#FIRE HD 10 REVIEW BLUETOOTH#
The upside is that you can still use the keyboard while it’s detached from the tablet, and it can work double duty as a keyboard for other Bluetooth devices. Unlike the iPad’s Smart Keyboard, which talks to the tablet through a set of connector pins, the Amazon keyboard’s Bluetooth connection means you’ll have to charge the keyboard’s battery on occasion-Amazon says it lasts for 400 hours-and turn off the keyboard when the tablet is detached, otherwise the on-screen keyboard won’t appear. While the keyboard is smaller than that of a full-sized laptop, it has a decent amount of key travel, and I didn’t find myself making too many typos. It has a bit of weight in the base so it doesn’t tip over in your lap, and you can pull the tablet apart from the keyboard to use by itself. The case portion has a woven back that feels slightly like leather, and the keyboard attaches to the tablet’s bottom edge with a set of magnetized hooks, turning the whole thing into a tiny clamshell laptop. The Productivity Bundle gets you a Bluetooth keyboard case made to fit the Fire HD 10, and it’s actually pretty nice. You might notice the screen lagging slightly behind your finger while scrolling through apps, and if you’re trying to multitask, apps can sometimes take a few seconds to reload each time you switch. It has a 10-inch display that’s slightly brighter than the previous Fire HD 10, and it now includes more memory-3GB-to help with switching between apps and browser tabs. It’s a basic slab of plastic and glass with a pair of speakers on the top edge and cameras on both the front and back sides. But it doesn’t have much reason to make getting work done a focal point.Īmazon’s actual tablet hardware is fine. Amazon, whose hardware products primarily serve as vessels for consuming its own content offerings, has plenty of incentive to sell you a tablet cheap and then make it as appealing as possible to pay for movies, music, and ebooks. While the idea of a cheap productivity tablet is intriguing, the Fire HD 10 isn’t up for the job. But unless your computing needs are extremely basic, Amazon’s app ecosystem will feel too limiting, and its lack of any Google apps could make it a nonstarter. Perhaps there’s a subset of users for which that proposition holds up. And at $220 for everything, it’s less than half the price you’d pay to buy Apple’s cheapest iPad ($329) and outfit it with a Smart Keyboard ($159).
The implication is that Amazon’s tablet-best known until now as an inexpensive media-consumption device-can help you get some work done too.
Last month, Amazon released a new version of its Fire HD 10 tablet, and with it, a new “ Productivity Bundle” that includes a detachable keyboard case and one-year subscription to Microsoft 365, a subscription service that includes Microsoft’s Office apps.
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