Amazon lights up new Fire tablets
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Amazon has pretty much abandoned of the high-end tablet space since the retirement of 2014's second-generation Fire HDX, focusing instead on low-end devices with enough power for content consumption. This trend continues with the release of the retailer's new Fire 7 and Fire 8 tablets. Both machines pack 1.3 GHz quad-core SoCs of undisclosed provenance and microSD card slots for extra storage. Amazon says the updated IPS displays on the new units deliver better contrast and crisper text than the outgoing models. Perhaps the biggest news is that Amazon added its Alexa assistant to the new tablets.
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