Amazon's New Fire 7 Tablet - Still Clinging to 1GB RAM

[Chiropteran]

Stupid amazon. They could raise the price by $5 and go to 2GB and it would be at least a halfway decent bargain tablet, but 1GB was crippling the previous generation and will cripple this one all the same.

I love the idea of a super cheap mainstream tablet, but I'd never buy one of these for $50 when Amazon's own Fire 8 tablet has 1.5GB of RAM for a few dollars more. That extra half gig makes a world of difference for performance.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GEW27DA/

 

[nOOky]

I'm still using my Fire HDX 7" I'd never buy a tablet with a screen resolution that low anyways. Nothing Amazon sells now interests me...

 

[Chiropteran]

I honestly don't care about the resolution as much as the RAM. I used a PC back in the day when 1280X960 on a 17" monitor was state of the art, so the res is fine for the screen size. I just want to be able to run apps with reasonable performance.

 

[Red Storm]

I wouldn't get a Fire tablet even if it was free. Their tablets are junk, dated designs with very poor software IMHO.

 

[Zaap]

A friend gave me a last-gen one.

I've used it....

...maybe twice?

 

[gorcorps]

I'm absolutely flabbergasted at some of the decisions they've made recently. They made a $300 e-ink reader when they already have a fairly expensive $200 reader, but chase the bottom with their full fledged tablets? I don't understand their priorities, and I don't think they do either.

 

[s44]

If you think Amazon knows what it's doing wrt devices... remember the Fire phone.

 

[core2slow]

I doubt the failure of the fire phones and tablets would keep Jeff Bezos up at night...If he's even aware such devices exist in his company at all. The cost-profit ratio is so miniscule for these devices that they're only making them to fulfill some obligated contract.

 

[shortylickens]

I'm actually pretty irritated with this rush to keep upgrading mobile devices. Maybe design a mobile OS that doesnt friggen NEED 128 gigabytes of RAM?

HOW ABOUT THAT, DAVID!?? HOW ABOUT THAT?!

 

[dainthomas]

My daughter received a last gen one as a gift. I bought the $3/mo unlimited kids book service, which is nice. And the ability to lock it down and control when/how she can use it is great. My main problem isn't the RAM but the horrible lack of internal storage (hers doesn't have a memory slot). After the OS and random junk, there's only 5GB of available space which is totally ridiculous. A half dozen apps and a few books and I'm getting "out of space" errors.