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Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet (2021 Model): 64GB $115, 32GB

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Amazon.com has Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet (2021 Model) on sale listed below from $74.99. Shipping is free.

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  • 32GB (various colors) $74.99
  • 64GB (various colors) $114.99
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  • 32GB (various colors) $74.99
  • 64GB (various colors) $114.99
Staples.com also has 32GB Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet (2021 Model) on sale listed below for $74.99. Shipping is free, otherwise free store pickup is available where stock permits.

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    • The 32GB Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet (2021 Model) is $75 lower (50% savings) than the $149.99 list price.

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Update: This popular deal is still available

Amazon.com has Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet (2021 Model) on sale listed below from $74.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member weicsm for finding this deal.
  • 32GB (various colors) $74.99
  • 64GB (various colors) $114.99
The following is no longer available

Best Buy.com also has Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet (2021 Model) on sale listed below from $74.99. Shipping is free, otherwise free curbside pickup is available where stock permits.
  • 32GB (various colors) $74.99
  • 64GB (various colors) $114.99
Staples.com also has 32GB Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet (2021 Model) on sale listed below for $74.99. Shipping is free, otherwise free store pickup is available where stock permits.

Editor's Notes

Written by megakimcheelove | Staff
  • About this store:
  • Reviews:
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars by over 30,000 Amazon customers.
  • About this deal:
    • The 32GB Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet (2021 Model) is $75 lower (50% savings) than the $149.99 list price.

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Nov 19, 2021 9:11 AM
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CMichaelTNov 19, 2021 9:11 AM
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I have the 2018 version of this tablet, I side loaded Google play store. I use it mainly as a device for reading, watching shows, and browsing sites and it is perfect for that. I don't use it for games so no comment on that. The apps used for Amazon kids stuff run well on it and my kids haven't complained.

I will say it does not multi task well and find myself closing apps from recents menu to ensure a smoother operation.
Nov 19, 2021 9:20 AM
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AlphaChinoNov 19, 2021 9:20 AM
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Kids version is like 120 and comes with case and a 2year worry free warranty. My kids break the charger port all the time so this is perfect for me
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Nov 19, 2021 9:27 AM
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taiwan
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Nov 19, 2021 9:27 AM
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My kindle broke. I just want to know if this can do what Kindle can, I'm aware that Kindle has much longer battery life but I'm ok with charging the unit regularly.
Nov 19, 2021 9:35 AM
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OliveHome916Nov 19, 2021 9:35 AM
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Quote from taiwan View quoted comment :
My kindle broke. I just want to know if this can do what Kindle can, I'm aware that Kindle has much longer battery life but I'm ok with charging the unit regularly.
Yep, I use my tablet as a kindle all the time (kindle unlimited). I use it to watch Netflix on the plane too. I have no complaints and videos/turning pages don't really lag and that's for the 2019 version too.
Nov 19, 2021 10:39 AM
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marygptNov 19, 2021 10:39 AM
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This is my default tablet for kids. Even with cases they seem to break them every year and at this price point it doesn't hurt so much. I load Amazon Play store and they use roblox, gotcha, tick tock, YouTube
Nov 19, 2021 10:40 AM
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robasha4Nov 19, 2021 10:40 AM
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Quote from ponagathos View quoted comment :
Oh no, I paid $5 more for this tablet!

By the way, Fire tablets, including this new one, are still junk. Even with Play store installed and AMZ crap removed. Just so clunky. It feels like there is a...pause...for...every...action.
Well, downloading porn will ruin any tablet.
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Nov 19, 2021 10:43 AM
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behzodNov 19, 2021 10:43 AM
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Thanks. Bought 2 on Amazon:

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Nov 19, 2021 10:57 AM
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Nov 19, 2021 10:57 AM
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This turned into a massive wall of text, so I'll just summarize up top here: this is a fantastic deal, but it requires significantly more effort to set up than a standard tablet. If you're interested feel free to read on, but if reading the following sections seems like too much effort you would probably be better off avoiding a fire tablet.

This is actually a great deal, in spite of what some other people have been commenting, though with several caveats. Firstly the user experience out of the box will be terrible, if you're not willing to get more in depth setting up a fire tablet and modifying it, either manually through adb shell commands or using the fire toolbox which I highly recommend (more on that later), you should not purchase a fire tablet. Sideloading google play is an absolute must as the amazon appstore is awful. That being said, the hardware and performance of the fire hd 10 are unrivaled at this price range and can easily match tablets 3 times their price. I got the Fire hd 10 32gb 2021 during the last prime day sale when they were ~50% off and have been using it every day since, with the appropriate modifications it's more than sufficient for everything I've ever needed a tablet to do.
So far there have been no issues whatsoever with build quality or damage, even after constant heavy use. I have not had any issues with app incompatibility or the device being too under-powered for apps (the processor and amount of ram are exceptional for the price), the screen while not astounding is 1080p fhd with decent brightness and color, and the battery life is astoundingly good. The low internal memory (32gb) isn't an issue since you can add up to a 1tb microsd card, more storage than you will ever need on an android tablet. On a side note fire tablets on the current fire os (7.3.2.1 as of this post) only support the fat32 file system format for a microsd card rather than the newer exfat standard. While this doesn't have a very significant effect on general performance, it does mean you can't store individual files over 4gb in size on your fire tablets microsd card. This should be a non-issue for everything except locally storing 1080p or higher tv shows or movies, but in that case you can simply re-encode in a more efficient format, or split those files into 4gb segments.
Most of the time when people are complaining about poor performance on a fire tablet there are two primary causes: they haven't disabled the amazon bloatware that runs in the background, and they haven't changed the developer settings for window animation scale, transition animation scale, and animator duration scale to .5x (from the default of 1x). Without altering those three developer settings from default all animations and transitions on the tablet, such as swiping something to a side or opening an app take twice as long, making the tablet seem far slower than it actually is. Likewise leaving amazon bloatware running in the background consumes a significant portion of the tablets 3gb of ram, with all the bloatware disabled my tablet averages over 1.6gb of ram free, which is insanely good for a tablet in this price range.
By far the worst part of a fire tablet is the "Fire OS", a modified amazon version of android 9.0 pie. Android 9, while certainly not the latest and greatest, is still perfectly serviceable, but the obnoxious amazon modifications to the OS are horrendous. Disabling all the packaged bloatware is a must, and some useful features and settings of the os are hidden. These features can still be accessed with adb shell commands (and through the fire toolbox, which I'll discuss later), but this is obviously far less convenient than setting up a normal tablet. Funnily enough the best way to use this tablet is to avoid using anything even slightly amazon related on it. Most of the amazon apps and features are interlinked in the os making debloating much more difficult if you still wish to use amazon features, but if you don't need any of the amazon crap you can nuke it all into oblivion for a mostly vanilla android experience. If you avoid registering your tablet, highly recommended, you get no lockscreen ads and a lot of the amazon "features" don't run even without properly debloating the tablet (though you should still debloat anyways). To avoid registering the tablet make sure when purchasing to uncheck the checkbox asking something along the lines of linking the device to your amazon account.

Overall, as noted above, the fire tablet is great once properly set up, but if you had to do all the setup manually in command line I would not recommend a fire tablet to anyone. The saving grace of fire tablets comes in the form of a third party tool called "Fire Toolbox", made by Datastream33 at XDA forums. This is the link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/...0.3889604/
The fire toolbox lets you to easily modify your tablets hidden settings and disable amazon apps with a gui rather than command line, and you can find tutorials on how to properly set up your fire tablet on the homepage. It functions through adb (android debug bridge) and does not modify the system partition, meaning all changes can be reverted with a factory reset and it does not void your warranty. Hopefully this atrociously long post (and I was holding myself from adding more details, my ocd brain wanted this to be like 3x as long) is helpful to someone, have a good day/morning/evening.
Last edited by BeigeRoad455 November 19, 2021 at 03:02 AM.
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Nov 19, 2021 11:24 AM
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davelbierNov 19, 2021 11:24 AM
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Quote from budlongpdx View quoted comment :
All Amazon Fire's are garbage
they are not at all high end - this new 10 is ok, its cheap. you can run 2-3 apps at once. a browser, some email, something else light. you can stream on it fine. they sell a BT keyboard to pair with it - i got the combo and am happy with it for what it is.
the HD 8 can run one thing at a time - its sluggish, but also fine for streaming.
they are not for productivity or good games.
Nov 19, 2021 11:25 AM
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lovemeadealNov 19, 2021 11:25 AM
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Quote from ponagathos View quoted comment :
Oh no, I paid $5 more for this tablet!

By the way, Fire tablets, including this new one, are still junk. Even with Play store installed and AMZ crap removed. Just so clunky. It feels like there is a...pause...for...every...action.
Do you or anyone here have experience with the 10 Plus? I'm looking for a drawing tablet for a teen but the screen and speed quality has to be good enough not to cause frustration. I've had at least 5 Fires and all have been very slow and not suitable for games such as Minecraft so definitely not for drawing.
Nov 19, 2021 11:34 AM
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DrRadNov 19, 2021 11:34 AM
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Quote from ponagathos View quoted comment :
Oh no, I paid $5 more for this tablet!

By the way, Fire tablets, including this new one, are still junk. Even with Play store installed and AMZ crap removed. Just so clunky. It feels like there is a...pause...for...every...action.
It's $75, what are you expecting? They're designed to be gateways into Amazon's services. So shopping, video, music, web browsing. You can pay $329 for an iPad and do exactly the same things most people do on a tablet (i.e browse Facebook).
Last edited by DrRad November 19, 2021 at 03:45 AM.
Nov 19, 2021 11:49 AM
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scoobyazNov 19, 2021 11:49 AM
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QVC kept cancelling my orders for that deal of the same price & case. F them. Never ordering another thing from them again. Glad amazon had it as i guessed they would. My xmas shopping is now all complete! I guess anything on BF & CM is all for me 😁
Nov 19, 2021 12:15 PM
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VegaTheChosenNov 19, 2021 12:15 PM
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My son needs a new tablet he's still using fire 7 from. 2015 and it's trash. Almost bit on the fire hd10 but then I saw this
VGKE Tab H30 Plus Tablet, 10.1" Android 10.0 Tablet, 4GB RAM 128GB Storage, 2.4+5G Wi-Fi Bluetooth 5.0, 1920x1200 FHD IPS Large Screen 6000mAh Long-Lasting Battery, Full Metal Cover, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C65K...UTF8&psc=1

Looks like it could be a better deal all around and cheaper. Price with current discounts is 115. You get 128gb storage and 4 gigs of ram and Google play out the box. Should I grab this or the firehd10?
Nov 19, 2021 12:28 PM
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smartdealsNov 19, 2021 12:28 PM
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Quote from ginsengjin View quoted comment :
$43 with trade in of my older amazon fire hd 8.

I agree, the fire hd tablets are not great but if you sideload google play and install a custom launcher with fire toolbox it's actually a decent tablet for the price. It's just not easy for the average users but I still think if you use amazon for their video service it's not a bad device in that case either.
any link how to trade in?

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Nov 19, 2021 12:34 PM
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DerekisthematrixNov 19, 2021 12:34 PM
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I doubt this will go much lower for BF. Call me when the HD8 is $30 though please.

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