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Fire Tablet HD8Plus

Started Oct 3, 2020 | Discussions thread
OP TacoTruck Forum Member • Posts: 69
Re: Fire Tablet HD8Plus

CAcreeks wrote:

Not sure if I would buy another tablet, but Amazon's pricing sure is attractive.

We have had a single tablet in the house since the iPad 3, so seven or eight years. When I bought a Harmony hub two years ago, I added a couple of HD8 tablets to use as remotes to the hub or to cast other video apps to the TV. I picked the HD8 tablets up for $25 and $35 through a couple of promotions I saw on SlickDeals and the hub was from a slickdeal as well

Having a single remote for everything is simply great. Having a graphical interface instead of having to remember channel numbers is even better. The only thing missing with the Harmony hub is a TV schedule. Mostly though, with most all TV/cable stations having apps and on demand programing, we don't really use the TV for much channel surfing any more.

I bought a Fire Tablet HD10 after that to use mostly as a second TV and kindle reader. Pre pandemic, I would download videos from Netflixs, or Prime Videos, plus a long playlist on Spotify, to watch/listen to at the gym while on an elliptical machine. Now I use the tablet on my bike at home which is now on a stationary bike stand. I cook as well and use the tablet in the kitchen for recipes.

The new more squarish shape of the HD8plus is more like holding an iPad mini, which has always seemed the perfect tablet shape and size for reading. The longer 8 inch Android tablets have more torque when holding them in portrait mode. The ipad mini and now HD8plus just sit in the hand easily.

The wireless charging of the HD8plus has also been something I have wanted. It's not the plugging in and out, it the wires that aggravate me. It seems like I am always having to fish out a charging cable from behind some big chuck of furniture that it has fallen behind. Being able to throw the tablet in the wireless charging stands we already have. is a large plus.

I think Prime Day has Fire Tablets at 45% off. I will check the first day to see if the HD8plus is on sale and buy a second one to replace our second older HD8. After I get the HD8plus I will trade in the older tablet.

Normally I would send the older tablets to someone I know, instead of trading them in, but the older HD8 tablet isn't really good enough for general use. It was fine for what we used it for, just not willing to pass it on to family. The HD8plus I will give out when the time comes.

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