It also often drums up a more interesting set of suggestions. Give it a go and you’ll find it usually beats finger tapping on the soft keyboard for speed. It pulls up results around tablet content, news, weather and everything else just as normal. The Fire HD 10 will wake just like any Alexa-enabled device when you say the magic word. There’s also a weather widget and a search bar.Īlexa is, of course, central to the experience and very welcome that is. The home page experience is split into three main panels: ‘Home’ is your app tray, plain and simple Library mixes your content from Kindle, your app games, Prime Video, Audible and Amazon Music (it’s essentially your Amazon ecosystem content hub) and ‘For You’ is a bit of a rehash of Library, only featuring content suggestions from Amazon, rather than anything you’ve already added to your lists.
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You’ll have to access Google Play to get hold of anything more exciting, and the limited power of the Fire HD 10 means it will likely struggle with more demanding titles.īut while Fire OS isn’t exactly Android it does look, feel and behave very much like it. While there are plenty of games to choose from, they’re largely of the basic Candy Crush / Hungry Shark / Clash Of The Clans type. There’s no access to Apple services, no Deezer and no Now or Sky Store, although Sky customers can stream via the Sky Go app. All of the UK catch-up apps are present and correct, too. Other big utility apps such as WhatsApp or Duolingo don’t feature either, but there are third party equivalents for most things.įortunately, most of the streaming services are there, though, Netflix, Disney+, BT TV, Plex, VLC, DAZN, ExpressVPN, UKTV Play, Spotify, Tidal, Twitch and both Prime Video and Amazon Music, of course. There are workarounds, most of which aren’t very complicated, but it doesn’t come with Android staples such as Google Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Docs and the other Drive apps. That means that you don’t get out-of-the-box access to the usual Android apps from the Google Play Store. It’s based on Android, but Android it isn’t quite. Amazon uses Fire OS for its tablet range. This is not an Android tablet, just in case you were mistaken. Storage 32Gb / 64Gb (microSD-expandable by up to 1TB)Ĭameras 2MP front-facing, 5MP rear-facing