Amazon Refreshes Cheapest Tablets, Drops Price on Fire HD 8
- Best-selling 7-inch model gets better battery life, new design
- Price drops to $80 on Fire HD 8 as overall tablet market slows
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Amazon.com Inc. updated its least-expensive tablets, continuing to produce new and updated hardware as a way to attract consumers to its more profitable services.
The online retailer and consumer electronics maker announced upgrades Wednesday to its best-selling 7-inch Fire tablet, giving it a slightly thinner and lighter design, an extra hour of battery life, support for higher-speed wireless connectivity, and new colors. Amazon cut the price on the larger Fire HD 8 tablet by $10 and said it’s giving the rugged tablets for kids a makeover as well.