Amazon updates the Fire HD 10 with a faster processor and USB-C

The biggest member of Amazon’s line of Fire tablets is getting an update: a refreshed Fire HD 10 tablet. It will keep the same 10.1-inch screen and overall design but overhauls the internals with a new processor, better battery life, and, in a first for an Amazon hardware product, USB-C for fast charging.

Amazon says that the new Fire HD 10 is now 30 percent faster, thanks to a new processor, and it offers 20 percent better battery life, which are big improvements over the old model, if those numbers hold up in the real world. There’s also “enhanced” Wi-Fi, and microSD storage has been expanded to a maximum of 512GB (up from 200GB on the older model). Lastly, Amazon has finally added USB-C to one of its tablets for the first time,...

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