14.04.2016 1:06

Successor of Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet

Yesterday afternoon Amazon has announced a new reader Kindle Oasis. And now the company is preparing to release Amazon Fire HD 8. A next-generation tablet benchmark GFXBench talked about some possible future trends.

Judging by GFXBench, the second generation of Amazon Fire HD 8 will get a more modern 64-bit chipset MediaTek MT8163 with a 4-core Cortex-A53 processor with a clock speed of 1.3 GHz and a graphics accelerator Mali-T720 MP2, which will replace the outdated procedure 4-core MediaTek MT8135 processor original gadget. For memory, the device will increase from 1 GB to 1.5 GB, and its 8-inch display will retain the same resolution of 800×1280 pixels.

Amazon has gone on quite a strange move and decided to reduce the built-in memory of the tablet from the previous 16 GB to 8 GB, of which users will be available to all 4.5 GB. Resolution unit decreased from 5 megapixels to 2 megapixels camera for video calls in succession Amazon Fire HD 0.3 uses 8 megapixel camera, as well as the operating system it will receive Fire OS 5.1 to Android 5.1.1 basis.

In other words, the second generation of Amazon Fire HD 8 will get a little better performance than its predecessor. However, the weaker the camera and the reduced size of the flash memory can make it even cheaper than the original Fire HD 8. While talking about this probably is too early.