While the battery capacity hasn't increased, as with the Fire 10, Amazon has managed to improve the tablet's battery life through software updates - it's now rated for up to 12 hours for mixed use, up from 10 hours. You can get the HD Plus with a wireless charging dock that turns the tablet into an Echo Show. ![]() At 355g, or about 12.5 ounces, the new Fire HD 8 weighs a touch less than its 363g predecessor. The new Fire HD 8 has the same (1,280x800-pixel resolution) HD display of the previous model and a microSD expansion slot for additional storage up to 1TB (the previous model supported up to 512GB). But it's still a step down from octa-core 2.0GHz MediaTek 8183 processor found on the HD 10. It's a definite bump up from the 1.3GHz MediaTek 8163 processor in the previous HD 8. The new quad-core MediaTek 8168 processor with 2GB of RAM is supposed to deliver a 30% speed boost and also help with multitasking, too. ![]() The HD 8 gets the same iterative changes that the HD 10 got, including improved Wi-Fi performance, Amazon says, thanks to a second antenna: One is activated if you're holding the tablet in landscape mode while the other is used if you're holding it in portrait mode.
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