Purchased a Fire 10 tablet for $70 on Prime Days

[Hermann]

Purchased an Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet on the Prime Days sale. It was $70, less10% using my Amazon Visa card. Man tablets have come a long way. My last new Tablet was in 2014 and this thing just works great and the perfect size. Bought this for one reason and I am finding I am using it for a lot of things. Didn't even do much research and I scored a decent tablet with a beautiful 1080p 10.1" screen display. My intended use is to stream CNBC during the day and just have it on, so I can walk by and get updates quickly without having to change screens elsewhere. It streams effortlessly and nothing get hot while streaming near the power jack. Got a nice cover/stand for $13 that works well. Used it this afternoon while not charging it, the battery use was 18% in a hour and 45 minutes. About half that time I was streaming. with the display on. Happy camper so far.

 

[macarose]

Purchased an Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet on the Prime Days sale. It was $70, less10% using my Amazon Visa card. Man tablets have come a long way. My last new Tablet was in 2014 and this thing just works great and the perfect size. Bought this for one reason and I am finding I am using it for a lot of things. Didn't even do much research and I scored a decent tablet with a beautiful 1080p 10.1" screen display. My intended use is to stream CNBC during the day and just have it on, so I can walk by and get updates quickly without having to change screens elsewhere. It streams effortlessly and nothing get hot while streaming near the power jack. Got a nice cover/stand for $13 that works well. Used it this afternoon while not charging it, the battery use was 18% in a hour and 45 minutes. About half that time I was streaming. with the display on. Happy camper so far.

There will come a day when tablets will replace TVs for those who live alone and don't want or need a big screen.

A lot of people in their 20s and 30s are already there. A few retirees too apparently.

 

[Urshurak776]

I just find the Fire tablets.....sloooooooow. For the price though, can't beat that.

 

[supton]

Glad for you. I tried a Fire years ago when my iPad mini was worn out and too slow. In the end, I found that I missed the thin feel of the iDevice and wound up with a regular iPad. Which now is feeling old and worn out, and has me thinking about going to Fire next... because I'm cheap.

 

[Zee09]

In my experience Fires last forever
I have 6 currently and no issues
I like to upgrade often
I give them away eventually

 

[Hermann]

I just find the Fire tablets.....sloooooooow. For the price though, can't beat that.

Speed is a relative benefit. If you have enough for your needs you don't miss the excess. The build quality is better than my $500 cell. My 7 inch Fire Tablet still works after 11 years, even though it has laid unused for years at times unused. It streams the CNBC stream but gets hot and has brief glitches. I'm in the Amazon family so I naturally lean that way.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

I have one I bought in 2022 for $50. It's the ad supported one yet I've never seen an ad on it?
It's definitely not as nice of a screen as an apple pad or higher end android tablet, but just for watching youtube on the couch or browsing the web it works just fine.

 

[Brons2]

I gave my 2023 64GB model away to my kid and loaded Amazon Kids on it, it just doesn't have enough power to do the things I want to do with a tablet.

I was tempted by the 13" iPad Air on Prime Day for less than $700 (even though I generally loathe Apple stuff), but, it's just not in the budgetary plans for this year.

 

[Brons2]

I have one I bought in 2022 for $50. It's the ad supported one yet I've never seen an ad on it?
It's definitely not as nice of a screen as an apple pad or higher end android tablet, but just for watching youtube on the couch or browsing the web it works just fine.

See this is my complaint with them. First, I had to sideload the Google Play store, and then YouTube really didn't perform that well on it unless I restricted all the videos to 480p.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

See this is my complaint with them. First, I had to sideload the Google Play store, and then YouTube really didn't perform that well on it unless I restricted all the videos to 480p.

I definitely need to get google play store on mine.