Fire 7 Tablet, 16 GB, Red—with Special Offers (Previous Generation - 7th)

I recently joined Amazon Prime, using a Fire Stick, and wanted the Fire tablet to accompany my use of all the resources available with my Prime membership.The Amazon Fire tablet seamlessly engaged with: my Kindle books, Prime music, Prime video and the Amazon site. I have been so impressed with this ecosystem that I now have an Echo Dot and an Echo on the way.Outside the Amazon offerings, one can use the tablet in the normal way to surf the net, stream audio and video. Put this alongside the apps available from the Amazon store (both bought and free) and one has a highly functional tablet, that both engages with the broader Internet and allows seamless engagement with the Amazon Prime offerings in my membership.I have saved the best until last, Alexa, she now sits in my Fire tablet and the Echo Dot on the table beside me (5Live sport coverage of the football streaming at the moment). If I tell her to play a radio station, she does so, on the Fire Tablet or Echo Dot (I listened to Radio Merseyside's coverage of the Rugby League last evening) or I could ask her to set a reminder (eg Try Time on Thursdays at six) and low and behold she does just that and tells me! Or I could just say "stream Faithless" and she does this from my Prime subscription.I am a relative newcomer to the potential of my Fire Tablet, I am more than happy with what I have been able to do so far and anticipate more to come.Overall I am delighted by my Fire Tablet, it, for the price, is a great portal to utilising the resources of Amazon Prime membership, a good general tablet and, given the addition of the smart assistance of Alexa, a revelation.NB: I have used other smart assistants on other platforms, but given the Amazon resources, skills and the Prime benefits, Alexa wins out :D

I bought first one in July 2017, had to have a replacement in November, January, April and July, just as the warranty expired, and the last one just died. I AM AN ICT TECH, and I know what causes the death of these, it is due to a fault caused by the addition of the expandible memory, it places stress on the wires and soldering that connect the charging port to the battery. It heats up as you charge the device, and causes the wiring & soldering to part ways. This first causes the charging to falter, then it fails completely. I and my grandson both have one of the earlier versions, and after over 4 years, they are both operating. While I am very fond of the 7th gen and the features it promises, those promises are not kept by the build of the device. Good luck, me and my techie buds all know the reason, but Amazon refuses to acknowledge it, and treat me like an idiot when I call and say another one has bit the dust, and why.

I bought these for my 2 sons (5)(2) and I must say they absolutely love the kids part of it and the charge lasts so long. The cases were bought separately but are fantastic in protecting the tablets. I can not fault one bit. Beautiful and sleep and so kid friendly.

Bought to replace a generic Android Ebay special that had given sterling service until the battery died. Compared to that, this unit, with broadly similar specifications is a let down.The screen looks quite nice, except in bright light when it can't be made out.The battery life started out quite good. Now?, every day it needs the charger. It falls well short of the advertised 8 hours, more like 3 before the low battery warning kicks in to life to annoy.W-Fi is unpredictable, despite being mostly used within 10 ft of the hub. Slow performance and frequent dropouts. Note my previous cheapie never had these issues.Crash!. Even simple games drop out with annoying frequency.Stutter!. When even simple games are running, the unit struggles and there are stutters aplenty.Lock!. Videos lock up and freeze.Sound!. It makes a noise. A tinny, thin noise that gets lost.Heat!. It runs hella hot.SD!. Running apps from the SD card?, good luck with that.So, it's glitchy, slow, stuttery, the battery life is inconsistent, the endless ads annoy, the sound from the speaker is poor and it's not much better through headphones. Storage is largely consumed by bloatware, the browser is glitchy ( Firefox solves that ), it needs the play store sideloading ( simple to do ), Wi-Fi is poor. Nice screen ( indoors ) for reading books downloaded from Gutenberg though, but even that drops back to the home screen and needs restarting with annoying frequency.There are better ways to get a 7" tablet. Not recommended.

Ok, so there is a bunch of advertising I could live without. That said the tablet itself is responsive and reasonably quick and at the price you can't knock it. I bought one just to stream my music from spotify and amazon music, and it handles it really well.... apart from the occasional un-warned reboot to update the software. I bought an expensive 10" tablet with amazing spec a couple of years ago, now that was a waste of money, it can't touch this for simplicity and useability.

Good value : just £29.99 for the 8gb version. Have been using it for a few days & it seems quite slow at times (possibly due to my WiFi connection though). Has noticed some troubling issues with Fire's Apps in that they don't seem to be keeping up with some updates, eBay for example suggest an update is available but kindle app store doesn't offer it. Also no app for Tesco. I know an app isn't always needed but the impression I get is that Amazon are not keeping abreast of the times