Amazon’s spring sale is finally underway and shoppers are already getting their hands on the best deals across a wide array of popular products.
As well as beauty, home, garden and much more, which you can stay updated with on our blog, bargain hunters can also get their hands on Amazon’s many tech gadgets for far less than their original retail price.
One of the best deals we’ve spotted so far is on the Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, which has been slashed by a whopping 45 percent.
Originally costing £99, Amazon’s latest generation of its popular tablet can be snagged for £55. Even better, shoppers can get an extra 20 percent off when they trade in their older tech devices.
The Amazon Fire HD 8 was released just last year, making it the newest model of this product. Its eight inch retina display offers the perfect screen for streaming your favourite shows, browsing the web, watching videos, gaming and listening to music either at home or while out and about.
For those worried about storage space, the tablet includes 3 GB RAM, 50 percent more than 2022 release, 32 GB of storage. If you need more space, shoppers can also up to 1 TB of expandable storage, which is sold separately.
One of the tablet’s standout features is its built-in Alexa features, Amazon’s on virtual AI assistant which listens to voice commands, helping users do things like put on their favourite songs without lifting a finger.
This nifty tablet can also be used to keep in touch with loved ones, by asking Alexa to make video calls or download Apps like Zoom.
The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet has received numerous glowing reviews online, earning an overall 4.4 out of five star rating. One shopper praised it for its assistance abilities.
As well as getting shoppers access Spring Deal Days deals that are exclusive to Prime members, there’s a host of advantages to Amazon Prime membership including next day delivery, free Deliveroo, music and books and Prime Video. Usually £8.99 a month, you can now get a 30 day free trial to get access to all this week’s sale deals.
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They said: “My severely visually impaired wife uses the Kindle to read because she can change the background colour and make the font of books big enough to see with the aid of a magnifying screen. She loves it and treated herself to a brand new one as her original one had seen better days.”
“The tablet is responsive and the touch screen works faultlessly,” wrote a second. “The Silk web browser does the job and the device was easy to connect to WiFi. It is also excellent value.”
Another wrote: “A very good tablet that we use to watch kids programs in the car the speed is very good as the RAM is of good high amount of three gigabytes the extreme quality is decent and the ads don’t really interfere with the use of the tablet at a very good price.”
You can purchase the Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet here online now.
However, some buyers were not as impressed, with one two star rating saying: “Don’t really like it that you have to make account to be able to use avast amount of the apps. It ok quality and the price is ok but I am no fan of the tablet.”
While a three star reviewer penned: “Netflix only worked briefly before constantly crashing on load despite working on TV and other devices. Trying to resolve but if no success in a few days I’ll have no option but to return it as faulty.”
If you’re looking for an alternative, there are a few options to pick from. While a fair bit pricier than Amazon’s tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+ starts from £999 on the Samsung website. But shoppers are guaranteed £200 off when they trade in an approved tech device, including smartphones.
If you want to stick to Amazon, it also stocks the Lenovo Tab M11 Android Tablet, which is currently reduced to £140 down from £199.