Amazon Fire 7 tablet (newest model) 7” display, read and watch, under $60 with 10-hour battery life, 16 GB, Black

Bought this tablet twice because it works well for my 8 year old. She did crack the screen on the first one but it was well abused before it finally lost to her torturous ways. Good battery life and easy to ise

I see a lot of the reviews here are parents buying this for a child under 12 and just to get it out of the way I agree this tablet would be perfect for a little kid, it's very basic and has great parental controls. However if you are not a parent and are just looking for a tablet, maybe because you wanna watch movies or do some light gaming on something that's not your phone, then keep in mind what I said about this being a very basic tablet. While the tablet is technically Android OS, it has its own Amazon app store. Almost like if your FireTV was a tablet. This appstore doesn't contain a YouTube app so you can't watch movies on YouTube though this Appstore does have most streaming services Like Disney Plus and Netflix, even Crunchyroll as downloadable apps. This isn't as big of an issue if you mostly use streaming services anyway. I just thought the lack of a YouTube app didn't make sense and was mildly annoying. As for the light gaming you DO have access to Luna, Amazon's cloud gaming service, so you can play Fortnite, and there's also Minecraft and Roblox in the Appstore itself. But no Teamfight Tactics unfortunatly. From the beginning, before even buying the tablet, you can choose to recieve locksceen ads from Amazon in exchange for selling you the tablet at a cheaper price and then get rid of the ads later for $15, OR you can choose to pay a higher price for the tablet in the first place and not have the lockscreen ads at all. Though it’s not the greatest tablet in existence, its capabilities and hardy battery life far exceed my expectations for its generous price, and it perfectly fits the needs of the minimalist looking for a slightly-bigger-than-your-phone-not-too-big-though screen to watch movies or their favorite series on, maybe listen to music, read a book, have the book be read to you, send or receive some emails, even get away with playing a few half decent games.

Just received and so far quite happy with the speed and performance, time will tell on the supposed longer battery life than our original Fire 7 it replaced. We were surprised to find the battery was totally discharged when we received it and would not even turn on without charging. Charging DOES still take 4 hours just like the old unit, a little inconvenient in this age of fast charging but even with a higher wattage charger it only shortens that time slightly (from what we've read). Our original was from 2012 and was setup more as an e-reader that could go online. This one is a tiny tablet that happens to have the Kindle e-reader app installed. We'll see how much we can customize our library to make it feel more familiar. Given the price was 1/2 that of a new Kindle paperwhite I think we'd choose this one again in a heartbeat if it works as well as our original Fire 7 that lasted 13 years!

This is either a great tablet or a terrible one, depending on who you are and what you want out of a tablet. If you are a kid who wants to play games, this is not for you. It simply cannot run many of the more popular games out there. It's just too slow and limited. If you are a student that is looking for something to do your homework on, this is not your tablet. Too slow, too limited, and the inability to run Google apps is a serious issue. I was able to attend a Zoom class with it, so there's that, I suppose. If you want to create videos, no. Just no. It can be done, but any other tablet would be better! For work? Only if you have a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Even then your phone would be a better choice. So who is this tablet good for? Anyone going on a long trip. It's small and easy to carry. You can use your wired ear buds. It can use huge SD cards. You can load it up with enough movies, TV series, Kindle and Audible books, and music to get you through months of waiting for flights or on long train rides. It's something to hand to your kids when they get crabby in the car. It is perfect for people who are worried about their tablet being stolen. Openly using an iPad makes you a potential target in some places. A Fire 7 tablet? Not so much. And if it is stolen it is easily replaceable and Amazon makes it easy to clear everything off the tablet remotely. Anyone who wants to protect their data. Using public Wi-Fi is sketchy. One can set up a Fire Tablet without any bank or credit card or other sensitive data on it so that there isn't as much risk. Anyone who wants a really cheap color Kindle. No, the Fire Tab 7 doesn't have a Paper White screen and some people may not like reading on it. But the screen is good enough for the vast majority of readers. The tablet is light enough to hold for hours, and the screen is large enough to hold a typical book. I have several better tablets but if I just want to read I grab the Fire 7. Anyone who is broke. The Fire 7 doesn't do most things as well as most other tablets, but it CAN do them (in most cases). If you can't afford anything better, then the Fire 7 is great!

I read on this thing all the time. It's perfect because it's about the size and weight of a paperback. The battery lasts forever. The brightness is adjustable. Can't beat this for the price for sure.

Bought this for a reason most people probably would not, but I purchased this to make it into a streamdeck for my Twitch account. Honestly, it works amazing. As the way it stands there are so many android apps (Free) that turn tablets into such great tools you cannot pass it up. It has multiple pages with multiple buttons that can do everything say an Elgato stream deck could do. It may not have the "physical" button feel, but this is much cheaper! It has worked through many streams and recordings. The buttons always work and you can even get into the "coding" side of making custom buttons for different things while streaming. All of this was just for streaming! Imagine the other uses it could be for the price! The screen size is big enough where the buttons are large enough to see and read. The screen is clear enough for me to see the buttons from even far away (other side of the room). The touch screen has not lost any responsiveness and the battery life is fantastic. If I do not crank the brightness to 100 this has lasted me multiple full-length streams. P.S I got a tablet stand for it. It's amazin.

So I only just got this and thought I'd share my initial review and hopefully answer questions that others might have that has been difficult to find answers for. Size differences As most have already seen, this version is different from the previous in shape and size, yes it is slightly smaller. For most users who had the previous version, the kicker is that your covers and cases etc. are no longer compatible. Also the Charger uses USB-C plug also which is different from the previous versions. In terms of performance This is night and day in comparison to the older versions. The older version was slick when it first came out but like most people know, the FireOS is basically Android and as more and more updates have been applied, the older version is now running really slow. So basically this new version hardware was tailored for the today's version of android thus it runs very fast and very slick, this is a very crucial issue. NO YOUTUBE KIDS APP The biggest issue anyone will encounter and is well known about is that this does not have the Google Play Store or accompanying services. That means that IT DOES NOT HAVE THE NATIVE YOUTUBE KIDS APP. There are many people on here that simply either don't understand what a native app is or simply confuse it with the main Youtube. I myself had multiple answers that failed to answer this basic question with multiple contradictory answers or reviews that failed to understand the question. Amazon FIRE tablets DO NOT HAVE YOUTUBE KIDS Apps. Amazon has their own Youtube.com app which it seems they created as the developer email address for that app is an amazon.com email address. When you click YOUTUBE KIDS link in that app it jumps to the browser and opens in the browser which is a terrible experience. It is strange given that on the fire TV, the YouTube app allows you to switch to kids profiles, if only Amazon would do that for their tablet youtube app. But until then What you have are 3rd party apps built by you know who on the AppStore that plays youtube. They are not native apps, nor do they support most of the functionality as is. They are not written by Youtube, Google or Amazon either, so if you want to give those apps your google login which is used for Youtube Kids then you do so at your own risk. YES YOU CAN INSTALL YOUTUBE KIDS NATIVE APP, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT YOURSELF. I don't know why nor will I try to even get into this very very old topic of not having youtube kids, but the GOOD news is that it is very simple and easy to get Youtube kids native apps on this 12th gen version. You don't need to be a modder or anything intense. But a simple web search will tell you how to do this. Just know that you will have to install 4 different google apps/services first to get the Play Store. This is even easier as you simply open the browser, download each of them from the website and Click to install. DONE AND DUSTED. Once you have the Play Store you can easily install any of the native youtube Kids apps or even the original Youtube app from google and even login to your tablet with your gmail account. I was able to do this in 30 minutes. With YouTube Kids installed. I am now able to give this 10 Stars. This is basically very decent hardware and latest OS for $60. You cannot go wrong with this as a kids tablet especially with the ability from Amazon to quickly lock this down. Touch Screen is extremely responsive I have struggled to find a decent priced kids tablet that is responsive enough to use the ANTON app without lag. This is the fastest tablet I have seen at this price point. For those that haven't used ANTON, it is by far the best app for teaching your kids. It has school derived lessons, I would recommend every parent should download ANTON. But it's writing lessons, needs a screen that is responsive and a fairly decent tablet. This tablet passes the ANTON test with a gold star. Sound is clear with some bass. It doesn't sound like a tin can. Sound quality is very loud and clear. Trust me, if you've been through the dozen kids tablets I have, you will be surprised how much of a let down it would be when you have poor sound. Kids need to hear clearly and this does it without issues. The Amazon AppStore itself is actually pretty good. All the apps we had on our old android tablet were available except for Youtube Kids. I'd imagine there are many more that are not available but most of the decent kids ones are on there including ANTON, ABC Kids etc I would think that since the FireTV Youtube app allows kids profiles, that Amazon would at some point do the same with their own tablet Youtube app. As it is right now this table is almost perfect especially once I was able to manually install play store and youtube kids easily. I'm ordering a second one.

First, I want to give a shout out to Dyle, the Amazon customer service representative, who patiently and valiantly tried to help me with the issues I'm having with my new Kindle Fire 7. He is phenomenal, and I'd give him 100 stars if I could. Unfortunately, the overall rating is 1 (and I wish I could give it something lower) due to Amazon's product, and the very weak warranty period surrounding it. I bought my first Kindle Fire 7 in 2013, and have absolutely loved it. I used it everyday, primarily borrowing books from my local library. The interface between the library and Amazon worked perfectly, and I downloaded over 1000 books during that time, all downloaded to my Kindle Fire successfully. I decided this past August that I should get a new Kindle Fire 7, as the charging of my old one was getting slower and slower. Big mistake on my part - I should have on to the old one. Everything started out fine with the new Kindle Fire 7. I continued my usual routine of getting books from my library, and they successfully downloaded to the new Kindle. After about 6 weeks (halfway through the meager 90-day warranty period), the downloading function stopped working. I got an error message saying that Amazon was working on the issue, and to try again later. After about a week of continuing error messages, I thought I should contact customer support. Well over an hour later with the representative, all I was told was that it must be an error at my library. The error message indicating that Amazon was working on the problem certainly seemed bogus. With the customer service rep, I was able to successfully download library books from my PC and my iPhone to the new Kindle. So the rep also added that I should just use my PC or iPhone to download books. Not a good answer, Amazon. I bought the Kindle Fire 7 specifically for the functionality which allows me to, with only the Kindle, take out books from the library and download them. And, obviously, the Kindle had proven that this technology should work, until 6 weeks into my ownership of the new Kindle. I wound up speaking with an Amazon supervisor, who acknowledged that the issue was on the Amazon side. She indicated she would open a case with Amazon's Software Engineering Department in order to resolve the issue. She also indicated that I would be contacted by Amazon in about a week with a resolution. I asked if I could call in, concerned that I may not get a call back. I was told that I could not call Software Engineering. This was not unexpected, I just wanted to talk with someone in Customer Service who would be able to tell me the status of my issue. The supervisor said she would document this situation in detail in my account record, so if I did call in, I should be able to get a quick response. Fast forward 10 days, I still haven't heard from Amazon, and my warranty period is quickly ticking away. I called in, and got the wonderful Dyle to help me. (I did not put him on the spot, but it seemed apparent to me that the supervisor I had spoken to previously did not document the issue, or at least not sufficiently for someone else to be able to follow). Dyle tried a number of troubleshooting ideas that neither of the first two representatives tried. Unfortunately, none were successful, and through consultation with someone else at Amazon (I assume his supervisor), they said I needed to send my Kindle back and they would attempt to repair, or else send me a new one. I asked if the warranty period starts fresh with the repaired/new Kindle, and was told that it did not. So, in the time I waited, seeing if Amazon's error message was accurate (indicating they were working to resolve the issue), calling into Customer Service and waiting 10 days with no response from them, then sending my Kindle in for repair/replacement, I estimate I have lost about 30% of the already skimpy 90 day warranty period. This is just not right. The issue with the Kindle did not occur until owning it for 6 weeks. If the same pattern repeats itself, I will be well beyond the warranty period when the issue occurs, and then I will just have thrown my money away on this Kindle. Dyle (and his supervisor?), understanding my concern, offered a partial refund if I just wanted to return the Kindle. Why partial though, Amazon? It's been acknowledged that the issue is with the Kindle. Why should I have to pay anything if you send me a defective Kindle? Very bad business model. Not a good way at all to treat your customers. I cannot recommend this product.