Amazon has announced a new upgraded version of its Fire HD 8 tablet. It looks a lot like last year’s Fire HD 8 but there are few things which Amazon has changed, the biggest change is the new lower price tag $90 and have a better battery life, 50% more RAM and doubled the internal storage.

Amazon Fire HD 8

The Amazon Fire HD 8 has 8-inch widescreen 1280×800 pixels with High-Definition display, 16GB or 32GB storage options with support for up to 200GB of expandable storage via MicroSD card, Quad-Core 1.3GHz processor. Front and rear cameras are present, stereo speaker, better 4,750mAh battery for up to 12 hours (Previous generation Fire HD 8 had 3,210mAh battery), 1.5GB of RAM (50% more RAM than previous generation).

Having more RAM it means you’ll be able to load applications more rapidly, more storage means you’ll be able to store more data, music, movies, games and much more.

The Interesting Feature Alexa Addition

There is another interesting feature addition which isn’t available yet, but in the next few months: Alexa, the cloud-based voice service will soon add in Fire HD 8 tablet. You’ll be able to ask Alexa questions about the world around you. We can use voice commands to tell Alexa to play music, launch games, read Audiobooks, and deliver a weather report or news and many more things, etc. Four colors of Amazon fire HD 8 will be available – black, magenta, blue and tangerine and it ships from 21st September.