Amazon Fire HD 8 (2016)

Not perfect, but the best you can get for the price

Amazon 8-inch tablet has more base memory (16GB), zippier performance, better battery life and a 40 percent lower price tag ($90). That adds up to a pretty sweet bargain.

Amazon has just released the Fire HD 8 and this is one of the first tablets that will have the Alexa voice assistant in the upcoming OS 5.4 update. If you have last  years Fire 8, this new model basically has 12 hours of battery life, 50% more RAM for faster performance, and 2x the on-device storage, plus support for up to 200 GB of additional storage via a microSD card. Hardware The Fire HD 8 has an eight inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280x800 and 189 PPI.  Underneath the hood is a quad-core 1.3GHz processor with 1.5 GB

With 8in screen, stereo speakers, 16GB of storage and enough performance to handle games, Fire HD 8 is a good budget tablet that won’t infuriate

Amazon's latest Fire HD 8 tablet is a great value for media consumption, as long as you can live without access to Google Play.

An impressive budget tablet from Amazon...