Amazon Fire HD 10 (2024) Review | Best Budget Tablet?

Reviewing Amazon's Fire HD 10 Tablet (13th Generation), fresh for 2024 with a UK price under £200. This affordable Fire OS device is ideal for families or keeping kids entertained, but the Amazon Fire HD 10 also makes some compromises to hit that budget cost.

If you haven't used one of these tablets before, you can expect a heavy emphasis of Amazon's own apps and services. If you don't use the likes of Prime Video, there are always alternatives - the Fire HD 10 2024 supports Netflix, Disney Plus, iPlayer etc. But note that there's no love for Google on that apps library!

You've got the Alexa assistant baked into the Amazon Fire HD 10 13th generation tablet, with Show Mode to turn it into a handy smart display or digital photo frame. You can also get gaming, although the Mediatek chipset is rather basic so expect juddery performance from more demanding games.

Battery life is respectable, offering ten hours of mixed use or video streaming. The Amazon Fire HD 10 also offers keyboard and stylus support, if you have extra cash for those accessories. Here in the UK it's £142 for the base model, with more added on for an ad-free experience and more storage.

So that's the Amazon Fire HD 10 2024 model, check out my reviews of the other best tablets right now!

Amazon Fire HD 10 2024 Review Chapters:
0:00 - What's the deal?
0:53 - Design
1:46 - Fire OS & features
3:22 - Apps & App Store
4:37 - Alexa & Show Mode
5:49 - Display & audio
7:51 - Cameras
8:13 - Performance
8:48 - Battery life
9:47 - Verdict

[rapids]

i've had several Fire tablets... Chris hit it spot on. they're fine for reading, watching a video, & basic games. they're cheap AF and quite frankly they're fine for just basic uses. i'd certainly give it to anyone who isn't super techy and you're concerned about them trashing it or just doesn't care that it's pretty slow.

[cjb]

My wife's had a Fire tablet for years and it's still going strong and working well for the basic use it gets, mostly watching movies, etc. through the browser. I belive that it's possible to load some Google services too if you know how. Details on the web

[MichaelW]

I have an 11th gen Fire tablet and it's been absolutely terrific for watching movies and reading e-books. And yes, I've read all of Chris Barraclough's books. I even paid for some of them!😁

[doyouthinkitsdead]

Any chance of a round up of budget tablets found on Amazon?

[yamaguchitoshio]

Thks to upload Sir. Here in Japan there's a sales off this weekend and price is 14980 japanese Yen (around GBP 78, 55).

[username._copied]

I love my Amazon fire 10 . My daughter has her own fire 10 kids version

[alastor]

You kept that book thing quiet, whoa.

[Avtur-gx]

Great review, like the candid comments, wish I had been wise to the limitations of Fire OS before ordering an HD10. As at mid December 2024 the standard price for the HD10 on the UK 'high street' is £70, so less of a loss. Hoping that I find a way to at least get YouTube on it, which is my main main source of screen based entertainment these days.

[hurdygurdyguy]

Within a week of buying the Fire HD last summer I uninstalled as much of the bloatware as I could (I did pay the blackmail to Amazon to get rid of the ads), turned off the wifi and turned to other sources for ebooks and Calibre for ebook management... much much better!!

[cinspain]

I've enjoyed my hd10 for the last 2 years tbf never need to worry about it getting dented or damaged, it still looks amazing don't throw it round but I'm not too careful with it and sometimes that's what you need when going away, watching movies, streaming music to Bluetooth speaker etc all been brilliant. I will need a tablet for work purposes which I will get something else but this has been brilliant

[mattsanchez]

Holy cow Chris I had no idea you were a writer as well, definitely checking out your books!

[DigitalMonsters]

Appreciated the avoidance of the dreaded magical words, it's so annoying when people say it in videos and your devices go off 😂

[Soumil-f]

Excellent review! is there a reading mode or something similar that dims the blue light for reading without strain?

[spaceted]

Just because Amazon Store doesn't include a YouTube App doesn't mean you can't get it !!! I downloaded it from Google and now I have YouTube with no Adverts on my New Fire 10. I don't bother with the Games, I use my X Box Series X for them !!!

[josephdaniel]

Thanks for the upload! Amazon is delivering mine today. It’ll be my first tablet. Not really planning to use it for gaming. I enjoy basic things like watching movies/youtube videos, social media, etc. I think this will be PERFECT for me just based on your review.

[JLary]

Glad you didn't say hey Google. Gets me every time a YouTuber does it 😂

[ulfricstormcloak]

Yeah for basic usage it's worth the price. I bought Fire HD 8 (2020) just to read manga and it served me well

[osamakaiser]

I wonder, does the 12th gen fire 7 support stylus/hand written notes?

[creativesblock]

Thanks for the feedback! I’m thrilled because my first tablet is arriving today, and I can’t wait to start using it. I’m not really into gaming, but I’m a huge fan of watching movies, YouTube, and scrolling through social media. It seems like this tablet will be ideal for my needs! I just hope a YouTube app becomes available soon.

[mikeypeters]

What reasonably priced tablet would you recommend, that has the Google play store, from a decent uk supplier, and reasonable updates for around the £350