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"kindle fire has major problem with recharging and after the second replacement and a good christmas offer brought this ipad"

"which is a common fault on these ipads shame on you apple for that but i use a good android phone for photos and videos so this wont be getting use for that the worst thing about about this new ipad is connectivity to my wifi this is appauling i sometimes have to keep hitting the connect button over and over my cheap android phone android tablets and old ipad 4 had no trouble disgusting for a £400 tablet last apple product i will ever buy!"

"if you've never had an ipad before or like me can't won't pay the absurd prices for the pro ranges then this a great tablet for the price"

"just back and was going to return only to discover we’re out of time!"

"used ipads since they first came out can’t fault them"

"it's made life so much easier as our old apple mac laptop was slowing down with age!"

"there were multiple specks of dust on the inside after applying it to the ipad these ended up with bubbles and after trying to remove specks the glass was no longer transparent and wouldn't stick"

"this item doesn’t work!"

"only learned this because battery charge didnt work"

"there should be a clear warning for this product has a very poor drop test standard"

"it’s a slow process"

"there is still a slight problem with bluetooth and i cannot be bothered to return it again"

"it replaces an old ipad that had gotten very slow and sometimes stopped for a few seconds very frustrating"

"i found this ipad a little small and more difficult to use than my old one"

"annoying but now forgotten about"

"unclear what sort of warranty is issued"

"but still having issues with storage and power point presentations"

"android tablet which i have a few i went for this 128gb model at £400 im waiting for a protective cover for it i only give this model 2 stars on value for money and the model because of the battery usage although it does get 3 stars for easy to use my old ipad 4 the built microphone stopped working"

"i am not an apple addict but when it comes to work supplies i only trust apple"

"i'll start off by stating that i am an apple phobe and hate everything apple"

"replacement for my wife's defunct old ipad and it's a big improvement on her old ailing one which eventually died completely"

"i really can’t say this is good value as since i have bought it i really just played plants vs zombies for a week or so and haven’t used it since"

"there were multiple specks of dust on the inside after applying it to the ipad these ended up with bubbles and after trying to remove specks the glass was no longer transparent and wouldn't stick"

"now i have a useless toy tablet"

"my last ipad battery only lasted for"

"there is still a slight problem with bluetooth and i cannot be bothered to return it again"

"i would recommend never to buy such a device from amazon a the after sales was poor"

"a hard copy manual should come with the device"

"have i just been unlucky or is there a fault with this ipad"

"bought because i was having difficulty reading texts and messages"

"there is one downer though"

"when i am looking for a tablet i know the options are limited"

"what a nonsense!"

"i'll start off by stating that i am an apple phobe and hate everything apple"

"unfortunately the first one went missing during delivery but amazon sent another out right away"

"when i look deeply into features performance and price i understood that i do not have any other option otherthan apple"

"an upgrade of a previous ipad model and cannot believe the difference"

"works ok but not very impressed with keyboard which is not as receptive as i phone appears a bit sluggish"

"i had a very old apple ipad which was past its time not wanting to pay apple prices i brought a kindle fire "

"but the fact that the battery life can be so so after a while like all apple products does make it a bit concerning but the tablet is really great and to be honest i think because off all the new features it makes the small inconvenience of maybe having to trave around with a battery backup and or the charger worth it"

"which is a common fault on these ipads shame on you apple for that but i use a good android phone for photos and videos so this wont be getting use for that the worst thing about about this new ipad is connectivity to my wifi this is appauling i sometimes have to keep hitting the connect button over and over my cheap android phone android tablets and old ipad 4 had no trouble disgusting for a £400 tablet last apple product i will ever buy!"

"apple make everything as difficult and confusing as possible to link it with google and microsoft products"

"my emails either do not come up at all or they appear on bin i also used to be able to put a code for the sun newspaper that doesn’t work either"

"there were multiple specks of dust on the inside after applying it to the ipad these ended up with bubbles and after trying to remove specks the glass was no longer transparent and wouldn't stick"

"i really do not like this ipad"

"which is a common fault on these ipads shame on you apple for that but i use a good android phone for photos and videos so this wont be getting use for that the worst thing about about this new ipad is connectivity to my wifi this is appauling i sometimes have to keep hitting the connect button over and over my cheap android phone android tablets and old ipad 4 had no trouble disgusting for a £400 tablet last apple product i will ever buy!"

"the 1 year included warranty didn't cover this incident"

"there should be a clear warning for this product has a very poor drop test standard"

"she had an old android tablet before this one which had become slow to use it was unbearable"

"but the fact that the battery life can be so so after a while like all apple products does make it a bit concerning but the tablet is really great and to be honest i think because off all the new features it makes the small inconvenience of maybe having to trave around with a battery backup and or the charger worth it"

"exactly as advertised"

"it replaces an old ipad that had gotten very slow and sometimes stopped for a few seconds very frustrating"

"instead they sent me 3 gaming mice which i didn't order and i was really concerned that i was not going to be able to get my money back or get a replacement"

"i am not an apple addict but when it comes to work supplies i only trust apple"

"i am very disappointed with this ipad it’s so tempo mental"

"it replaces an old ipad that had gotten very slow and sometimes stopped for a few seconds very frustrating"

"this is a major problem for me and i was outraged to discover that a newer version of this tablet is inferior to the older one for what i want to do "

"i'm not sure what the technical reason is for the awful slowness of this device but can only presume it's to do with amazon's overlay of it's operating system onto android"

"i previously had an ipad mini but poor integration with pc and android phone meant doing anything took ages and to be honest it's slow and highly over rated"

"despite having received pronunciation she does often struggle to understand what i want but perhaps that is my poor phrasing and she really does need to find out the difference between gilbert and sullivan and gilbert o'sullivan!"

"perhaps the worst aspect is that when you now turn on the tablet it blast out a sound much to not only your annoyance but everybody in the room with you and this sound is not controlled by the general volume controls nor can it turned off via settings"

"even more disappointed than i was if that’s their only advice i’d rather they’d kept quiet"

"the battery life on these tablets is extremely poor and it appears to use up battery life even when supposedly switched off"

"really disappointed because my previous one didnt give me this much trouble and i only replaced it because it was stolen"

"the adds are not too intrusive but i would get it without personally"

"very disappointed"

"you can't change the default launcher without a separate app from the internet called "launcherhijack" and the amazon launcher is really awful"

"another issue is: there is a constant static audio sound that buzzes from the device and it is really annoying"

"2 it takes forever to charge 3 it is quite slow loading internet pages pros 1 battery life is really good 2 the sound is clear 3 managed to install the apps i needed including sky go"

"hands down the most awful piece of technology i've ever owned and i once owned an atari jaguar"

"very sad and very confusing"

"2 it takes forever to charge 3 it is quite slow loading internet pages pros 1 battery life is really good 2 the sound is clear 3 managed to install the apps i needed including sky go"

"it is just a terrible overlay"

"cameras terrible"

"this is the worst product i have ever purchased"

"this tablet is total and utter junk and i urge nobody to waste money and by this total crap"

"bar the first which fell prey to my cat all the others have suffered some kind of electrical electronic failure leaving me with a dead lump of uselessness"

"all might not be lost you can download files from the internet to install play store but if something goes wrong when installing these files i don't know how you would resolve the issues if the tablet fails to work afterwards"

"however either the operating system or process is just too slow for me to really recommend this"

"i would recommend no one wastes their money on buying one !"

"when i first saw it the wallpaper didn't do it justice at all as the set picture was dull and grainy but as soon as i updated to a full hd wallpaper and started watching films and playing games i saw the real quality"

"we can not recommend the latter too highly having struggled in the past with those problematic soft plastic ones"

"the final point is that for the first time i experienced terrible customer service from amazon when i phoned the help line"

"it's just a mess and really more complicated than it needs to be and i honestly can't recommend it right now maybe after some software firmware upgrades i can give a better review"

"it is not blisteringly quick but neither is it frustratingly slow"

"i paid more money so i didn't have to have one of their "special offer" one = spy on you and bombard you with crappy targeted ads can't imagine how bad that one would have been"

"so would i buy or recommend this tablet well yes but in specific circumstances i would not buy this as my main tablet as it is simply too slow for some applications but for general use maybe as a first tablet or for children then yes"

"this has been a disaster"

"a real disappointment amazon i wish you had let me keep my old one"

"as supplied it is full of ad crap and bloat but it can be de amazonized quite easily using the instructions and toolbox from liliputing"

"as a result show mode is a waste of space especially as when you go to the alexa app the device is always shown as being offline"

"really slow"

"sometimes its responsiveness is simply appalling and i never experienced this lack of performance this consistently with the old device"

"amazon support contacted with a standard 'copy and paste' answer which addressed none of the factors i've mentioned except battery life and even then pasted the same sentence twice but with different expected times"

"the main issue with this tablet i have bought 2 for my children is that is constantly freezing and becoming unresponsive"

"there is a delete button but the docs continue to show on the kindle fire and try as i might and i have read all the hints and tips it is impossible to get rid of them"

"i keep getting error messages about infringing drm rights which is nonsense"

"facebook is painful sound is poor and it stutters about its business unpredictability"

"a second and worse issue is that when trying to access amazon my previously registered e mail address was not even recognised the system then set up an unusable e mail address for me and apparently the only way i can remove it is by de registering the device or doing a factory reset who is supposed to be in charge here the customer or the provider?"

"my old fire tablet was still in frequent use and the only problem i had was the battery draining fairly swiftly and increasing slowness"

"i searched the internet for a solution and found hundreds of others with exactly the same issue"

"to cut a long story short i rejected the refurbished 'replacement' and have ordered another new kindle at greater cost than my original so i am bearing the loss for a defective item rather than amazon"

"you could also very easily delete items too"

"the screen freezes and glitches and randomly crashes apps"

"my only gripe is that it’s not usb type c"

"yes it's an amazon badged tablet that i have linked to my amazon account but all the same it feels intrusive"

"the longstanding issues navigating the device and locating files remain unaddressed basically rubbish"

"amazon prime app is infuriatingly buggy"

"the first thing i did was to disable alexa as i find these 'ai' characters very annoying & really don't need it!"

"very very very slow and yes amazon i have rebooted etc but it appears that amazon are either using naff processors or their qc on their processors are not very good"

"there is no gps so maps are virtually useless"

"being able to tel alexa to play a film or put on lullabies is a help during fussy nights and 3am feeds!"

"not a major issue but it is beyond bizarre that on a fire tablet i have the hd10 and the hd8 you cannot view your personal docs in the kindle app on the device even though you can view them in the kindle app on an android tablet or phone and can also do that on an ios device and of course on a kindle device "

"amazon special offers were annoying but thankfully amazon removed it without any charges and i don't get annoying screensavers anymore"

"don't waste your money on more expensive tablets"

"ours was return as we were dissatisfied and it did not meet our need as all we wanted was something to read news browse google and play games like candy crush"

"even worse the app is not available for kindle"

"i suppose its big selling thing is alexa"

"apart from that it is pretty slow"

"i knew it wouldn't be the same but after 2 3 weeks still unhappy"

"if my paperwhite falls off its perch i would buy one of these for myself :"

"its ok the reds are not red very washed out"

"many a times i have found that going to the previous screen is very slow non responsive especially while playing a video"

"as i say it may sound trivial but it quickly becomes annoying if you want to watch something late at night and not wake disturbs others who are sleeping"

"very unhappy that my older child can not access the internet & amazon music in her 13+ profile and to allow it she uses my profile but you can not block access to the “shop” in main profiles without alexa & various other apps being disabled as well"

"the kindle fire seems to just be a money trap trying to get you to buy more kindle books audible apps fire for kids music etc i already have prime & music but it seems these don’t go far towards what you may need"

"this was bought to replace a six year old fire hd 10 inch which decided that suddenly presumably from automatic updates to either the os or the apps that it didnt want to work any more and refused to be flattened back to a factory default setting thereby rendering itself about as much use as a door wedge"

"i bought the 32mb model in a black friday deal but even at full price particularly in the case of the 16mb model it still comes in cheaper than most budget tablets produced by firms you have heard of and it is worth noting many other tablets in the low hundred pound and less bracket often have slower processers only 8mb ram and a noticeable flex in the screen and body"

"bought as a replacement tablet for an elderly relative as their tesco tablet had become unuseable"

"i mean honestly noeadays you cant get one day with phones and even the switch battery died faster than this fire tablets i had the fire playing music for hours and i lost 14% so far update 1: after buying some audiobooks im seeing the same consistent issue"

"bought to replace my 7" which had developed screen faults*"

"bought a fire 8in last december and we are now in august and it is dead as a doe doe well all it is trying to do is reboot itself "

"this may sound trivial but it is something that does become annoying pretty quick and that is the start up tone"

"slightly larger than the nexus it is still good for ebooks and for silencing the demon child it was a perfect tool"

"ads appear on the lock screen which you swipe away if you want to use the tablet"

"we also added google play a very simple process under 5 minutes available on websites via the silk browser which has opened a whole new world of apps including youtube app compared to the amazon app store which is very limited"

"i am a kindle fan with 4 throughout the family but with the release of the new 8th generation i have had problem after problem using a micro sd card with it"

"the docking station is almost useless and apallingly bad value for money"

"i have had to source a 2nd device for the youngest 3 to avoid armageddon so they have profiles on each device"

"it's slower online less punchy when loading up websites"

"however the main issue we've had is that we purchased it to use with the lego boost app so that our son could build and code"

"another reason being the limited power of the processor in the hd 8"

"one annoying gripe is the sound was far better on my previous ones"

"this is heavy unreliable and slow"

"open more than 2 tabs in the browser and it will crawl to a halt app switching is slow and frequently even unlocking the tablet is slow laggy"

"another issue is: there is a constant static audio sound that buzzes from the device and it is really annoying"

"amazon's support is superb and while buying a cheap product might be daunting the support makes buying any amazon product an easy task"

"at some point i may pay £10 to have the annoying adverts special offers turned off and an sd card for up to 400 gb storage "

"two of them failed completely after about 18 months of use"

"basically one unhappy daughter thinks she got a crummy gift"

"my old fire tablet was still in frequent use and the only problem i had was the battery draining fairly swiftly and increasing slowness"

"if you want a cheap device to access your amazon content i think they are very good at doing that"

"it could be that i was unlucky and had a faulty product"

"possibly the worst purchase of my entire life"

"i used it abroad and when i returned home the time would just not adjust it needed to be restarted"

"she struggles to use the interface which is overly complicated"

"would it replace my phone as the go to device hell no"

"not only that but for some of the apps i use most amazon apps store does not have an equivalent i could buy instead except at a much inflated price"

"the ancestry app crashes but that is probably more to do with the app"

"but there are some serious bugs"

"but that is a minor issue really"

"do not buy this tablet it is not the same as normal tablets there are popup ads all over the place videos offensive content and it is impossible to remove without paying amazon"

"all might not be lost you can download files from the internet to install play store but if something goes wrong when installing these files i don't know how you would resolve the issues if the tablet fails to work afterwards"

"then it gets stroppy regarding the memory card i’ve installed often complaining about incorrect formatting"

"if you like screaming in fury at a blank screen as it resolutely ignores you only for it to spasm into life ten seconds later by which time the string of expletives have polluted the childrens' ears scared the cat and confused this lump of inert glass almost completely"

"when viewing youtube videos the skintones are noticeably pinky orange and a bit grainy"

"perhaps the worst aspect is that when you now turn on the tablet it blast out a sound much to not only your annoyance but everybody in the room with you and this sound is not controlled by the general volume controls nor can it turned off via settings"

"the apps that i can download are limited in range and choice most unsatisfactory"

"bad screens and worse responces"

"other times it flies along relatively but the inconsistent performance makes it difficult to love"

"but as i say this is a small niggle the pros of my new tablet far outweigh the cons"

"and then i found out that the device automatically updates itself without asking for your permission"

"games and apps: google play store is accessible but not without a minor fiddle around google how to do this so if a wide range of apps is something you want in a tablet this will do the job if you're up for following simple instructions"

"don't really like the "show mode" would love to be able customise the display to show the information i want rather than just the time weather along with scrolling suggestions on what to ask alexa there is also the headline news banner scrolling which i would prefer to have my own options of what news to display at the very least"

"i took it on holiday and didn't find it too cumbersome"

"30 mins on the phone with only maybe 5 minutes of actual talk time they say still having problems and will call me back later"

"tried to setup children account for both that showed not simple"

"fortunately i just brought this fire as a cheap controller for my sonos speaker system and music library"

"now maybe it's me that doesn't understand how the black friday sales work but i could have saved a further £40 £50 on this item if i had purchased it a week later and that annoyed me"

"this tablet is total and utter junk and i urge nobody to waste money and by this total crap"

"i couldn't get it on my old busted ipad either so i've not lost anything"

"no interest at all in activating alexa but others may find that useful"

"otherwise useless"

"there are a few rough edges but not deal breakers and maybe i should be reporting them through another channel"

"lastly on a more positive note had it not been for amazon's fantastic support i would have spent hours trying to resolve this issue myself"

"i can understand why amazon have done this in the interests of preventing piracy"

"i tend to use bluetooth headphones no danger of walking off and having your device crash to the floor or accidentally yanking the headphone wire even though this review appears to be negative i'd have to say that for the price of the actual device it's better than just ok if you're on a tight budget i'd recommend waiting for the special deals when the price drops"

"i couldn't have been more wrong"

"and you just can't seem to get to speak to an actual human"

"tried to sort it out myself but i see others have the same problem it's not major merely an irritant and strangely doesn't happen on my fire 7!"

"once completed the screen reverts to the wrong data"

"the screen display shows the wrong temperature by a long way and the wrong weather graphic"

"i have much older kindle fire models which are still going strong so wonder if i got faulty models or if this is a design flaw"

"i only replaced it because amazon stopped supporting it because it was so old"

"it's a disappointing tablet that tries to make you but more from its supplier"

"4 days later and it gets worse!"

"so it should be better it is arguably more resilient than the model it replaced but it isnt anywhere near as intuitive and its constant sleep advertising schtick is getting right on my pip"

"sadly games apps info are not stored as i do not do facebook so lost my level 500+ on a couple of games but new updated versions are good and presenting a challenge as before"

"due to a misunderstanding on my part this new replacement kindle was smaller than that it replaced"

"the amazon app store is more limited than google playstore but it has more than enough apps for my needs and i would think most peoples needs"

"i bought this to replace a broken hudl that i had used for a number of years"

"amazon's option was too painful to get e en a very basic result"

"firstly it wouldn’t power on so i plugged it into the charger with the provided very short usb cable and it came on showing 0% battery while it charged up i activated it and then waited for it to fully charge which was surprisingly fast"

"what also i didn't understand was that when you buy the fire it has "with special offers" in its description"

"sadly transferring files from my pc to the fire 8 is not just drag and drop exercise"

"i bought this hoping it would be a lot better than the fire hd7 the difference between the two devices in terms of performance is to my mind minimal although the screen is noticeably larger"

"in show mode whilst on its stand it is no better than one of those digital photo frames popular ten years ago but even then it dims the photos not configurable so it can present some inane headlines about who has been kicked out of the jungle won a dance on strictly"

"after dropping my 7" one for the umpteenth time the screen cracked again"

"my biggest issue with this product is the customer services i received in relation to setting it up"

"so if i were to give you an advice think again if you wish i go for a 32gb storage as the price is much higher go for a memory card for extra storage"

"i am pleasantly surprised that it is actually quite a good little gadget it out performs my lenovo tablet in every way it connects to wifi and pairs with blue tooth devices without any problems it runs and plays amazon prime videos and netflix faultlessly"

"i actually thought this would be a gooden but it’s proved me wrong !"

"nothing how ever compared me for this in terms of being slow!"

"the only problem i could find is there is no google play sore available and some of the apps she used were not listed in the amazon fire store so 1 star deducted"

"i've now adapted mine so that it is much more versatile and it has more or less replaced my ipad it's just a shame they hobble it for most users"

"this seems like a tablet out of the dark ages the lag is so noticeable its hardly useable"

"however a real drawback is just how sluggish certain apps are to open"

"i can only assume to ensure improved marketing opportunities offered by hard wiring other apps to the home page"

"6 inch screen found it was very slow and no where near as resoonsive than my kindle"

"so the moral of the story is that should you be unlucky enough to receive a defective new kindle don't opt for a replacement: because it appears that you will receive a refurbished kindle instead of a new as a 'replacement'"

"i was livid as it's clearly foul play by amazon"

"sluggish performance and app reliability poor unresponsive and requires full power off and restart to resolve downgraded to 1 star"

"the battery is it's biggest let down"

"don't waste your money on more expensive tablets"

"then they say they can’t authorize a replacement because there’s an error with my card details and ask for another card which i don’t have since i have no need for any more since my visa debit card is all that i’ve ever needed"

"i am bitterly disappointed"

"i don't want to be rude to amazon but i have to"

"i understand it may be possible to get round some of these issues by "side loading" the google play store but this is far from straightforward"

"we fixed that by buying a tough imitation leather folder which happily came with a free tempered glass screen protector"

"it has a slow reaction time you need to have some patience with this and it takes an absolute age to charge"

"in many respects for what i use it for tv watching catchup apps plus youtube it should be a slam dunk in that this should fully meet the bill but it has some really bloody annoying habits which mean i dont end up using it as much as i could"

"so something i was given forever i've lost because er amazon withdrew underground"

"it seems to play prime video without too many issues and wi fi is strong and reliable"

"even indoors if what you're watching is a bit dark like peaky blinders the picture loses a lot of detail"

"5 gb when i ordered a 16 which i'm annoyed about this is where the star is lost"

"really annoyed with this"

"i have a 6 year old fire 7hdx which actually had nothing wrong with it apart from it was no longer supporting certain features"

"i would think someone with good knowledge of computers this might be easy but not necessarily for everyone"

"yet another one thrown away!"

"all i can say is that some people are very picky and are never satisfied with anything they buy"

"i had been so nervous updating as i was worried i would lose so much on my original kindle"

"even me who is technically pretty illiterate"

"the deal breaker for me was the unreliable bluetooth"

"ha if it lets you do that even ridiculously slow and laggy ui is clunky to the point it's laughable it's like going back in time to netbook standards"

"what is there is fine but there's lots of basic stuff missing which if you want to do a bit of business stuff as well is a major deficiency"

"in the first week i was encouraged to watch an amazon prime film through my kindle something i have never bothered with preferring to view on large screen smart tv"

"you don't loose your library"

"i would definitely not recommend it!"

"i only realise they're there when i'm having trouble unlocking the tablet because the screen blanks which from a google seems to be a common annoyance"

"wifi was great in hotel but found bluetooth connection a bit hit and miss for fitbit has to use my phone for that and also hotmail did not have same functionality but for price was delighted with it and half missed my ipad"

"i will be sending it back and asking for a new one"

"the special effects thing doesn’t bother me at all i mostly ignore it and there’s an option to remove it for £10 extra"

"worse still there is no simple way to communicate this problem to the developers"

"that said there's adverts everywhere you look such as when you're logging in which i hate and it just feels cumbersome overall"

"perhaps the worst aspect is that when you now turn on the tablet it blast out a sound much to not only your annoyance but everybody in the room with you and this sound is not controlled by the general volume controls nor can it turned off via settings"

"slightly better than the 7 i had i disagree with the other comments suggesting it is worse than the 7"

"i choose the red because it's easier to find no more shouts of 'has anyone seen my kindle' when it first arrived i couldn't turn on weird because buttons are in the same place"

"i have spent most of a day on the phone or on online chat to amazon helpline operatives who have been totally useless"

"i put a simple game on it and had to give up playing as it was so slow to respond "

"from the scrolling and coming on its just so sluggish"

"as i have just returned the 2nd failed fire i have decided to recharge my original kindle paperwhite for now in the hope that amazon will look at the quality issues of their kindle fires"

"even though i got a replacement from a faulty device the new one still doesn't charge very quickly and the battery drains much faster than my previous fire"

"what i do notice is that there are a ton of amazon related apps and advertisements on the hd 8 that i did not have to contend with on the hd 7 so i am not too happy with that nonsense"

"the sound is not good could be a little louder sound quality is not very good"

"i suppose it's £79 for a reason i'd return it if i could"

"i do find that it's not always great for reading outdoors as the paperwhite unless in the shade"

"i retained ownership as i do not want to see the lovely screen damaged in his temper and bizarrely the day i bought this my nexus stopped charging and is in the tech hospital for diagnosis"

"the built in speakers are nothing special but that's not a big deal as i normally use ear buds"

"picked up this tablet last minute before we went on holiday as our previous one smashed"

"got this to replace my lenovo tab 3 this is slllooowwww also no grand theft auto even though on my original fire all bought now nowhere😒operating system browser stinks"

"my car has a built in sat nav but i find the screen too small"

"my main grievance with this device is that i cannot access the large volume of music i've already purchased from amazon"

"comes full of annoying amazon "pop up ads" only good as a cheap small movie player"

"amazon have only given access to a very limited number of apps of their choosing through their own app download store"

"this is my 2nd kindle fire along with my paper wight which i use for just reading"

"as a basic device at a cheap price it's ok particularly if you use it for watching previously downloaded content"

"it eventually gave up the ghost and had to be replaced at my expense as out of warranty time"

"i've returned it as a result"

"so in my case my banking apps high street stores utilities apps act i am unable to download"

"just a scam"

"impression of amazon takes a nose dive frustration increases proportionally"

"disappointing and i am not sure i would reccomend this product to anyone"

"i feel i have been totally mislead"

"if i hadn't thrown away the box i would have sent it back"

"constantly pinging me notifications about delivered parcels even though i remove the notification"

"the icons once large dominant and offering clarity are now small and insignificant"

"so many fantastic authors out there that because of where they were in the bookstores is why i missed so many"

"now i've got it i have to say i'm very disappointed with it"

"but don't load multiple users and or alexa or it will be overworked now it is worth the money!"

"but as i say this is a small niggle the pros of my new tablet far outweigh the cons"

"do not buy st time i used it my amazon account got hacked screen whent white around had a worning from microsoft saying device made my account unsecure factory reset device decided to try again then it happened smoke burning smell and flames yes flames everywhere do not buy as i threw it in kitchen sink"

"this is a basic tablet that does exactly what i wanted it to do watch films series when i am out and about but it doesn't do it particularly well but for the price i can't really complain too much"

"i hadn't anticipated being bombarded with so much advertising for "special offers" mostly cheap starter options for subscription services with higher fees if not cancelled within 3 months etc"

"this tablet is painfully slow to the extent that it is almost unusable"

"check your apps on the app store to see if they are still there before wiping your old device and backup to your pc don't rely on the fire backup restore"

"to begin with the reflective screen meant i couldn't read outside on the balcony but the easily applied tech armor anti glare screen dealt with that"

"as usual the setup proceeded well except it froze part way and had to be reset"

"* with the introduction of the 8th gen android decide to add protection to their software and after following the recommended procedures of installing the micro card the card cannot be removed from the device without wiping the card and rendering it useless * at the time amazon customer service unaware of this situation and completely at sea with a solution * great help from the card manufacturer a new card sent f"

"i wanted something which was less desirable for thieves and which i wouldn't worry too much about carting around on holiday"

"i only read books on it so it is giving me way more trouble than it should"

"amazon say this is because the developer has removed the apps from the appstore and there's nothing they can do about it but it means they no longer exist in the cloud"

"the only way to avoid the bloatware is to reinstall android on it and google play services but by the time you have done that you may as well buy another tablet which is half decent"

"the wifi seems slower than any of the other devices i have including an old crusty ipad2"

"but the app requires location services to be turned on and the fire prevents location services in child profiles"

"the screen display shows the wrong temperature by a long way and the wrong weather graphic"

"so why is it let down by poor battery life you can watch the % power falling as you use the tablet and the fact you must use amazon's silk browser?"

"purchased as an alternative to an ipad mini which i already have i always knew this little tablet would be a little underpowered when directly compared but for the price it's perfect for requirements as a media playing tablet for around the house or traveling"

"i had this bought for xmas last year and now i seem to be having problems with it whilst i am using it it stops and says reconnecting or it will freeze i need to know what this problem is and will it still be under gaurentee as its very frustrating being in the middle of something and it has to reconnect as my internet connection is very good also computer not needing to reconnect at the same time or i would have blamed my internet "

"i had a choice of either a kindle upgrade downgrade more like or an ipad mini"

"my first delivered fire hd 8 was faulty it wouldn't set up properly and corrupted my sd card"

"this is the 10th i think fire device i have had"

"as all my kindle books are automatically transferred when you set up i now use this instead of my kindle which is starting to be a bit erratic"

"but amazon's youtube app doesn't it doesn't even work with my fire stick"

"maybe now ram prices are not ridiculous this might be rectified in newer models"

"i've done that and to be honest it's not really made much difference browsing speed is unacceptably slow"

"slow sluggish and not fit for purpose"

"in spite of the limitations the fire hd 8 is outstanding for people who want apps that really matter moreover because of its price it’s not a disaster if you lose or break it"

"😩 this one is so unbelievably slow and unresponsive i really really hate it"

"now i know a lot of people are going to say that not much but try it when you are trying to open an email or use any of the other apps after a while it will just get on your nerves"

"however after 10 minutes or so it stops working and puts you into an infinite loop of logging in only to be thrown back to the login screen and asked to login again and again and again"

"most annoying is that you can't root it and put on a custom rom i"

"as i have just returned the 2nd failed fire i have decided to recharge my original kindle paperwhite for now in the hope that amazon will look at the quality issues of their kindle fires"

"it can be glitchy having asked me to register and set up the device 3 times after intial set up for no reason the odd screen freeze and failing to load apps or retain info all happen"

"yes while it sucks in so many ways i use this device as a general around the house device using the internet browser for gerneral searches along with using the e reader video streaming and shopping apps"

"on this tablet within 24 hours there were bugs with using it turns out a unstoppable 'fire os' software update had broken something weird typing errors were happening such as instead of typing 'hello how are you' the tablet would add random characters so this would appear as 'hhelllo ho$ are yoou' also scaling issues viewing web pages ironically only happened on amazons website in 'desktop' view hold your finger down and it zooms in erratically until it canna take no more captain"

"99 for this tablet so really for that price i can't see how anyone can give less than 5 stars or a negative review!"

"so far i mostly use alexa for answering simple questions and ringing up my kids to annoy them :"

"the only problem i could find is there is no google play sore available and some of the apps she used were not listed in the amazon fire store so 1 star deducted"

"oh i miss my hdx7 if served me well for 5 years"

"it is perhaps best to start with what the fire hd 8 isn't it isn't an apple ipad nor is it a microsoft surface or a samsung galaxy"

"i should say at this point i have taken the option of adding a large sd card thank you amazon a very appreciated facility and one of the top choice filing system browsers in case this affects anything"

"the silk web browser is terrible though v slow"

"i don't understand the mixed reviews this tablet has received unless the buyers are looking to play high end games on it"

":' he hasn't complained about the tablet or mentioned any short comings so he is a happy bunny!"

"the screen is another thing to note if you don't expect the retina uhd types then you're fine you don't actually need a mega hi res display on a small device to see everything perfectly well so really don't worry about it"

"the buttons are quite cumbersome and have to be pressed quite hard to work"

"simply blow away buy the value that this tablet offers"