Amazon Launches Updated Fire HD 8 Tablet Now With Alexa Voice Services (hothardware.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday September 8, 2016 @09:00PM from the fire-sale dept.

MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: For the first time, Amazon's Alexa voice service is headed to a tablet. It's one of the standout features of Amazon's new Fire HD 8, a budget slate built to offer users all-day battery life, faster performance, and double the onboard storage of previous versions Fire HD tablets -- all for a low $90 price tag. The Fire HD 8 tablet's 8-inch HD (1280x800) IPS display is driven by a quad-core 1.3GHz processor and 1.5GB of RAM, and a capacious 4,750 mAh battery that is claimed to deliver up to 12 hours of mixed-use battery life. In addition, Alexa voice services works on the Fire HD 8 just as it does on other supported products, only here the voice assistant is conjured up by long pressing the home button. You can then task Alexa with reading the news, giving weather reports, playing songs, and so forth. The new Fire HD 8 32GB model is available to pre-order now for $90 with special offers (ads) or $105 without.

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Re:Don't forget the tax by GrumpySteen · 2016-09-08 23:42 · Score: 3, Insightful

US customers pay tax in addition to the list price, so they aren't getting these for $90.
Demanding that the UK get preferential treatment by paying the same $90 list price (20% of which will go to taxes, leaving Amazon with a sale price of $75, which is almost certainly a money-losing proposition) shows that you have a shockingly retarded understanding of economics.