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Amazon Fire HD Tablets
By: Dr Z Date: November 3, 2019, 12:26 pm
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Just like old times eh?
Amazon have just refreshed their tablet line up, and are selling
some of the previous gen ones off pretty cheaply. To be fair,
they do seem to outperform anything else you'll get at even
their RRP Price point, with the one caveat being they run Fire
OS on top of an older version of Android, rather than the latest
versions. Google Play store is not officially supported, but
easily added I understand.
Anyway, the ones they are selling are officially refurbished,
but word is that they are probably just the last of the old gen
stock, sent in plain packaging, not sure how true that is but a
few people are saying this.
They are selling the 8" for £49, and the 10" for £79. I used a
promotion to order via the app and get £10 off, plus used a Free
trial of Amazon Prime to get a 10" for £69 including next day
delivery too, but there is an option for Free standard delivery
too.
Hope this is useful to someone.
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Re: Amazon Fire HD Tablets
By: doc Date: November 3, 2019, 3:58 pm
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[quote author=Zoidberg MD link=topic=195.msg5783#msg5783
date=1572805563]
Just like old times eh?
Amazon have just refreshed their tablet line up, and are selling
some of the previous gen ones off pretty cheaply. To be fair,
they do seem to outperform anything else you'll get at even
their RRP Price point, with the one caveat being they run Fire
OS on top of an older version of Android, rather than the latest
versions. Google Play store is not officially supported, but
easily added I understand.
Anyway, the ones they are selling are officially refurbished,
but word is that they are probably just the last of the old gen
stock, sent in plain packaging, not sure how true that is but a
few people are saying this.
They are selling the 8" for £49, and the 10" for £79. I used a
promotion to order via the app and get £10 off, plus used a Free
trial of Amazon Prime to get a 10" for £69 including next day
delivery too, but there is an option for Free standard delivery
too.
Hope this is useful to someone.
[/quote]
helpful to me , thanks will be getting one , I like the fire
tablets they are pretty good . Just wish they properly supported
google play
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Re: Amazon Fire HD Tablets
By: Dr Z Date: November 4, 2019, 5:21 am
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Last year we replaced the wife's iPad mini with a Fire HD 8, and
I have been pretty impressed with it, She loves it.
I intended to put the Play Store on it, but to be honest just
haven't needed to, its easy to find .apks for apps that aren't
on the Amazon store. For me though, I do like the Google
services, so it will really just be a case of seeing if I can
live without them on a tablet. at £70 its worth a punt.
#Post#: 5799--------------------------------------------------
Re: Amazon Fire HD Tablets
By: doc Date: November 4, 2019, 9:19 am
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[quote author=Zoidberg MD link=topic=195.msg5795#msg5795
date=1572866478]
Last year we replaced the wife's iPad mini with a Fire HD 8, and
I have been pretty impressed with it, She loves it.
I intended to put the Play Store on it, but to be honest just
haven't needed to, its easy to find .apks for apps that aren't
on the Amazon store. For me though, I do like the Google
services, so it will really just be a case of seeing if I can
live without them on a tablet. at £70 its worth a punt.
[/quote]
Yeah problem with finding APK's for sideloading is so many a
rife with spyware, keyloggers and adverts now, they can become a
real pain , to be point where you pretty much have to factory
reset to get rid of the things , as a rule ( after being burned)
I will only use official apps.
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