Amazon just gave the Fire HD 10 an overdue refresh and the headline story is one worth celebrating. After years sitting at 3GB of RAM — after starting with a measly 2GB all the way back in 2017! — this mid-tier tablet finally got bumped to 4GB, which Amazon has been pushing through slowly for seasons. Everything else stays largely unchanged: the familiar octa-core chip running at 2GHz, that same 10.1-inch FHD touchscreen you've known forever, and about 13 hours of battery life on a charge. The real win is that it actually charges faster now too — four hours for a full round instead of five on older versions. This isn't just some incremental software tweak; after nearly an entire decade the hardware finally stopped looking like archaeology from another era.
There are caveats to note before you hit buy and I want to be fully transparent with everyone here about them. The new model only comes in a 32GB configuration, while previous generations offered both 32GB and 64GB models — we asked Amazon if more storage is coming but there's nothing on the roadmap yet. It also costs $15 more than its predecessor at a list price of $155, which I actually find reasonable given how far this line has come. You are locked into lockscreen ads on purchase and while that would usually drive me crazy, honestly I own multiple Fire devices myself and have never found the ads intrusive or annoying in my daily workflow. This tablet isn't meant for heavy creative work but it excels as a low-friction media device — great for laying in bed watching your shows or handing to kids since these tablets are built reasonably durable around the edges. So if you need an affordable streaming machine rather than anything intensive this refresh is one of the better moves on the tablet market right now.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2207669/amazon-fire-hd-10-ram-refresh/
There are caveats to note before you hit buy and I want to be fully transparent with everyone here about them. The new model only comes in a 32GB configuration, while previous generations offered both 32GB and 64GB models — we asked Amazon if more storage is coming but there's nothing on the roadmap yet. It also costs $15 more than its predecessor at a list price of $155, which I actually find reasonable given how far this line has come. You are locked into lockscreen ads on purchase and while that would usually drive me crazy, honestly I own multiple Fire devices myself and have never found the ads intrusive or annoying in my daily workflow. This tablet isn't meant for heavy creative work but it excels as a low-friction media device — great for laying in bed watching your shows or handing to kids since these tablets are built reasonably durable around the edges. So if you need an affordable streaming machine rather than anything intensive this refresh is one of the better moves on the tablet market right now.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2207669/amazon-fire-hd-10-ram-refresh/