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Fire HD 8 tablet, 8" HD display, 32 GB, (2020 release), designed for portable entertainment, Black

Fire HD 8 tablet, 8" HD display, 32 GB, (2020 release), designed for portable entertainment, Black

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Claudia
4.0 out of 5 starsGood
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 30, 2022
Honestly, for the price, it's good. It's obviously not an iPad so lower your expectations a bit but I think it's good for doing basic things like playing games, watching YouTube/films, etc. If you are looking to get it for that, I'd say go ahead but it's not revolutionary. I am satisfied with it and happy that I don't have to rely on my phone all the time now to play games. Here are some things I dislike and like:

Things I dislike:
- The Amazon app store. Oh, boy... Do I need to say anything else? No offence but it's really bad. It barely has any of the games I like and wanted in the first place and most games tend to be really bad quality too. They always send you email receipts when you download a game, which confused me at first so you will kind of get bombarded with emails but whatever, just delete them (not sure if I can turn that off though).
- The camera? Also terrible quality. Don't even bother. It's definitely not meant for taking pictures. I just pretend it's not there lol
- Sometimes it can be a bit slow and laggy especially after you exit a game but just give it a couple of seconds and it should come back to you.
- The screen quality is good. It could definitely use some improvement but it's also not the worst thing ever.
- It's a bit smaller than I expected but that one's my fault!

Things I like:
- You can easily install Google Play, which is awesome!!!! I mainly got it for games but I made the mistake of not bothering to read the reviews and was initially disappointed at how poor the app store was but after installing Google Play, I now have all of my favorite games. It's great, but I'm not sure how it's going to work in the long run. Will I have to update Google Play somehow? Will it stop working eventually? If I uninstall it, will all of my games be removed too? Does anybody know? I'm a bit too far into my games at this point to try and cause any damage...
- The other thing about games installed from Google Play is that sometimes you'll get ads and sometimes you won't. That's good and bad. It's great when you don't have to sit through an ad every 5 seconds because they are so annoying but it can be really inconvenient too because you won't be able to double your coins for example if all you had to do was watch an ad. I never really know which apps will let the ads run and which won't. Also, sometimes the games will not let me sign into my Google account to save my progress. I can sign in with Facebook perfectly fine but not with Google. Not sure how that works, so it won't always be perfect.
- The battery life is good and it charges really fast, which is great but I do wish the charging cable was slightly longer.
- You can add a "new user" if you'd like. I haven't tried it because I'm the only one using it but it seems like a good idea if you had more than one person using it, then that way each person can have their own profile and won't mess things up for the other I'm guessing.
- Honestly, it could also work as a Kindle? I'm not mad at it.
- It's easy to set up and all of the other Amazon apps already come installed so you don't have to worry about installing any of them.
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Dave
1.0 out of 5 starsStill slow, clunky with very few options for customization.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 4, 2020
I bought this tablet thinking it would be an improvement over older models. Yes it's a bit faster than the previous model, but still frustratingly slow when compared to current generation tablets from competitors.

Yes this runs on Android, but the user interface is totally modified by Amazon, and you cannot remove/hide apps, screens that you don't use. For example, "Books", "Newsstand", "Audible", and "Music" are all areas I don't use, but there's no way to hide these screens. They just clutter space on my screen, and makes using the tablet more frustrating.

Also, you cannot install Google Chrome. Instead, you need to use Amazon's web browser, "Silk", which I'm not familiar with, and would much rather not have to use a totally separate browser for this tablet, when i use Chrome on all other devices I have.

If you live in Canada and have Bell Fibe TV, the app is not available in Amazon's app store. You also cannot use the Google Play Store app to download any apps that are not available in Amazon's selection.

Overall, if you want a true tablet, don't buy this. The Fire tablets force a lot of unwanted bloatware designed to keep you in their ecosystem. I normally don't have a problem with that, but Amazon makes a lot of effort to prevent you from downloading practically all Google apps.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Still slow, clunky with very few options for customization.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 4, 2020
Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
I bought this tablet thinking it would be an improvement over older models. Yes it's a bit faster than the previous model, but still frustratingly slow when compared to current generation tablets from competitors.

Yes this runs on Android, but the user interface is totally modified by Amazon, and you cannot remove/hide apps, screens that you don't use. For example, "Books", "Newsstand", "Audible", and "Music" are all areas I don't use, but there's no way to hide these screens. They just clutter space on my screen, and makes using the tablet more frustrating.

Also, you cannot install Google Chrome. Instead, you need to use Amazon's web browser, "Silk", which I'm not familiar with, and would much rather not have to use a totally separate browser for this tablet, when i use Chrome on all other devices I have.

If you live in Canada and have Bell Fibe TV, the app is not available in Amazon's app store. You also cannot use the Google Play Store app to download any apps that are not available in Amazon's selection.

Overall, if you want a true tablet, don't buy this. The Fire tablets force a lot of unwanted bloatware designed to keep you in their ecosystem. I normally don't have a problem with that, but Amazon makes a lot of effort to prevent you from downloading practically all Google apps.
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Cass MacGillivray
1.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 30, 2021
Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
This is literally the worst product I've ever received from Amazon.

I bought it while it was on sale, on a payment plan that lasted about four months and for those four months, the device worked absolutely perfectly. Not even a week after I made the final payment, its wi-fi connection began disconnecting and reconnecting every couple of minutes which kicked me out of apps that require a connection, and interrupted anything I was doing or streaming. If I was writing something? That was gone. So I scoured the internet for solutions and found only a few examples of the same issue, and after trying their suggested work-arounds I found that nothing actually worked. Reinstalling apps would sometimes work for a few hours, and factory-resetting the device worked for about a day sometimes, or it didn't work at all. I even tried setting up a static IP for the device and that had no effect. Having to redo all of my settings every day, however, is not acceptable for a personal device.

So I contacted customer service. The first guy I reached was not helpful, told me he would elevate the issue and call me back which of course he never did. He DID email me like six hours later and say he'll call me the next day, which he also never did. So I contacted them again and requested a replacement.

They sent me a refurbished item that, to nobody's surprise, has the very same issue. It is literally unusable; it will remain connected to the wi-fi all day as long as I don't touch it, but the second I start trying to use it for anything I'm disconnected and reconnected and disconnected and reconnected and disconnected and reconnected every couple of minutes. It's quite infuriating, and I've mostly left it sitting on a shelf unused since I received it.

I'm unsure whether it's even worth trying to get a third replacement or if I should just return it and get my money back so I can buy a real tablet. I thought a cheap one would suffice because I only use it for streaming and for chatting, but without a stable internet connection it cannot do either one of those things with any reliability.

I strongly suggest you skip this product and spend the extra money to get a proper tablet. I'm not the sort of person that writes negative reviews, but my experience with these things has been miserable and I just need to vent my rage.
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Allyson Hines
1.0 out of 5 stars This tablet sucks
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 29, 2023
Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GBColour Name: Twilight BlueVerified Purchase
Amazon fire tablets are cheap because they suck. The Amazon operating system is not user friendly. You can’t get any good free apps on it. Not even YouTube. I could barely do a thing with it. I had to sell it for way less then what I paid for it cause it was a hunk of junk and nobody wanted to buy it and it was only 3.5 months old. If I had known I could return it within 90 days with Intelcom pickup I would have done that asap. I learned that the hard way by losing lots of money on this crappy crappy useless tablet
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Tammy C.
1.0 out of 5 stars Don’t waste your money!
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 30, 2023
Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
When purchasing this item, I purchased 3 for my kids. Unfortunately, the tablets took over a month to get delivered. Unfortunately again, the tablets requires an Amazon account and a method of payment to be added - not exactly kid-friendly. Finally, one of the tablet stopped working shortly after the 1 year warranty and there was nothing to be done except buy a new one.
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Larissa
1.0 out of 5 stars So limited.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 19, 2022
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
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 This is made by Amazon, but I bought it at Best Buy because there return and warranty are better than Amazon. I bought it for reading. My boyfriend and I are long distance so reading books, comics, and snapchat videos is huge to us. This tablet won't let me download the Snapchat app, won't let me download the Marvel Unlimited app, and won't even let me go to their website and use it from there. Marvel is completely blocked and Snapchat won't let me sign in on their website. Basically, anything Amazon doesn't own or have a share in, they will not let you use. It's pathetic. Worst purchase ever. I'll be returning it today and replacing it with something completely different. Never purchasing an Amazon product again. Just a greedy company.
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Tony Dorante
1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointed with this tablet
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 13, 2023
Digital Storage Capacity: 32 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
Purchased as a standalone media player for my wife. This tablet is extremely underpowered. Apps take a long time to load and video buffers despite my having a fiberoptic gigabit connection. Also there is no access to the Google play store. You can only download apps from the Amazon ecosystem which is woefully limited. I do not recommend this product and wish I had sent it back in the return window. My wife never uses it so at this point it is just a paperweight
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1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy!!!
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 2, 2022
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
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 Do not buy!!! I experienced the black screen where the tablet would not turn on. Holding down the power button did nothing. Plugging it in to the charger "woke" the screen up. But as you can see from the video, the tablet had battery life. I replaced the cover thinking it was the problem. NOPE. Amazon sent a replacement. Worked for a day and the exact same thing happened. Beyond frustrating. Customer service was no help. And now have to return 2 tablets and 2 cases in 4 different return boxes because they were separate order IDs. So buyer beware!
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Karli
1.0 out of 5 stars Backlight dead
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 22, 2023
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
Screen is faded only after a couple months. Doesn’t give me the option to return or exchange. My child is pretty upset seeing it was bought end of December and it’s already broken. Can you please let me exchange it. Thank you.
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Karli
1.0 out of 5 stars Backlight dead
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 22, 2023
Screen is faded only after a couple months. Doesn’t give me the option to return or exchange. My child is pretty upset seeing it was bought end of December and it’s already broken. Can you please let me exchange it. Thank you.
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Tamara McBurney
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time and money, wish my old one still charged
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 26, 2021
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
I had a fire 8 before that I loved - I bought it to read my ebooks out loud and watch some Netflix and Amazon prime. It worked great, loved it but after 2 years it would not charge anymore, no cord would not stay in the charging port . So I bought a new one and w hate it. It will not read the books to me , I hate the new format nothing works right. I waste hours trying to get basic functions to work only to give up in disgust. I have tried reading the manual online and have tried to get help through the contact me area- good luck with that it is a dead end down the rabbit hole. Basically a huge waste of money and so much extra aggravation and now I can’t afford something different to read the ebooks to me. It looks goos screen better than my old one but who cares when it will not do the basic functions it was designed for. Also my Amazon prime is stuck at toddler shows and I cannot change it so one more function that is useless for me as a 53 year old.
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Frederick mariage
1.0 out of 5 stars Service de garanti
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 20, 2023
Digital Storage Capacity: 64 GBColour Name: BlackVerified Purchase
On a retourner la tablette sous garanti. L'agent nous dit pas de trouble on vous l'échange. Mais une fois envoyer. Il échangé plus. Il rembourse car elle est plus en spéciale. Pogne très mal le wifi
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