so frustrating!!! Once it turns off it's hard to get it to turn back on immediately. The screen quality, battery life & touch screen are great but if I'm using this for work & it randomly turns off I can loose what I'm doing & have to start over, NOT OK!!! | Battery |
No Help, Just took it out of the box. Was looking for a user guide or some form of help getting started. The link to the user guide didn't work. Fire Tablet Help: User Guide: "We're sorry. We can't find the page you are trying to reach." The only user guide I could find was for sale on Amazon for $3.95. It looks to be a lot more detailed than what I'm looking for. What kind of a nickle-diming deal is this? Looks like Amazon is trying to get purchasers to inadvertently sign up for charged services. I've never purchased a significant electronic device that didn't include a user guide or a way to access one electronically. It's not the $3.95 charge for something a lot more comprehensive than I need, it's the crass nature of the deal. | Setup |
Arrived completely damaged, Unfortunately this item arrived completely damaged after opening the shipping box it came in. | Delivery |
Delay in respond commands and error message constantly., [[VIDEOID:a4dc1770e586954f316086f18bc096d2]] I just receive the product and less than 24h it shows a delay when your press the command till have it done. Also when i go to "Device Dashboard" it constantly appear: "An error has occurred. Please try again later". I paid more to do not have advertising but on the other hand i have this message pushing me all the time. Last point but not less important, this alexa tablet do not support "portuguese" | FOS |
DO NOT BUY, You cannot turn off sleep on thr tablet. You can only select between 15 seconds and 30 minutes. . good luck watching or listening to anything over 30 minutes. you have to touch the screen or it will shut off. Worst tablet I have ever owned. | FOS |
Horrible spend extra money, This is one of the worst tablets I've ever had I've had it for 3 days and I wish I wouldn't of wasted my time purchasing! You can get rid of the ads the employees can't walk you through simple thing like how to get the button to show up I'm literally restarting it every time I have to return to the Home Screen | Ads |
SO DISAPPOINTED, I have owned an Amazon tablet for years. I've liked them so much that I have given them as gifts as well. So for the first time ever my not too old Amazon Fire HD 10 crashed, died, whatever but it stopped working. I traded it in and bought the new Amazon Fire 10. I've never ever been more disappointed with my purchase. I can be watching something on Amazon Prime and poof like a long commercial pops up, I can't figure out how to get out of that screen, whatever I was watching is long gone. The tablet doesn't remember where they interrupted my movie so it's not like I can resume where it was interrupted. I have Prime, Netflix, Peacock, etc, etc. Sometimes I don't even remember what streaming channel I was on. So I have movies out there I never ever finish watching. This is just one of several problems with this new version. I wish I had kept my old Fire 10 and just had it fixed. Oh my how frustrating. I still have time to return this so I just might; in the meantime think about it before you purchase this. It's also smaller than the previous HD 10. | Ads |
A horrible product, This is really a terrible product. I bought this and an Echo Dot kids for the playroom music device thinking set up and voice control would be easy, but that has not been the case. Trying to pair the devices together almost never works. The rare times I get it to work, it stops working once it is not in active use. Then it is hit or miss (mostly miss) on connecting again. The device is the opposite of user friendly, it seems like an insane person chose how the device works. I really wish I had not wasted my money. As soon as my kids stop trying to use it, I am going to smash it into a million pieces just for the satisfaction. | FOS |
Stopped opening after a year, Very little use and now the screen won't stay awake long enough for me to get into it. Closes out instantly. Screen was hard to see as it's so glossy so had to order a cover | FOS |
Doesn't work with quality headphones, like my Bowers & Wilkins PX7's, Just spent almost 2 hours with Amazon tech-support to find out that Amazon fire tablets do not work with quality headphones. When I tried to pair my Bowers&Wilkins, I continue to get error message that it requires a pin or pass key however quality headphones do not have pins or pass keys. It is what it is, it's Amazon's issue not allowing items they sell (B&W Headphones) to be paired with their Fire tablets. | HW |
Worst purchase I've ever made on Amazon, [[VIDEOID:a0ef4200cd2a61d7091ced8b0299080e]] This has been the worst experience I have had with Amazon, I do not see it possible that a tablet that claims to be certified for refubrished by the same company that manufactures them, arrives defective to its end user at the first turn on, apart from the terrible service provided by the customer service staff, always transferring me, sending information by mail that does not even correspond to the device of which I was complaining, all very bad. Apart now having to go through the return process and wait for the money to be reflected, that really annoying, that terrible and disappointing all this, trusted you amazon, or to say that it was in the shipment that something happened, the box arrived intact, the device is intact, not a scratch but the reconditioning work, It never happened apparently, it seems to be a scam! | Refurb |
Not compatible with google play. you can not download YouTube kids, you would have to spend a lot of time trying to download googleplay, but it is not easy at all | Apps |
Too small, I bought for my oldest sister | HW |
Needs more ram. 3 gigs is half of what it needs. Should have at least 6 gigs, Word well. Just hate the fact i could have gotten it brand new just a week or two later. They really need to let people know if things are going on sale soon, and not fleece folks like some money hungry company...oh wait... | HW |
Doesn't come close to an iPad, Garbage | HW |
Not an iPad, Compared to an iPad it's garbage | HW |
Not sure if faulty item, I am ready to throw this tablet through a window. Have had issues from very beginning. Should have addressed them at that time. Gets worse and worse daily to the point it can take me minutes to get to designated site because item either shuts off or go back to factory installed page time after time. I bought one for my husband for Christmas and if his is like this it WILL go back immediately. My son and husband are tech savvy and can't solve these problems. Is there a way tablet can be sent back for repair? At this time wouldn't recommend this product!!!! | Battery |
Extremely difficult to set up., Extremely difficult to set up. Touch function doesn't work. The voice view doesn't turn off. | Setup |
Save your money, Hate it! Nothing like my Samsung tablet. Truly wish I never bought it. | HW |
An absolute lemon… returned and bought a Samsung tablet, An absolute lemon… returned and bought a Samsung tablet. It was slow and was not compatible with an app that it was supposed to be compatible with | Apps |
Has needed full reset multiple times in 1 month, We have gotten fire tablets for about 6 years and have loved it until now. The newest one we got in mid October 2022, has already needed a full reset multiple times from things not working properly on it. I shouldn't have to do a factory reset multiple times for my son to be able to play a game multiple times in a one month span. This is ridiculous. | FOS |
slow, terrible os, really any apps other than the amazon ones are useless. what a waste of money | FOS |
Just does not load all the time, I am sooo disappointed ! This is my fourth Kindle Fire. I have loved using this device for the past I don't know how many years. It has been my right arm for business as well as pleasure. Suddenly a few months ago various pages would not load. It seems to be defaulting to the games app page constantly. Of course I called tech support and they attempted to help me fix it but ultimately the problem loading pages returned. Honestly I had used this particular kindle so very much that I figured hey nothing last forever right? So I just ordered a new one. Same version. Same everything. To my disappointment in a very short period of time it began to have the same problems that my last one had. Unfortunately I can not return it because I loaded it with my personal information as soon as I received it. | Apps |
Disappointed with it, [[VIDEOID:95debcc1702648a8fda65ba8c460abb9]] The Amazon system so annoying ,, keep give ads all the time and on the stop screen ,, some figures you can't control ,, the cameras quality so bad for the promising,, and u can't download many apps because its Amazon system ,, i think like it at the first because the hd color's,, but u not allowed to do what u want u allowed to do whta Amazon want | Apps |
Defective screen, I just got this today. I am not sure but I think my screen has a defect. The bottom 1 1/2 inches has tiny lines that flicker. Its hard to see to type words because the last row is covered by these lines. | Display |
Kindle died today!, The device worked great until today Nov. 19. How convenient it dies just past the return date! I am so sick of Amazon junk being dumped on loyal customers! | Battery |
Consistent problems with this., It's nice when it works as intended, but it has weird issues. On two separate occasions, movies I've downloaded have been mysteriously wiped out. On the first occasion I had downloaded almost all of the movies we own, all downloads successfully showed the check mark to indicate they were available for off-line viewing, and then after turning if off and on again, most of the movies were gone. It's time consuming to download a lot of movies, and I had to do it again. Then after working fine for several weeks I tried to download a new movie I had purchased. It took much longer than usual but otherwise seemed fine. But again, it had somehow wiped out all but about six of the movies. So once again I am having to download all of these. That's far and away the biggest problem. Maybe I just got a lemon. The other repeated issue is that most of my downloaded movies appear with two icons. The icon gets duplicated. If I remove one of the duplicates, both icons disappear. There's no way to end up with one icon per movie. I chatted with online support and they couldn't help. That's a nuisance I can live with but shouldn't have to. | Apps |
No instructions how to operate it. So I refunded it!, No instructions came with it! So I sent it back for a refund! | Setup |
dies in 5 months, This is my 3rd Kindle because I like them a lot. . problem with this latest one, it would not boot up, display anything just back screen at 5 months of use. Waste of money and not a good show for Amazon products. Tried to get assistance or get it returned/replaced online help just kept throwing me to ask the community no help at all. Oh and the unit was fully charged just before it never came up again just in case that thought was on your mind | Battery |
I'd buy it again, So my kindle Fire 10 all of a sudden stopped working when the new kindles came out on the market. The same actual week. I'm not thinking it's a coincidence. I tried everything from running the battery down to all kinds of craziness youtube appears to say works. I'm giving it 3 stars because although it's faster and smoother than the previous version I don't like how it handles the Micro SD card and Kindles continued purposeful obtuse programing to make it hard to upload books you didn't buy from them or read books that aren't from the kindle store. ... But I'd buy it again because in the last 8 years or more of owning kindles I've been a book junkie reading 30 or more books a year. If you are buying purely to read books get a kindle white instead. The fire is better for all-round looking at the internet, apps, movies, and reading. | SD |
Charger got hot while it was charging the fire tablet, The fire tablet is great but the charger is not so great The charger felt hot to the touch after I unplugged it from the surge protector. Charger still feel warm a hour later. Lesson I learned from this is to never leave the room while the kindle is charging. | Charging |
Cheap during Black Friday, good for browsing, but that's all it has going for it, My old 2018 Fire 10 was losing its ability to charge, so, with Black Friday, I got another Fire. I use it primarily for browsing in bed (although it's heavy, not that any 10" screens are that light) and playing white noise for sleep, and it worked just fine for that. However, I didn't look closely and picked up a Lavender one, so make sure you're getting the right color. For half-off, the hardware is good compared to other tablets at that price. The trade-in of an old tablet for Amazon credit is a good perk, effectively further lowering the price. However, the limited non-browser functions (eg. the USB-C port doesn't support most USB-C functions, like video out), default inability to use Google Play, and inability to move files (eg. photos) from internal to external SD storage makes this tablet not particularly useful outside browsing and playing media. | SD |
Came with screen damage, Has damage to the screen noticed light spot on a black background. | Display |
My expectations were low, but holy crap, I wasn't expecting a great screen for the price, but I can honestly say that this is the worst screen I've seen in over 15 years. The dot pitch makes reading on it actively unpleasant. I can completely understand why they're trying to distance this from their "Kindle" brand. Otherwise? The build quality seems pretty good, it's a comfortable size for fitting into a jacket pocket or holding in one hand if your hands are a bit large, the battery life is respectable, and the specs are generally pretty good for the price - aside from the internal storage on the 16gb version being a severely limiting factor, as many apps can't be installed to an SD card and the OS takes up most of that on its own. Still, for something which is primarily used for looking at things, it's pretty terrible to use for looking at things. | Display |
Most disappointing purchase ever!, I have had an e reader for 8 years and it recently died so I was looking for a new one. I saw this and thought it would be a great replacement. I was wrong. This uses only Amazon apps. There is no access to Google Play. I cannot get any access to the 150 books that I have previously purchased from Barnes and Noble. I also found out that while there was a work around for this problem in previous Fire tablets, that hole has been plugged for this version. I will be returning this and hoping Santa brings me something better for Christmas. Smh | Apps |
Does not sync, We have two Alexa devices in our house. This is the third we added to our wifi. It could not figure out our location settings or sync with the other Alexa devices. I spent over two hours chatting with the help team and found that the device was defective. Major bummer and huge ding against my first refurbished purchase. No not recommended. | FOS |
Great Amazon Advertising Device, If you want to play games and listen to books it's probably ok but it's main function is to sell amazon apps and games. First screen you see when you turn it on is a game ad. Playing a game? Good luck, there are so many ads it takes forever. Most games require tokens, yep, you have to buy them. I'd send it back to QVC if I had kept the box. | Ads |
Awful product, I really hate this tablet. I can't do anything on it. It constantly freezes, or gets stuck "loading". I wish I would have returned it. | FOS |
Kept going back to lock screen and doesn't have as many apps for my son as the Galaxy, I have no complaints with the screen, battery, or storage. It's with the tablet itself. Everytime my son went to play Roblox it would not work and go back to the lock screen and then freeze. Half of the apps my son had on his tablet I could not get on the Fire tablet. I've realized the Galaxy Tablet is more functional and has more contents for my son. I returned it the day I got it. It frustrated me so bad. | FOS |
What SD Card?, I loved my old Kindle but it's screen was starting to flicker so I thought "50% off? Why not upgrade?" The Kindle itself is okay. Original internal memory sucks. This one refuses to even acknowledge that I put an SD card in most of the time. I have tried everything to get it to work and it keeps happening. So I have almost nothing on this tablet because the memory is always running low. I wish I had just returned it and tried a different one when I had a chance. | SD |
So slow., I had this for all of a day before returning. I wanted a tablet to stream movies and videos, but didn't want to spend hundreds on an iPad. Figured the Amazon tablet would be a good substitute. It was so slow, would say I didn't have internet connection, but yet all my other devices on internet worked. I couldn't even download apps or h even get through one 20 minute episode. I would rate 0 if I could. Save your money or invest in a iPad | FOS |
Can't even download my game, They were supposed to load my account on this tablet. Nothing was set up! I have been trying for 4 hours to get my game on, but it keeps saying it is being prepared. It is slow, I thought it would be better than my 8-inch, but so far it is a dud! | Apps |
Just another Amazon product made to sell you stuff, Most apps I use on phone so I thought a tablet would be better. Well it only works for Amazon apps. Which I found out that it wasn't for 99% of apps I use. So I hung it in kitchen wall for cooking. | Apps |
Fire HD 10, This is not worth the money. Nothing more than an overpriced book. Has nothing to offer even internet capabilities. Very constrained. | WiFi |
Not able to download apps I personally want, Got the tablet today. Bought it because it was cheap and just needed for personal use. Was ok, ran fine but what I COULD NOT DO was download apps that I personally wanted. Won't let me download Google Duo or Duck Duck Go. Also the contacts does not have access to direct video calling. It's an ok product but I see why people really like apple products. | Apps |
Stopped charging., Only had since august. We only use it for car rides. It won't charge past 1%. Don't recommend. Especially since they won't replace it or refund me if I ship it back. | Battery |
QVC Said this Tablet was new but it is a 2021!!!! Having lots of problems with it!!!!!!!!!, The instructions were horrible. I asked 5 other people I know before writing this review. They agreed with me that this tablet is either not working right OR is a very poor design. I called QVC once for help but all they said was to send it back. They were NO HELP is trying to find out if perhaps I was just no using it correctly. I set it aside and then came back to it on different days ... in hopes that if it is me, I would stumble upon the correct way to get the tablet to work right. I tried different things and methods to get things to work. I have wasted a lot of time and effort on this tablet. I am sending it back. I just wish I had not wasted so much of my time AND now I hope QVC returns the money I paid! I am hoping for the best but expecting the worst. | Battery |
Slow tablet, Bought this for my extra apps and for a family tablet. Takes for ever to download games and apps. | WiFi |
This has ads and I HAD TO PAY EXTRA MONEY FOR NO ADS, please remove the ADs! Thank you!, I paid extra money to not have ads, but you left the ads on there. You need to fix your problem. | Ads |
Help, it's not turning on, This product is under 6 month old and it start acting up in the 4 months. It's not turnt on. Amazon. I need help!! Kindly contact me | Battery |
Liked it while it worked, Well it's been a year and a week since my purchase and wouldn't you know. . it just died. Just shut down while using it. It started to work again and then it just shut down again | Battery |
It continually shuts off, Keeps shutting off | Battery |
Appstore is terrible and tablet is nerfed compared to standard Android OS, The Appstore barely has any apps compared to the standard Google Play store. You can side load that, but it's tricky and annoying to get working properly. Honestly a standard Android tablet would be way better. | Apps |
doesn't work, its BS . i return mine . don't waste your time | Battery |
Are you ready to buy one every 2 years?, I purchased my first Fire Tablet almost 2 years ago to the day . It started having problems at about the 1 1/2 year point and 'died' at 2 years (would not hold a charge and yes I Googled to see what 'tricks' could be done). Believe it or not Amazon said that the 'life' of this product according to their technicians was 2 to 3 years at best, nothing they can do. You'll have to buy a new one....Wow! I am handicapped and use Amazon a lot and have a basically very positive experience in my dealings with them and the products I purchase. However, when an electronics product barely lasts 2 years,(it is only guaranteed for 1 year) it brings new meaning to 'planned obsolescence'. I live on a fixed income. The Prime membership usually works to my benefit. Since I read a great deal, Kindle Unlimited is great BUT if there is no other financial benefit, shopping around for a tablet with a longer life expectancy might be worth doing. | Battery |
Defective tablet, The tablet I received was defective. I contacted customer service only to be given the runaround. This has been happening for 2 months. The only suggestion they have given me is to restart it. Which every person on earth knows to do. I am extremely disappointed in Amazon's customer service and their lack of care at the issue. It is disgusting. | Battery |
Terrible., My first Fire Tablet. So, brand new out of the box (well, refurbished), and the very first app I tried to launch--coincidentally the first app on the home screen, prominently displayed top left--is the "Shop Amazon" app. So what happens when I press the button? Do I get a beautiful shopping experience? NOPE. It redirects to the browser and displays an error message that the app is no longer supported. Seriously? This isn't some obscure third party app; it's literally the flagship Amazon app on an Amazon-branded device...and it doesn't work! Great job, engineers. Way to strike out on "first impressions." Again, this is the latest generation device, fresh out of the box. Lol. Next I went to update the device. Turns out there is an O/S update. Maybe that will fix it, right? Nope. Did the update, and the app still will not run. To make things even more hilarious (or insulting, I guess), there is no way to delete the app or even hide it from showing up on the home screen. Again, the "Amazon" app on an Amazon device is a dud and there's nothing the customer can do about it. What an absolute joke. | Apps |
Not a fan, If a person with common sense would have designed the interface, it would be 5 stars. Picture is amazing. This has hit the wall a few times now--yes, I through it--but just keeps working. The one before hit the wall many times and just keeps going. Only bought this one for my mom but she just hated it. It's got to be one of the most unintuitive products i have ever used, Stop hiring super-brains with no common sense and just get one person to explain where it went so bad... | FOS |
Don't buy Amazon sensors, I got this a year ago . It worked fine I downloaded OAN live And it worked good all the way up until election day Then the OAN app Stop working . I called Amazon support and they insisted That it was the makers of the app that was the problem. So I called OAN live And they said That they were working on it But apparently the problem With Amazon products only Because the app works on everything else. So my conclusion is Don't buy this For Amazon we'll just block stuff they don't want you to see. I just got a Samsung Galaxy Tablet That's bigger than the Amazon one And the OAN live app works great on the Samsung Galaxy tablet. So avoid the fire tablet at all costs | Apps |
Has never worked. Now replacement window has passed., Always turns off randomly and never gets charged. Please please replace it refund | Battery |
Disappointed, The screen constantly goes to sleep while i'm using it, apps don't run in the background how they're supposed to, and sometimes it decides to just not charge. Extremely slow response times from the screen as well. | FOS |
A waste of money, One of the worst purchases I hav end made from Amazon. The internet engine stinks...s as he your money...Silk sucks!!! | FOS |