By Jon Mundy
We’ve built up some pretty straightforward expectations for a new Amazon Fire 7 tablet. Each iteration is going to be a solid but basic mini tablet that acts as a 7-inch window onto the sprawling Amazon ecosystem.
But what we expect above all else is that a new Amazon Fire 7 is going to be extremely cheap. The new Amazon Fire 7 (2017) meets all of the above criteria, and it still starts at just $49.99/£49.99 (around AU$85, though with no word on an Australian release).
With these essential points ticked off, then, two questions arise: Is cheap and cheerful still enough in 2017? And also, what’s new?
The most helpful Fire 7 yet
- Alexa personal assistant comes to Fire
- Dual-band Wi-Fi improves web browsing considerably
Undoubtedly the headline addition with the latest Amazon Fire 7 is Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant. US users will have seen this already in previous Fire devices, but it’ll be a first for UK customers – though older models are also getting it as a software update.
Alexa is as impressively useful a tool here as it is on any other Amazon device, such as the Echo speaker or one of the more capable (and expensive) Fire tablets. From the very …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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