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Not for internet, This tablet is fine for reading books but it is worthless for anything internet related. Terribly slow and prone to locking up. | FOS |
Not the best tablet, Too many ads. It would return to Home Screen on its own while playing your games. Hard to watch instructional videos on their Amazon app. Good for YouTube and Netflix | Ads |
Not compatible with Google android products, The products in the amazon apps store are not as good as those in the Google Playstore. This tablet is inferior to Google based Android products. | Apps |
Piece of junk., This is a piece of junk. The double tap is terrible. Poor design. | FOS |
Wouldn't even turn on, Really liked our old Fire 7 but wanted more storage capacity. So ordered this Fire8 Plus tablet based on good reviews but received it and it wouldn't turn on even after being charged for days and following troubleshooting tips. Returned to Amazon and am ordering another hoping its not defective. | Battery |
Garbage, This is constantly turning itself off. You can't read a book or play a game without having to sign yourself back in. I regret not getting an iPad when my last kindle died. Don't waste your time or money. | FOS |
Where's my year warranty, This tablet is junk and just stopped working and it supposed to have a year warranty so what do I do now | Battery |
Tablet not charging, I bought this in late Aug 2022. Jan 2023 it no longer charges. Amazon refuses to replace instead they want me to send it and have it evaluated. This could take up to 3 weeks. Not acceptable!! | Battery |
Disappointing, This version of kindle or at least the one I have is disappointing and frustrating! I've had several Kindles over the years and this one is the worst! It drops or closes games for no reason all the time! | FOS |
New Kindle Fire 10 HD a dud, First Kindle 10 was a Christmas gift. It had black horizontal and vertical lines across acreen. Returned and it could not ne repaired. Amazon sent me a new replacement. Received new replacement and this one was bad with a blue line down the screen. Returned for another replacement. In all fairness Amazon customer service was great and offered another repair or replacement. Hope the 3rd time is the charm. | Display |
So slow, So slow | FOS |
Not great, but okay!, I had purchased it for the kindle. I'm surprised it doesn't perform similar to the kindle app on my PC. It doesn't have the functions for different collections. | Apps |
good luck, it wasn't what I was expecting. you have to join and pay for just about everything. it's not like my old tablet where you can search the internet, emails or do anything | Apps |
My kids hate them, My nine and eleven year old kids are not fans of these. There are a lot of games that cannot be downloaded. | Apps |
Rep had no idea of how to help me type in the characters I could not hear or see, I was not able to get this kindle to download my info from existing account, | Setup |
I'm returning the 10" HD Paperweight, If I was just browsing the web or Amazon if Amazon had hooked me into their products earlier this MAY have been a sort of okay table. I needed a tablet to use with my Presonus Studio One 6 recording suite. There are many times when the engineer needs me to look at something he's doing in the booth when I'm on the road playing my own music. I wanted a tablet that could handle the software remotely. The Representative at Best Buy said "This is YOUR tablet, it supports the Presonus Apps." Either he lied or he is just that incompetent because the Kindle Fire supports almost NONE of the applications that I use on a daily basis. I bought this specifically for work and at work it's a slim brick. I can't even hook into a common security monitoring app that I have have on my work phone personal phone or PC. Put it this way. IF YOU HAVE ANY DEVICE THAT YOU USE WITH APPS FROM GOOGLE OR APPLE YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE YOU KINDLE FIRE HD TO INTERFACE WITH THEM. Much like the Chromebook, The Kindle fire is so proprietary to it's own applications that it leaves out half of it's own possibilities for growth. Fire's Operating system is NOT an Android system. Go with a Samsung, a Surface....ANYTHING other than a Kindle Fire. The OS is so bogged down in it's "Hooray Me! Look at me! Ain't I just the BESTEST little tablet you've ever seen!?" (in the voice of Mr. Meseeks) attitude that it came short of any kind of connectivity to the other 75% of devices in the world. If you started off with Amazon products and software this probably is a great tablet. To me it's something that my cat likes to sit on when I'm not around to push her off of it. | Apps |
Doesn't last 6 months., I bought this 5 months ago for light use, mostly kindle and a couple mobile games. It worked fine. Today I was reading, closed the case to bring it into another room, then opened the case to a black screen and it won't come on again. Just went from ok to completely dead within a few seconds for no discernable reason. I'm sure that's not at all by design, to build these products to fail so they have to be replaced in short order. What type of company would be so greedy? | Battery |
Not sure why, I'm not sure what is up wit h it . I bought it for my son so he could do his osmo on it but it won't even let you download a b y of the osmo app in the appstore | Apps |
Apps one by one not working in 4 months ownership, I think this will be the last kindle I will buy. The version isa lemon. I bought this kindle in early Oct 2022. My first problem, the weather channel app is no longer available. The only reason I bought a new kindle was because I had a freak accident with my previous one and the screen went wonky. By mid December I could no longer get the paramount app to play. It does just fine on my desktop. Now Disney is not working. I liked my other kindle because it was inexpensive and for the most part worked okay. But now, I'll just invest in a laptop and call it a day. | Apps |
Poor Parental Control, The functionality of managing the protection for kids is atrocious. They need to take a number from Google. Plus they try and charge you for every thing even protecting ur kids. Makes me sick | FOS |
Too many bugs., Has a mind of its own. | FOS |
I can understand why people do what they do to this device., I have recently purchased the Amazon fire HD 8 12th generation kindle tablet (2022 edition). This is a pretty decent kindle e-book reader, and audio book playing device. However I can understand why people purchase kindle fire tablets root them and turn them into android tablets. The hardware on the device is pretty decent for the price especially if you can get it for $59.99. As a tablet this thing is pretty danged useless. The amazon app store which is the only thing you have access to is nigh useless 1 in say 50 apps I have searched for are not in there, and of the ones i have phone 1% of them have been actually useful. (which is to say 1 app not including social media) I am incredible frustrated. I had bought a kindle fire tablet HD 10 when it first lanced and sent it back within 2 days. After 3 or 4 years or so I expected some advances to be made. In fact the only advances I have found are ummmm...... . I really can't think of any and that's not a joke this device. I really expected better of Amazon, and wonder if they haven't actually just secretly killed of the fire tablet department. Save yourself the frustration, and buy an android tablet. It's just easyer. | Apps |
Worse than a cheap Samsung tablet from 2016, The usability of this tablet is absolutely terrible compared to my old tablet from 2016. It's very limited and the apps on the main screen cannot even be removed or hidden. Nonetheless I'll be looking to get rid of this 1day old tablet. I saw the abundance of good reviews and expectations were high but I've never been so disappointed with a new electronic devic. | Apps |
Sent it back, I should have expected this to be cheaply made based on the price, but I have another kindle which is excellent so I just expected better. Feels like it was made by Playskool. Sent it back. Bought an iPad. | HW |
I returned the table because it is very slow and they never returned my money., Very slow. Very poor quality and they didn't even return my money even if I sent them to them by UPS. And I have the receipt. | FOS |
Does not mount or read uSD cards from previous gen Fire tablets, Will not mount uSD memory cards that that could be used and mounted in previous generation Fire tablets (7,8,10).... This means all the data, video, photos stored and used by my previous generation Fire tablets cannot be read. Very disappointed. Makes the newer gen tablet useless for me. | SD |
font was too small and customer service very helpful in walking me thru how to enlarge. . thank you, even at the highest font in the settings, the font isn't even a 12. I am older and usually read at 12 or 14 and it is too small...will have to return | FOS |
Amazon loads it up with all kinds of BS I don't want or need. I will never purchase this again., The tablet is great however Amazon loads it up with all kinds of things I don't want and can't get rid of. Not helpful just annoying. | FOS |
Not compatible with Android apps unlike previous Fire tablets, I've had 5 Fire tablets over the years and loved them. I bought this new Fire tablet specifically to play an Android app game. The app wouldn't load, so I contacted the Fire help desk where I learned that now only apps in the Amazon app store can be used with Fire tablets. The Fire tablet has been returned, and I bought a new Android tablet and am happily playing my game. I've never bought an Apple product because their technology only works with other Apple products, and it was disappointing to find out that Amazon is going down the same road as Apple. | Apps |
Didn't last 6 month never again, I mostly used it to store old family photos and books but now it's all lost | Battery |
Nothing good, It gets a lot of viruses and they didn't return my refund | Apps |
App crashing, I had to get a new tablet due to my sons old one burnt out over 2-3 years. Ordered the 8 (previously had the 10) He loves Roblox. . unfortunately the App crashes every time he tries to play a game. Also, a couple other apps that aren't Roblox have crashed on him too. Not happy at all with tablet performance but not sure if it's the apps or tablet itself. | FOS |
This thing sucks, Apparently we are all expected to be tec savvy now. It came with next to no instructions and the start up wizard only helped you connect to wifi nothing else. It crashed several times during set up. I am thinking about sending it back. This thing sucks | Setup |
Poor warranty, My tablet just died out of no where. It's 8 months old. According to Amazons website, there's a 30 day return policy! Not a happy camper | Battery |
Not a good product, Gave this as a Christmas present for my 5 year old and we are very disappointed. Since the very first use it is slow and kicks her out in the middle of playing her games. Instead of my child enjoying her tablet she does not even want to play it. Wasted money. | FOS |
Piece of junk, I tried it but honestly stick to the ipad. The features and functionality of this are horrible. It's a piece of junk. NO comparison to Apple products. | HW |
This doesn't have Pokemon !!!!! Super disappointed!!!!, Low score, it doesn't let you play Pokemon!!! | Apps |
doesn't last, I bought this kindle in June 2022. it is now January 2023 and doesn't work. flips from home to blank and back. I have bought kindles before but this will be my last. Of course you can't return them and there's no one to complain to. | FOS |
Lock Screen adds not removed after paying & activated, My adds still have not been removed after paying & actived | Ads |
Tablet stopped working. Will not charge or turn on . Bought less than 4 months ago., Product less than 4 months old. No longer works | Battery |
No YouTube TV app, The fact that there is no Google app for YouTube TV was a big disappointment. I even did my research to see that there were other YouTube apps available. But all of them were awful. While I would've used it with other apps, and even the browser occasionally, most of my time would have used it as a small TV with YouTube TV. So I returned it. | Apps |
Don't waste your money!, Any of the normal stuff you use everyday you can't download, No Chrome, No Square (for my business), I don't like it at all, Spend all this money and all you can do is watch movies | Apps |
Won't run Hulu app even with hourS of Amazon tech help. I RETURNED, Hated poor speaking "tech help", couldn't pronounce my name even after multiple corrections. | Apps |
Trouble, Nothing but trouble with this model | null |
Great tablet, horrible APP store, It's a shame that they made such a great and inexpensive tablet, and refuse to get APPS that people actually want. I am so sorry I bought this. I should have saved up and bought a refurbished IPad | Apps |
Buttons stating to fall off, The button starts coming off, touch screen does not respond after a month of use | FOS |
Ordered Nov18 - Dead on Jan 18., Lasted 2 months. Worked fine last night. Went to use it tonight and totally dead. It had been on the charger since I finished using it last night. Very disappointed. | Battery |
Don't buy, I decided to upgrade my tablet from a 8" to 10" for myself and my wife. Never had a problem with our 8" fire tablet, but wanted a larger screen. This tablet is slower than a slug. Constantly freezes. Very frustrating. It would be better served in the bottom of a bird cage. | FOS |
It worked for only 2 hours before half screen got dysfunctional, Very cheaply made product, I guess you get what you pay for. Only worked fine for 2 hours then half screen got dysfunctional | Display |
I tried to replace this tablet twice and got nowhere with site, Not as described. Slow | Order |
Disappointed, As a proud android user, I thought thos would be like that. No options for Android apps. No chrome, Google play, none of my shopping apps. So disappointed. I'm returning so I can get a true android tablet and just download my Alexa add ONS. | Apps |
Can't Remove Pre-installed Apps from Home Screen, Come on, I know every device nowadays comes with a bunch of pre-installed stuff that you can't remove, but at the VERY LEAST I should be able to remove it from the home screen so I don't have to look at them every time I use the device. I mainly use this for reading and watching YouTube, and it does those well enough, but it really loses me with this. You can drag them all into a folder to make them easier to ignore, but even the drag functionality is pretty bad, 90% of the time when I drag an icon into the folder it just switches them, instead of letting me add the app into the folder. Amazon, you have to do better with the little stuff | FOS |
POS, All the Amazon proprietary crap programming makes it a piece of junk could not download and run the app for KardiaMobile EKG DEVICE | Apps |
Poor quality control, Got the 8 inch he fire. Love the tablet. But the cord that was sent with it for charging does not fit!!!!! So I have to order a charging cord and hopes it fits. Thanks for the quality control. | Charging |
doesnt have 16GB of storage, The tablet functions well for its purpose. but it says the tablet is 16GB and ours is only 10 on top of that the system files takes up 9 gigs! leaving almost nothing for my kid to add games. i feel like this product is misleading! i didnt realize it didnt have 16 gigs until my son said his tablet wasnt downloading games and when i checked I was very surprised. It wont even let you delete apps that came with the tablet so you can free up space. Edit to add: i looked over the posting and i apparently missed the (9.6 gigs available to users) so i guess thats that, but i still think you should look for a different tablet. the system files make this tablet almost unusable. you could buy an SD card but from what ive read it wont allow you to move apps to the SD card just videos and pictures. | HW |
Our Kindle stopped working 1 month after replacement warranty expired., Had the product for about a year. This is not good enough... | Battery |
Annoying, I hate this tablet. Going to return it. It comes with pre-installed apps that uses storage and never use and you can't delete them. Amazon silk browser is terrible and cannot be deleted. I am not computer illiterate but so far haven't been able to install Google chrome. It keeps badgering me to register the tablet, and when I did, all the apps on the tablet appear on my fire stick and used all the stick storage. I deregistered it, but the apps are still on my fire stick and cannot be uninstalled. I will try to set it back to factory default and start over. Doesn't allow me to remove the app icons that I don't use from the home screen. When I turn it on, an annoying game suggestion pops up, and I can't find where or how to get rid of it. Silent scream!! Just found out one more thing...Amazon loads Audible and Goodreads, that you can't delete, then charges you for those memberships, then you have to cancel those memberships. The pros... Screen resolution is awesome, touch screen is responsive, it's fast, camera is great and amazing sound | Ads |
It doesn't use data only wifi and I hate the Amazon app store, I'm not impressed | Apps |
Does not 'remember' it has a formatted installed SD card!, Keeps forgetting my SD Card is in and formatted. Every I turn it on, it tells me to format my memory card. Thank goodness kept the previous generation of tablet. | SD |
BEWARE!, The new (improved?) operating system refuses access to all of my local library's digital services. These services represent 75% of my usage time on my old kindle. Is this change intentional? If so then shame on Amazon. I would never have purchased this device had I known its limitations. If this was unintentional, then FIX IT! My new kindle now spends 75% of the time as an electronic paperweight. | Apps |
SÚPER SLOW, Do not buy this… it's unbelievably SLOW … trust me I understand it's only 70$ but you can't even use it , it just freezes every time you even swipe! Bought a refurbished iPad instead | FOS |
clunky and forced features, I have been using the kindle fires fore several years and this is the 1st one that I am not happy with and will not be recomending to others. granted I am using a 3rd party charging dock but when I am using it I am having to routinely restart my kindle just inorder to unlock as it wont let me access the passcode screen unless I restart it. also as you can see in my picture I am unable to get ride of the device dashboard shortcut on the bottom of the screen, and yes it does cover part of the screen when watching videos (and if the video it's self has subtitles it gets in the way of reading them). it does have a nice screen and the battery life seems to be decently long but these other issues are to irritating and distracting for me to recomend this kindle fire. | FOS |
The product is defective. It will not come on., I have troubleshooted this product and it won't come on and I can't get it to charge. I need it replaced. I just purchased it on the 7th of January. | Battery |
Device Blacks Out, The device blacks out even when fully charged and often cannot be turned back on without plugging it in and waiting. I returned it to be fixed and the limited warranty expired 12/23/22. Initially, it out blacked out once per day and I would use my laptop. Now is blacking out multiple times per hour. I make sure all the vents are exposed and would like to know if there is anything else to be done. I really like the device. | Battery |
0 Stars, This replacement tablet is worse than the original! Time to switch to an iPad! | Refurb |
It's too slow for being so new., [[VIDEOID:b1e1b4d02d3b39defad9803f75513e0e]] | FOS |
Will use for reading books. The usefulness is gone with removal of Play Store App., Google Play Store app is no longer allowed to be downloaded. The apps I had on previous tablets are prohibited, suddenly. Not just games, but my medical, Medicare and prescription apps. I've bought 6, won't buy another | FOS |
These used to be good., I have purchased many of these fire HD tablets. Each successive one gets worse than the 1 before. One came in Chinese and it kept turning off. Got it replaced in English and it keeps turning off unexpectedly. Also, the blue shade keeps coming on at random times. Needs to be turned off completely. It's getting annoying that there are so many problems with this period I don't know that I would buy another one. | Display |
GARBAGE!! Total Garbage now after the forced update!! Skip Right over this now and get true Android., Skip this garbage and get a true Android device Unless you don't mind paying for something that Amazon still owns get this and enjoy Amazons Intrusions. For those who do not know Amazon has taken the ability to use custom launchers away and want to force the horrible homescreen and intrusive native Fire OS on you. Just think of what they are going to block you from next. I feel I am owed a refund on 7 different amazon fire devices. People need to change their old reviews to reflect the change and force them to do what is right. I will be. | FOS |
Customer services is horrible. If they ever call you back. What a joke., Tablet is fine. I bought and paid for no ads. Again. Ads everywhere. Also configured new tablet to already be present with all old configurations. This never happened. No wonder no one likes their job at Amazon. Always get quality products and BS service in return. ALWAYS. | FOS |
Buy an Apple, This is our 4th tablet from Amazon. This tablet lasted one year and one month before it died on us. We always kept it in a case. Never dropped. The tablet will not turn on. Have followed ALL instructions to get it to turn back on. Buy an Apple pay the extra money. This product is trash. | Battery |
No YouTube Kids - a dealbreaker for my daughter, The one thing my daughter wants is not offered - YouTube Kids. I “side loaded” Google Play onto the tablet, including all the other technical files you need to install. I got YouTube kids to work for about two weeks. And then it stopped working because of Google Play services update. So now it's just a tablet that sits on our shelf collecting dust. | FOS |
Disappointing, I purchased this for my father for Christmas but the adds for Alexa are out of control to the point that you don't even want to use the tablet. Yes, they offer the ability to to get the ad free tablet but it's $60 bucks to get ad free. Not worth it. | Ads |
Incompatible with older models, This is my 10th Fire Kindle purchase. This is the first time they changed the order of the buttons. The power button is now the first button, top right side, and volume control below that. It causes me confusionn. | HW |
Warranty issues, The product itself was fine. However, I learned when returning this refurbished Fire it takes two months to process the credit to my account. I'm assuming because it's refurbished. Would not recommend for that reason alone. Spend the extra money and get a new Fire. | Refurb |
Not a good tablet, The only app that will consistently open is Prime. Netflix, paramount and other streaming apps will not open. Not a good tablet at all. | FOS |
Terrible software, The Silk browser for these fire tabs is so bad. Also their app store is pathetic and depressing. Sent it back for a refund. Come on Bezos, you could do way better lol! | Apps |
Wants to tell me what to do, piece of junk, Wasted money. If you only want to shop at Amazon or read Washington Post it's ok, doesn't want you to shop Ebay or read Fox news | Apps |
Don't buy!, My son got water detected inside charging port but it's funny it never was around any liquid. They still have yet to replace or fix | Charging |
Bottom of the barrel tablet, It moves slow, among other annoying glitches. I ended up giving it away after 2 weeks of using it | FOS |
Don't waste your time and money,buy your kids a real ipad, Don't waste your time and money,buy your kids a real ipad | null |
Battery stopped charging, Worked great for a couple of months and then the battery would only charge to 23% and now it will not charge at all. | Battery |
Slooooowwwww!, Did not know that anything could become as slow as this tablet. Only owned a few months. | FOS |
100% frustrating junk, This thing sucks. It crashes every single time I use it. Dumb dumb dumb. | FOS |
Crappy Location Detection, As a whole the tablet has worked fine and this is my third and most likely last because no one can fix what should be a simple problem. The built-in weather thinks the default location of the device is in a different state from where I live. I tried working with Amazon support but no one has any working solution. If the most basic location services can't be fixed I don't see the value of using the device after so many years. | FOS |
Garbage, As far as browsing the Internet goes, if you want the slowest p.o.s. money can buy, this is it. SLOW to load pages. Battery goes from 100% to 50% in less than two hours. $100 doorstop. | Battery |
Faulty Screen, I've only had this tablet for less than one month. I've only used it a handful of times. All of a sudden the touch screen is not working? It's not dirty, not wet, I didn't drop it. All of a sudden, not working at all. How is this even possible | Display |
JUNK - STOPPED WORKING AFTER 26 DAYS, I have owned this for 26 days. Today the screen locked in landscape mode (auto rotate is on), won't show my home screen, won't show control button at bottom of screen - cannot do anything. Battery is at 41% so not low battery. Sending it back along with all the accessories I purchased. Do not waste your money! | FOS |
Everything I wanted, but a dead pixel right out of box, First thoughts are that it's reactive compared to some of the older models. But almost instantly o noticed that there was a dead pixel that was green at the bottom of the screen and a major eye soar. Pretty disappointed because had such high hopes. | Display |
Not worth the money, Video play very slow, I have to refresh or turn it off almost every time just to get some quality. Money wasted. | FOS |
Do not buy!, Died after barely 4 months. It will not turn on. Of course it's past the 90 days so I'm just out the money. This is not my first Kindle but it definitely is my last. | Battery |
Amazon's worst Product, I do not recommend it to anyone, Amazon's worst product, I don't recommend it to anyone, the screen stopped working after two weeks, they changed the product and the new one can't even play Amazon's own content, the customer service is the worst, they abandon the chat in the middle of dls consultation, they had me going over the issue with 7 different people and nobody gave me a solution or accepted my return, they kept me like this for 3 hours and they never gave me a solution, the worst purchase I have made in my life, I do not recommend it to anyone | Display |
No Good For School Work!, This tablet kept freezing, you're not able to load documents properly or edit them as need. Bought this to work my Google drive docs in class, I wouldn't recommend it for anything other than streaming and ebooks. | FOS |
An extremely slow tablet., The battery life is great, other features may also be not bad, but the speed is extremely slow, I wouldn't recommend anyone to buy this. | FOS |
Not compatible with some apps, but nothing states that!, I bought this for the sole purpose of using the Fire TV app to control the Firesticks. After extensive troubleshooting, I've come to the conclusion that it just won't work on this 7" tablet. I'm not sure if it's a resolution issue or what. The Fire TV app doesn't show up in the app store. When I pull it up online, it says "Currently unavailable. " If I try to transfer it from Amazon online, this device doesn't show as an option. When I finally saw "Compatibility" really small for the app and click on that, it has a red X by this tablet, while 10 shows a Green check. Very deceiving. The app states that it will work with 8th generation on and this is 12th generation, but it does not work! | Apps |
Garbage limited access, You can only use amazon app store so you get a fraction of games and apps that you would on google apps. Wont let me update Disney + so that app is useless and they restrict you from using VUDU which i have 800 movies saved and cannot access them . . i use the tablet as a small tv for traveling for my job . . everyday. . so this is useless for me ....just buy a samsung...woth the extra money...so disappointed | Apps |
Terrible for parents, Parental controls suck and apps do not transfer well to child profile. The machine is ridiculously slow from needing to install every app on both profiles. Terrible system design. I upgraded to the 10 so my daughter could type in Word but once I logged her in it refused access due to age. Now I can't change it. RETURNED. I will never buy another Fire Tablet. Absolute garbage product. | FOS |
It went bad, they didn't change the return and it's time they don't send me a refund, Fiasco | Order |
Charger doesn't work, it doesn't turn on, it's a trinket, Don't buy it, it's not worth the expense of so much to receive a product that only lasted 3 days!! Now it's a paper pose too expensive to use as a paper tread | Battery |
Its okay for the price, It works just fine for the price. I do NOT LIKE THE CONSTANT ADVERTISING. The lock screen is just advertisements for gambling, games etc. It is annoying. To use Microsoft apps its a huge headache to go through the process to get them added to the tablet - I ultimately gave up. Its fine for basic social media, nothing more. | Ads |