Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Browse the reviews of this tablet and you'll quickly discover that your happiness with it will entirely depend upon your expectations. If you're looking for a tablet that can play videos beautifully, present a hard-back book sized version of your kindle content, shop Amazon with ease (of course) and respond to your Alexa commands, you'll likely be very pleased. If you're entrenched in the non-Amazon Android tablet universe and expecting the same functionality, you're most likely going to be disappointed. I was surprised at a few things that were on my old Fire HDX 8.9 that I didn't find on this model. There is no HDMI port to pipe video to a tv (something I used a lot with my old unit), and no mirroring capability to speak of. The screen resolution is lower, 224 compared to the previous 323 ppi. I found the videos I watched to be very good quality, though. You wouldn't notice the lack of resolution unless you were previously used to working with a high-res tablet. I was really hoping that the Alexa integration on the Fire HD 10 would extend to Spotify, but that is not the case. Other than opening the app, there is zero integration. What has me boxing up the unit to send back to Amazon, though, is something I didn't realize would be a big deal: there is no keyboard button to voice type or voice search on this tablet. The silk browser has come a long way, and I enjoyed using it, but the lack of voice search combined with a clunky keyboard that cannot be replaced by third-party keyboard apps is a dealbreaker. I was hoping the Alexa feature may substitute for this, but it is clumsy at best. Attempts to search the web inevitably lead me back to related product pages for the Amazon store. I had to work a bit to get to the web results I wanted. If you are buying this unit for long plane rides or to pass the time, at this price point picking one up is a no-brainer. It is very very good for what it was designed for. If you want not only a media consumption device but a tablet that can function as a customizable portable computer, you might find it somewhat limiting.