Amazon creeps into the premium tablet market with the Fire Max 11

Amazon’s largest pill is the Fire Max 11. It has an 11-inch display, a fingerprint reader, and an non-obligatory keyboard and stylus package deal. Often, Hearth tablets are low cost consumption units, however now perhaps you may be productive on one?

The pill begins at $229.99, with the “productiveness bundle”—the pill plus the keyboard and stylus—clocking in at $329.99, or precisely the value of a Ninth-gen iPad. For specs, the show is an 11-inch, 2000×1200 60 Hz LCD, and it has 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage (with an choice for 128GB), and a “14-hour” battery of unknown measurement with 15 W charging (you will solely get a 9 W charger within the field, although). The SoC is a Mediatek MT8188J. That is an 8-core chip with two Arm Cortex A78 CPUs (these are the “medium” measurement CPUs in 2021’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1) and 6 junky Cortex A55 CPUs for background responsibility. The GPU is an ARM G57 MC2.

The fingerprint reader is on the facet energy button. There’s additionally a MicroSD slot for further storage. The keyboard connects to the pill through pogo pins that energy the keyboard and supply communication. The keyboard is not backlit. It helps Wi-Fi 6 and sports activities back and front 8 MP cameras.

As all the time, the powerful factor about Amazon tablets is just not getting the standard Google Play Android ecosystem. As a substitute, you will be restricted to the Amazon App Retailer and will not be capable to simply set up the Google apps. The OS for the Hearth Max 11 is “Fire OS 8,” which is predicated on Android 11, a 2-year-old model of Android. Android 12L was a launch targeted on pill enhancements, however you will not get that on Amazon’s pill. The $230 model options advertisements on the lock display (you’ll be able to pay $15 extra to eliminate these), and most of the packed-in apps are designed round getting you to purchase stuff from Amazon.

So, as regular, it is a finances machine, however it’s an affordable technique to dip your toes into the pill plus keyboard waters. The pill ships on June 14.