![]() ![]() Amazon Music cards display playback controls and asking for a particular show takes you to the listing in Amazon video. You can search for media simply by asking Alexa too. ![]() Ask how old Uber’s ex-CEO Travis Kalanick is and get the answer but also the option to tap a link and search Bing for the query. Alexa’s responses are more like those found on the Fire TV with interactive cards displayed while it talks through the answer to your questions.Īsk for the weather and get a card displaying current conditions and the weather for the week you can scroll through. Hold the home button and Alexa listens to your commands and questions, geared up to launch apps and optimised around entertainment. It’s the same Alexa that’s found in the company’s Fire TV and Echo smart speaker devices, and has access to the same information. The jewel in the crown for Fire OS 5.4 is Alexa – Amazon’s voice-enabled smart digital assistant. If just reading, the battery will likely last quite a bit longer. Playing games brought it down closer to 5.5 hours. The battery lasted for a little over 6.5 hours of video watching with the brightness cranked up, which is enough to get through most of a transatlantic flight. Swiping through the panes of the home screen is smooth, jumping between apps works relatively quickly, but there can be a noticeable delay between the app opening and it being ready for use. It’s not what I would call quick, but I didn’t suffer from any moments of lag that made me question whether I actually tapped the button or not. The operating system rolls along perfectly acceptably too. It’ll handle most games perfectly fine, if with slightly longer load times and slower frame rates than you might be used to on a top-end smartphone. The new Fire 7 has the same 1.3GHz quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM as the last one, and performs similarly. If 8 or 16GB of storage isn’t enough, a microSD card slot allows you to add more. ![]()
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