Fire HD 8 Tablet with Alexa, 8" HD Display, 16 GB, Black - with Special Offers Amazon

Designed for entertaintment READ Choose from millions of Kindle eBook and magazine titles that you won't be able to find anywhere else. Over 1 million titles are priced at $2.99 or less. Or read as much as you want with a Kindle Unlimited subscription for just $9.99 a month. Connect with the largest online community of book lovers on Goodreads. Read comfortably at night with Blue Shade, an exclusive Fire OS feature that automatically adjusts and optimizes the backlight for a more comfortable nighttime reading experience. Listen With millions of songs from thousands of artists, the Amazon Digital Music Store brings all your favorite music to your fingertips. Music you buy on your Fire tablet is saved to Your Music Library for free, and you can play or download it anytime. Unlock more music with Amazon Music Unlimited, just $7.99 per month for Prime members ($9.99 per month for non-Prime members). Audible offers more than 180,000 titles in audiobooks, including best sellers, romances, thrillers, and much more. Watch Enjoy all your favorite movies and TV shows on Amazon Video, Netflix, HBO NOW, Sling TV, and more. Discover hundreds of thousands of TV episodes and movies, plus fling Amazon Video content to your TV using Second Screen. Enhance your video experience with features you only get from Amazon, including On Deck for watching videos anywhere, ASAP for fast video streaming, and X-Ray to go behind the scenes of your favorite movies and TV shows while you watch. Watch downloaded videos anywhere with a Prime membership, Netflix plan, or Showtime subscription—on a plane, on vacation, in the car, or wherever you don't have a wireless connection. Play Fire tablets feature instant access to over 600,000 of the most popular free and best-selling games, social media, premium TV and movie provider apps, and so much more. Choose from top titles including Candy Crush Saga, Township, Mobile Strike, and more. Meet ALEXA Alexa on Fire tablets Alexa provides quick access to the entertainment you want, including music, games, audiobooks, and more. You can also ask Alexa questions, check your calendar, get news, find sports scores, and even control your smart home. All you have to do is press and ask. Be entertained Whether you’re looking for your favorite playlist or need a quick joke, you can ask Alexa. Just press and ask for a song, artist or genre, and stream directly over Wi-Fi. Alexa also provides voice control for Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and more. One press. Millions of possibilities. When connected to Wi-Fi simply press the home button for one second then ask. Alexa will respond to you and will even show visual responses to certain questions. Voice control your smart home Alexa works with devices such as lights, switches, thermostats, and more from SmartThings, Insteon, Nest, ecobee, and Wink. Switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the fan or change the temperature on your thermostat while reading in your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie—just press and ask. Everyday made easier Alexa on Fire tablets helps make every day easier. Just press and ask to set alarms and timers, check traffic, your calendar, to-do or shopping lists, and more. You can order millions of items with your voice, such as household and personal care products. Stay informed Now you can ask Alexa a question and get an immediate voice response. When you press and ask, Alexa can pull up your Flash Briefing, Wikipedia articles, news, sports scores, and more. Introducing For You Fire OS now includes For You, a dynamic and personalized page on the tablet home screen that makes it easy for customers to get back to reading, watching, listening, or playing—and to quickly find what's next. For You learns what you love to do on your tablet and then presents personalized recommendations across books, videos, songs, apps, and more. Get your weather, Prime photos, and more right from the For You home screen. Find the things you love easier Fire OS is the best entertainment experience on a tablet with quick access to the things you do most. The home screen includes dedicated content pages for books, games, and apps, video, music, audiobooks, and Newsstand. Powered by Amazon’s recommendations engine, you can quickly browse new books, movies, TV shows, music, apps, and games. Share content with Family Library Family Library links your Amazon account to that of your spouse or partner so you can easily share apps, games, audiobooks, and books, and it now allows Prime members to share their Prime Video content. Access your family's content across devices—both Amazon devices and free Amazon apps for other platforms, including iOS and Android. Enhance your viewing experience With ASAP (Advanced Streaming and Prediction), Amazon movies and TV episodes are ready for you to watch instantly. ASAP dynamically adapts to your viewing habits. On Deck automatically downloads Prime Video (for Prime members) and the first episodes of Amazon Original Series while your device isn’t in use, ensuring that there is always something new to enjoy instantly, even when offline. Integrated on-device tech support Screen Sharing brings Mayday-powered customer service to Fire tablets. Simply call customer service and Amazon experts can connect to your Fire tablet to co-pilot through features by drawing on your screen, walking you through how to do something yourself, or doing it for you—whatever works best. Access your entertainment across all devices Whispersync remembers how much you've watched, read, or listened to so you can pick up right where you left off, no matter which device you are using. Plus, with every Fire tablet, you get free, unlimited cloud storage for all your Amazon content including unlimited storage on photos you've taken with your Fire tablet.  Try Prime free for a month If you haven't tried Amazon Prime in the past, we'll give you a 30-day free trial. Experience what millions of members already enjoy—unlimited streaming of thousands of hit movies and TV episodes, ad-free access to over two million songs, over a thousand Kindle books, and Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items. Learn more Unlimited reading on any device Prime Reading gives you unlimited access to over a thousand books, current magazines, comics, Kindle Singles, and more. With any device – including your phone, tablet, or Kindle – you can read however you want, whenever you want.     Stream thousands of movies and TV episodes with Prime Video With Amazon Prime, members enjoy unlimited streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes at no additional cost, including award-winning Amazon Original series like Transparent and The Grand Tour, and top HBO shows like True Blood, Girls, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. No Wi-Fi, no problem—Prime Video downloads Exclusive to Prime members, download thousands of Prime Video movies and TV episodes. Watch downloaded videos anywhere—on a plane, on vacation, in the car, or wherever you don't have a wireless connection. Prime Video offers offline viewing at no additional cost.  Over 2 million songs free with Prime Music Prime Music is a benefit of your Amazon Prime Membership, featuring a growing selection of over two million songs, always ad-free and on-demand. Unlock more music with Amazon Music Unlimited, just $7.99 per month for Prime members. Learn more about Unlimited Add HBO, SHOWTIME and more to Prime With Amazon Channels, Prime members can also subscribe to over 100 premium and specialty channels like HBO and SHOWTIME to add and stream—no cable or satellite subscription necessary. Prime members can subscribe to any or all of these channels with a free trial.   Designed with kids in mind When kids use Amazon FreeTime, it's like they have their very own personalized tablet. The background color and fonts change to a kid-friendly design and they only see the titles that you give them access to. Over 15,000 kid-friendly titles with FreeTime Unlimited Amazon FreeTime Unlimited is the first-ever all-in-one subscription that brings together books, games, educational apps, movies, and TV shows—all the types of content that kids and parents love. From just $2.99 per month, enjoy unlimited access to content including titles from Disney, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, PBS, and more. Perfect for parents Amazon FreeTime is built from the ground up to help give parents peace of mind when it comes to tablet use. Parents can create a profile for each of their children and choose which books, apps, games, and videos they want to give their kids access to. Amazon FreeTime is free on every Fire tablet. Fire Kids Edition tablets also available The Fire 7 Kids Edition and Fire HD 8 Kids Edition tablets include the Fire tablet, 1-year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, a Kid-Proof Case, plus a 2-year worry-free guarantee. Kids get access to 15,000 popular apps and games, videos, books and educational content from PBS Kids, Nickelodeon, Disney, and more with one year of FreeTime Unlimited. Best-in-class parental controls allow you to manage usage limits, content access, and educational goals. Learn more Limit screen time, so they don’t just play With Amazon FreeTime, parents can set daily limits for tablet use, or restrict certain categories—like games and video—while leaving unlimited time for reading.    Made with premium fabric, our slim, form-fitting case designed by Amazon conveniently allows your Fire tablet to rest in either landscape or portrait orientation so you can enjoy your content hands-free. Easy to attach and remove, the cases are integrated with a magnetic closure to ensure your cover stays shut while on the go, and automatically puts your Fire tablet to sleep when it is closed and wakes it upon opening. Explore beyond our cases, and accessorize your device with a wide selection of memory cards, screen protectors, extended warranty services, and more. Learn more   Display8" high definition touchscreen; 1280 x 800 resolution at 189 ppi, HD video playback, with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and advanced polarizing filterSize8.4" x 5.0" x 0.4" (214 mm x 128 mm x 9.7 mm)Weight13.0 ounces (369 grams)  Actual size and weight may vary by configuration and manufacturing processCPU & RAMQuad-Core: 1.3 GHz , with 1.5 GB of RAMStorage16 GB (11.1 GB available to user) or 32 GB (25.3 GB available to user) of internal storage. Add microSD card for up to 256 GB of additional storage for even more movies, TV shows, music, photos, personal videos, and apps.Fire HD 8 Tablet with Alexa, 8" HD Display, 16 GB, Black - with Special Offers Some apps may require that they are installed on internal storage.Battery LifeUp to 12 hours of reading, surfing the web, watching video, and listening to music. Battery life will vary based on device settings, usage, and other factors such as web browsing and downloading content. Actual results may vary.Charge TimeFully charges in under 6 hours using the micro-USB power adapter included in the box, or slightly longer with other micro-USB power adapters that you may already haveWi-Fi ConnectivitySingle-antenna dual-band Wi-Fi. Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use the dual-band 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n standard with support for WEP, WPA, and WPA2 security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks4G ConnectivityN/APortsUSB 2.0 (micro-B connector) to connect to a PC/Macintosh computer, or to charge your device with the included power adapter; microSD slot for external storageAudio3.5 mm stereo jack and integrated speaker with Dolby AudioContent Formats SupportedKindle (AZW), KF8, TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible Enhanced format (AAX), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3), non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, PCM/WAVE, OGG, WAV, M4V, MP4, AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, MKV, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, HTML5, CSS3, 3GP, VP8 (WEBM)SensorsAccelerometer, ambient light sensorCamera SpecsVGA Front-facing Camera. 2.0 MP rear-facing HD cameraLocation ServicesLocation-based services via Wi-FiAvailable ColorsBlack, Marine Blue, Punch Red, Canary YellowAdditional FeaturesExternal volume controls, built-in Bluetooth with support for A2DP compatible stereo headphones, speakers, microphone, and LE accessories supportAccessibility FeaturesScreen Reader, Explore by Touch, and Screen Magnifier, enabling access to the vast majority of Fire tablet features. Screen Reader features IVONA's award-winning natural language text-to-speech voice. Also includes adjustable font sizes/color, and built-in Oxford dictionary. Learn moreSystem RequirementsFire HD 8 is ready to use right out of the box—no setup, no software to install, no computer required to download contentWarranty and Service90-day Limited Warranty and service included. Optional 1-year, 2-year, and 3-yearExtended Warranty available for U.S. customers sold separately. Use of Fire HD 8 tablet is subject to the terms found hereIncluded in the BoxFire HD 8 tablet, USB 2.0 cable, 5W power adapter, and Quick Start GuideGeneration7th generation - 2017 release Fire HD 8 Tablet with Alexa, 8" HD Display, 16 GB, Black - with Special Offers Customer questions & answers 183  votes Question: why is it so inexpensive? I donot expect this from Kindle, so I wonder about the quality... Answer: Sit down, grab a coffee, relax ...this may be long :D The Kindle ereaders are indeed the "best of the breed" and very high quality, reflected in the price of them, and for good reason. Also Amazon has very little real competition in ereaders, with pretty firm control of the market. Tablets, on the other hand, are manu… see more  By MaGold on May 22, 2017  See more answers (75) 104  votes Question: if i buy a 16 gb but I install 32 gb smart card, would it have the same capacity of a 32gb? Answer: If you were to buy a 16Gb model, and equip it with a 32GB micro-SD card, you'd have 16GB internal space (minus whatever space the operating system and pre-installed apps require) + roughly 32 GB of external storage (it's a tad less than that due to the way formatting works). But here's the caveat: As previously mention… see more  By Trevor on June 7, 2017  See more answers (24) 52  votes Question: How is this different from the previous fire HD8? I just bought one a few days ago waiting for it to arrive. Answer: Here is the breakdown for current and legacy Fire Tablets: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/kindle-fire/specifications/01-device-and-feature-specifications  By Michael Elliott on May 17, 2017  See more answers (55) 43  votes Question: I'm assuming there is still no gps chip in these, making them useless for map-related applications. correct? Answer: Location services are available only through wifi.  By Arturo Ruiz on June 14, 2017 Fire HD 8 Tablet with Alexa, 8" HD Display, 16 GB, Black - with Special Offers