

Note: this review is of the 2019 model of the Fire HD 10. After a week of solid use, these are my thoughts on the Amazon Fire HD 10. I pulled out the credit card, hit the buy button, and started waiting impatiently beside the door. When I saw the company advertising a Fire sale (get it?), it finally pushed me over the edge. The best example of that? Amazon’s Fire range, most of which has had an upgrade in the last year and offers a lot of tablet for not a lot of money. That’s mainly because budget models have got a lot better since 2013, and cheap no longer has to equal terrible. I also wanted it to cost a lot less, because spending a few hundred dollars on a tablet these days feels extravagant. I no longer had to buy the smallest model, since I wasn’t living out of a backpack anymore. When it finally came time to buy another, both the tablet market and my needs had changed. Seven years, to be exact, since I’d walked out of a Best Buy in Vancouver, Washington with a new Google Nexus 7 tucked under my arm. It’d been a long time since I last bought a tablet.
