Amazon Fire 7″ 8GB Tablet For Just $39.99 Shipped
This was selling for $49.99 yesterday, and it has 4.2 star ratings.
-Beautiful 7″ IPS display (171 ppi / 1024 x 600) and fast 1.3 GHz quad-core processor. Rear and front-facing cameras.
-All-new Amazon Underground, a one-of-a-kind app store experience where over $10,000 in apps, games and even in-app items are actually free – including extra lives, unlocked levels, unlimited add-on packs and more
-Enjoy more than 38 million movies, TV shows, songs, books, apps and games
-8 GB of internal storage. Free unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with Fire devices. Add a microSD card for up to 128 GB of additional storage.
-Updated user interface – Fire OS 5 designed for quick access to your apps and content plus personalized recommendations that make it easy to discover new favorites
-Up to 7 hours of reading, surfing the web, watching videos, and listening to music
-Stay connected with fast web browsing, email, and calendar support
Does this come with amazon prime?
No, but I would suggest only getting this if you have Prime (as most of the features are unlocked for prime members)
Can this be sideloaded with the Android Play store and/or Microsoft store? The Amazon store is a lot more limited in the apps they have.
If you are looking for a cheapo device with truly low expectations this is great.
If you are expecting a performance tablet at an extreme discount price you are in for disappointment.
You can let your kids use it with the highly customizable amazon free time , although I suggest you avoid freetime unlimited, but you should know freetime is very buggy and can be annoying, especially when there is no wifi, which seems to make it even more buggy.
Yes, but you’ll have to buy Prime first.
I unsure how easy this is to load Gooogle App Store but I came across this. Could someone more tecnically inclined read and let us know if it only takes downloading and ckicking on a batch file(s)?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/amazon-fire-2015-tips-tricks-t3214544
Is this a good decide for a toddler-aged child to use on an airplane?
I got one of these for my wife when it was on sale for $34.99. I was able to load CyanogenMod Android, and it’s fantastic. It’s much faster than it was on the Fire OS, and you can get the Google Play store and run all of the normal android apps. Plus you don’t have to put up with all of the Amazon ads. Don’t expect it to outperform a tablet that costs 10x the price, but it’s a remarkably nice 7″ tablet for $40.
@Sarah: No.
They some kind of California fee for recycling fee of $3 ! What the heck is that? Another Al Core tax???
What the heck is an electronic recycling California fee? Another Al Gore tax?
@Dave
@Wingit
Installing Google Play is relatively easy. I used the “longer method” in post #4: http://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/installing-google-framework-playstore-t3216122
The batch file is supposed to work, but i did not want to remove ads, because i kind of agreed to have them by buying at the cheaper price. Besides, the ads are only on the lock screen.
I’m a big fan of the $99 nexus 7
I’m running marshmallow
Install these 4 files using ES file explorer, and you have google play store.