You should NEVER buy Amazon devices (including Fire tablets) at the list price unless you need them urgently. So, if you want to benefit from the USB-C charging for the standard version, you need to get a new power adapter/charger. 9W charger is only bundled with the Plus version.

But overall, very few owners complained about the battery life of the Fire tablets.Īlthough the port in the 12th Gen Fire HD 8 is USB-C, the bundled charger is only 5W for the standard version. Of course, the actual time you can achieve depends on the apps used, connection conditions, and screen brightness settings. So it is one hour longer than that of the previous gen. Slightly longer battery lifeįire HD 8 2022 (12th Gen) has a battery life of 13 hours. The GPU in the latest model is not changed. This may help if you often use the split-screen multi-window features.Īnyway, more CPU cores at the same clock speed will surely make the tablet potentially faster. Amazon claims this processor is 30% faster than the quad-core processor (MediaTek MT8168) in the previous generation of Fire HD 8 (Fire HD 8 2020). However, this chipset is not well documented. Faster processorįire HD 8 2022 (12th Gen) is now powered by a 2.0 GHz Hexa-core processor, MediaTek MT8169A. You may refer to this guide on how to use the new features in Fire OS 8. You can sideload Google Play Store on the 12th Gen Fire HD 8, as you did for previous generations of Fire tablets.

Please note Fire OS 8 does work with the Google Play store.

High-efficiency image file (HIEF) support.

You may check this guide on how to use and schedule the Dark Theme. You can use all new features and improvements in Fire OS 8 with the new Fire HD 8 2022 (12th Gen), e.g.,

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