The Fire HD 7 packs a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, which lets you sample the 40,000 Instant Video titles and 500,000 eBooks available on the $100 annual service. At least you can easily pull up Amazon Customer Service from the drop-down settings menu, should you need to look up user guides or call or email support. Unfortunately, the MayDay feature, which provides instant video-chat help on Amazon's HDX tablets, is absent on the Fire HD 7. The Fire HD 7 sports Goodreads integration, so you can share your reading progress to the book-based social network or look up reviews of your current book with a single tap. If you're using X-Ray when jamming out to music, the song's lyrics will appear in sync with the track. A special Kids Edition of the HD 7 packs a full year's subscription to FreeTime Unlimited, which otherwise costs $10 a month.Īmazon will soon add a Family Library feature to the HD 7, which will allow you to link two Amazon accounts and easily share apps, games, books and Prime Instant Video content.Ĭlick to EnlargeAmazon's X-Ray feature makes a return on the Fire HD 7, allowing you to get the most out of all your media.įor books, X-Ray mode points out notable passages, characters and terms, while movies and TV shows are augmented with a list of actors, characters, background songs and fun facts via IMDb. The Fire HD 7 ships with a 30-day free trial of FreeTime Unlimited, which allows unlimited access to thousands of kid-friendly apps, games, and books hand-picked by Amazon. You can set specific time limits and bedtime hours to make sure Junior isn't glued to the Fire all day, and you can opt to lock away entertainment content until your child completes his educational goals for the day. As with previous Fire models, the Amazon FreeTime interface allows you to create up to four child accounts-and now, up to two for adults-on the tablet, with complete control over which books, games and videos your little one gets to use. MORE: 10 Tablets with the Longest Battery LifeĪmazon's tablets are usually among the most kid-friendly slates around, and the Fire HD 7 is no exception. Like with most Android tablets, you can pull down a quick settings menu from the top of the screen to quickly adjust brightness, Wi-Fi and music playback and check notifications. You can swipe up on the carousel to peruse all your apps at once, or use the designated tabs for categories such as Games, Apps, Books, Music and Videos at the top of the screen.Ī search icon at the top left of the interface lets you search for items across the Web, and your device. Click to EnlargeThe Fire HD 7 runs Amazon's Android-based Fire OS 4 Sangria, which places your most recently used books, apps and games in a large, easily navigable carousel within Amazon's signature gray-and-black aesthetic.
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