WIRED Solid build compared to other Fire tablets. Nice screen. The keyboard isn’t Bluetooth anymore. New fingerprint sensor. TIRED Expensive for what you get. Fire OS is a dumpster fire of an operating system. Keyboard trackpad is bad. Stylus is worse.
), but the Fire 10 is certainly able to handle my needs as a writer. That is to say, for $100 on sale, with some slight modifications, the Fire 10 is indeed capable of being useful for work, which is a pretty great deal.
For that reason, I was excited to try the Fire Max 11—what’s not to like about a more powerful model, this one made of real metal instead of cheap plastic? The Fire Max 11 delivers what Amazon is promising, which is to say it’s by far the best Fire tablet the company has ever made. The 11-inch LCD screen has a nice 2,000 x 1,200-pixel resolution that’s quite glare-prone, but no worse than other tablets. The 16:9 format signals that the first priority here is consuming movies , but it’s not great for productivity. It could be if Amazon updated Fire OS to access some of the tools in, which is optimized for tablets, but Fire OS is based on an outdated version of Android that lacks any tablet-friendly features. More on that in a minute.
There’s a fingerprint reader on the side power button, which is a first for a Fire tablet. A microSD slot lets you expand your media storage, and the keyboard now connects via pogo pins, which allow it to charge and communicate. Previous Fire tablets—like mine—need to connect to keyboards via Bluetooth, which is inconsistent and slow on the best of days and must be charged separately.
Under the screen sit 4 gigabytes of RAM and either a 64-gigabyte or 128-gigabyte SSD . The Max 11 is powered by a MediaTek MT8188J chip, which uses an 8-core processor. Those specs put the Fire Max 11 in the middle of most Android tablets—more powerful than its Fire siblings, but certainly not close to any
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