There’s a headphone socket or Bluetooth for connecting your own headphones.
Stereo speakers in the top are fairly loud and clear, but lack bass and sound a little shrill when turned up to maximum. It won’t beat the screen on a top-end tablet, but the LCD display is crisp and bright enough with wide viewing angles to make the most of sharing movies and TV shows indoors.
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The full HD 10.1in screen has a 16:10 ratio that’s perfectly suited to watching video, meaning you get a bigger picture than you would on a similarly sized 10in screen with a squarer 4:3 ratio (such as an iPad). The plastic is hard wearing and while there’s some flex in the body, it feels like it can take a bit of rough and tumble just fine. A range of own-brand cases can put a cover over the screen that folds into an effective kickstand. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĪt 9.8mm thin, 504g in weight and 262mm long, the Fire HD 10 is fairly easy to hold on a couch or pack for the commute. Dropping the old microUSB for USB-C charging, which has become the standard for practically everything, is a step in the right direction. In fact, side by side with the previous version released in 2017, the only things that separate them are a USB-C socket instead of the old microUSB for power and a new paint job (now available in subtler black, twilight blue, plum and white rather than bold primary colours). The £150 2019 Fire HD 10 doesn’t break the mould. Now in their ninth-generation, Amazon’s Fire tablets follow a tried and trusted formula: undercut the competition on price with a good enough screen, good enough performance and Amazon’s version of Android, Fire OS, wrapped in a robust plastic body. Amazon’s cheap-but-good-enough media tablet gets a much-needed speed boost and updated software for 2019, doing just enough to make the Fire HD 10 still the budget tablet to buy for bigger-screen video watching.
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