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Amazon’s largest tablet is the Fire Max 11. It has an 11-inch display, a fingerprint reader, and an non-obligatory keyboard and stylus bundle. Usually, Fire tablets are low-cost consumption units, however now perhaps you may be productive on one?
The tablet begins at $229.99, with the “productiveness bundle”—the tablet plus the keyboard and stylus—clocking in at $329.99, or precisely the value of a Ninth-gen iPad. For specs, the show is an 11-inch, 2000×1200 60 Hz LCD, and it has 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage (with an possibility for 128GB), and a “14-hour” battery of unknown measurement with 15 W charging (you may solely get a 9 W charger in the field, although). The SoC is a Mediatek MT8188J. That’s an 8-core chip with two Arm Cortex A78 CPUs (these are the “medium” measurement CPUs in 2021’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1) and 6 junky Cortex A55 CPUs for background responsibility. The GPU is an ARM G57 MC2.
The fingerprint reader is on the aspect energy button. There’s additionally a MicroSD slot for further storage. The keyboard connects to the tablet by way of pogo pins that energy the keyboard and supply communication. The keyboard is not backlit. It helps Wi-Fi 6 and sports activities back and front 8 MP cameras.
As at all times, the robust factor about Amazon tablets will not be getting the common Google Play Android ecosystem. Instead, you may be restricted to the Amazon App Store and will not be capable of simply set up the Google apps. The OS for the Fire Max 11 is “Fire OS 8,” which relies on Android 11, a 2-year-old model of Android. Android 12L was a launch targeted on tablet enhancements, however you will not get that on Amazon’s tablet. The $230 model options advertisements on the lock display (you possibly can pay $15 extra to do away with these), and plenty of of the packed-in apps are designed round getting you to purchase stuff from Amazon.
So, as common, it is a price range system, however it’s an inexpensive strategy to dip your toes into the tablet plus keyboard waters. The tablet ships on June 14.