Amazon Fire HD 10 (2021)

“Amazon updates the Fire HD 10 to deliver a very good tablet for $150, as long as what you want to do is control Alexa and consume Amazon books and media. Even without the Google Play store, it's the best tablet you can get for less than $200.”

“I sound like a hypocrite with the rating I just slapped down, but if you want or need what each part of the bundle provides, why the heck not? Buy the darn Fire tablet for playing videos or reading ebooks. Maybe you'll use the wireless keyboard with it. Maybe you'll pull it from the folio and use it with something else. That's the magic of Bluetooth after all. The same thing goes with the Microsoft 365 subscription: who said you had to use it exclusively with the Fire HD 10? We're not the Fire OS Police (ha). You might as well use Office on something more responsive. If you aren’t familiar with Fire tablets, they can provide the same basic functionality as your smartphone on a larger screen. And with Amazon’s brand at the forefront, there are certain things I’d do here that I wouldn’t on most other tablets like read an ebook or watch Prime Video.”

“The Amazon Fire HD 10 has a vibrant display for reading and video streaming, but it comes up short on app selection and web browsing.”

“The Fire HD 10 is still one of the best budget tablets you can buy, offering a lot for not much money. It has an improved design, slightly better performance and other small upgrades – even if a higher resolution rear camera and Bluetooth 5.0 won’t matter to many. If you want a 10in tablet to access popular entertainment and social media apps then it will do the job very well indeed, as long as there is support for the apps you use the most. In 2021 there typically will be, although some of the most popular mobile games are not available. What about as a productivity device? The Fire HD 10 Plus does a surprisingly good job, so long as your definition of productivity is using a word processor, spreadsheet and sending emails: using Microsoft 365, essentially.”