From the Amazon Press Room:
Amazon today announced two new additions to its Fire Tablet lineup—the all-new Fire 7 and all-new Fire HD 8. Amazon’s best-selling tablet is now even better—Fire 7 features a thinner and lighter design, an improved 7” IPS display with higher contrast and sharper text, longer battery life with up to 8 hours of mixed use, 8 GB of storage with support for up to 256 GB of expandable storage, and better Wi-Fi connectivity, plus Alexa—all for only $49.99. The all-new Fire HD 8—the next-generation of Amazon’s highest customer-rated tablet—offers a stunning 8” HD display with over 1 million pixels, a quad-core processor, up to 12 hours of battery life, 16 GB of storage with support for up to 256 GB more, plus Alexa—now only $79.99. Both Fire Tablets are available for pre-order starting today.
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Alexa makes it easy to have your favorite entertainment right at your fingertips. With a simple long-press of the home button, you can ask Alexa to play your favorite movie or TV show, read aloud the latest audiobook you’ve been reading, open a game or app, turn off the lights, or adjust the temperature controls. You can even ask Alexa for the news, weather, jokes, questions, and more. Alexa provides natural-language responses, combined with on-screen information on the tablet’s display—ask for the weather and see the week’s forecast, ask to play a song and see the album cover. Since bringing Alexa to Fire Tablets last year, customers have asked Alexa for millions of songs, jokes, the weather, trivia, movies, audiobooks, and more every week.
Link to the rest at Amazon Press Room and here’s a link to more on the new Fires.
I want one o’ them Fire HD 8’s. Not that I need another tab, but hey, the price for the features is incredible. 🙂
I found that the app ES File Explorer (not any of the other file managers) will play the .mp3 files straight from the Kindle Fire.
I didn’t want to go through the cloud either. And the file explorer doesn’t do weird things to the ordering of the sound files, either.
you’ve probably given up on the idea, and I don’t blame you, but just in case, I thought I’d pass this on.
Thanks! That sounds great for my Fire.
My first thought was, what about those w/o 24/7 internet access. Karen and Martin give me a clue.
Sigh…
My hubbie gave me an Alexa Echo and I’ve been experimenting.
Note: I’m on capped rural satellite internet.
If I want to play an MP3 from my computer, I have to first upload it to the Amazon cloud so that Amazon can download it to offer it to me. Not good for my capacity issues.
And then, I listen to a lot of Swedish folk music. Try getting Alexa to understand those tune titles.
I’d love to play with the new toys of mainstream America, but not if it means becoming more of a mainstream American… 🙂
Another capped satellite user here.
When our Echo was new, my mom loved to use it to play music to encourage the canary to sing. She played the same two or three disks every day, for days straight. And every single play, it downloaded from the cloud again. My internet cap was busted in less than a week.
Living in the rural area is pleasant, but connected we ain’t….