Amazon up to date its Hearth HD 8 lineup final week and promptly put the pill on sale for Prime Day. The 2024 mannequin has extra RAM, a greater digital camera setup and built-in AI options to make it totally different from its predecessor. The system, which can often begin at $100 (with lock-screen adverts), has been discounted to $55 for October Prime Day.
As its title suggests, the brand new Hearth HD 8 has an 8-inch show with a 1280 x 800 decision (189 ppi). One of many 2024 mannequin’s massive upgrades is 3GB of RAM within the base storage tier (32B). In the meantime, the 64GB variant slides as much as 4GB of RAM. After all, it is a finances pill, so these aren’t near barrier-breaking numbers. However that’s nonetheless 50 to 100% larger than the 2GB of RAM within the 2022 mannequin.
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Save massive on Amazon’s just-announced Hearth HD 8 pill for 2024.
Amazon charges the Hearth HD 8 for as much as 13 hours of battery life. The pill’s rear digital camera is 5MP. (That’s the identical because the “Plus” model of its 2022 predecessor, however it’s larger than the 2MP within the outdated normal model.)
The tablets will embody some generative AI capabilities. Like Apple’s early tackle AI in its 2024 updates, these embody a Writing Help characteristic that may jot out messages primarily based on prompts. It might additionally summarize net pages, make grammar options and tweak brevity.
There will even be two youngsters’ variations of the pill: the Hearth HD 8 Youngsters and Hearth HD 8 Youngsters Professional. As you’d anticipate from Amazon’s child-focused variants, these variations will embody a “kid-proof” case in Disney-branded designs (together with Pixar Automobiles, Disney Princess or Marvel Avengers). Additionally they include a subscription to Amazon Youngsters+, the corporate’s content material supply service (together with cell video games!) for the kiddos.
The Hearth HD 8 is out there now from Amazon, beginning at $55 for Prime Day (often $100). The Hearth HD 8 Youngsters pill usually begins at $140 however is on sale for $70 for Prime Day.
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