AmazonFire Max 11 tablet (newest gen), our most powerful tablet yet, vivid 11" display, octa-core processor, 4 GB RAM, 14-hr battery life, 64 GB, Grey, with Ads

Wow! I love this IPad, still getting used to manoeuvring, around it. I chose this upgrade as a present from my hubby, an update from a 10, unfortunately, a little out of practice, because my Granddaughter, was using it for all her programs, even taking it abroad. This iPad looks good, the screen is just for right me, overall the quality looks fabulous., I am sure I will get a lot of usage. Luckily I could trade my old one in with Amazon, a discount was also given towards this new IPad. Highly recommend

I can't stress this enough, Amazon's Fire Max 11 FINALLY eliminates the lag and stuttering that plagues every prior Fire tablet. Make no mistake, this isn't iPad performance but it's finally nice to venture away from using the tablet as just a media streamer - I can now run Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Flipboard, Excel and moderate games etc without the fear of the apps lagging and stuttering after just a few swipes which is what I found to happen on Amazon's next best tablet - the Fire HD 10 Plus - but not the Max 11. Sure, if you push the Max 11 hard enough or power scroll through apps, your bound to see some lag or stuttering, but you won't see it now from normal use. Coupling this performance boost with the absolutely GORGEOUS 11 inch screen and new metal back, the Max 11 literally feels premium which is a strange feeling for a Fire tablet. The extra 1 inch on the screen has made the screen taller (from portrate) rather than stretching it diagonally so the screen feels extra wide-screen if you use it horizontally. The screen clarity is crystal clear, the blacks are deep (although it's not an OLED or mini LED panel), the colours are more vibrant and overall brighter than the previous HD10 - ultimately an amazing screen.The Max 11 now has a fingerprint reader which is a first for a Fire tablet and is nice and fast, but you'll find it annoying like I did that if you purchase the ‘with special offers’ version of the tablet, then you'll be taken to an ad screen as soon as you unlock the screen with your finger print, this then requires an extra swipe to get into your tablet. You can eliminate the ads by paying £10 to Amazon and then your finger print will take you straight into the tablet - this can be purchased during the initial sale or after it. I paid the £10 after I'd setup the tablet and it took Amazon 10 mins to send the signal to my tablet to disable the ads.Do note that these tablets don't have Google Play Store installed and thus you are to use Amazon's Appstore which is very limited, but it does cover most of the media essentials and has somewhat improved over the years, but it’s absolutely no match for Google’s Play store. If you find Amazon's Appstore too limited them you can install Google Play store directly from the tablet and it only takes 5 mins to do so (a quick Google search will help you with this - do note that this requires ‘side loading’ of 4 Google apps that you download and install at your own risk - there are however certain established and trusted websites which offer these Google apps to download for free.). I'd highly recommend you do this as this gives you access to a far bigger and better Appstore which has the proper YouTube app, Gmail, Chrome etc. I also installed Google's Gboard app which is a far better keyboard than the stock keyboard on all Fire devices.The sound seems slightly better than the previous Fire HD10. The speakers are on the left or top (depending on yourdevice orientation) and they're spaced far apart so they have great stereo separation, although they're not as bassey as an ipad, they're still great for movies and YouTube etc. Amazon have removed the 3.5mm audio jack which is a first for a Fire tablet, so you must use either wireless headphones via Bluetooth, or use wired headphones via a type C dongle.The device starts at 64GB storage but you can increase this via the micro SD card slot which is weirdly inside what looks like a SIM tray. There is also a 128GB model.Amazon claim a 14 hour battery life which is incredible, but your mileage may vary with screen brightness and app performance intensity being a major factor in battery life - still a huge battery and the biggest I’ve ever seen in any regular tablet.Similar to the HD 10 Plus, the Fire max 11 has 4GB RAM and an 8 core CPU, but the CPU is much faster than the previous generation and this is what makes the device run so much better. Be sure to install any updates as soon as you boot up the tablet for the first time as thiis will ensure optimal performance before you install your apps. You'll find that this extra power is useful to run productivity apps such as Excel and Word.The device feels solid and sturdy with its metal back and 'alumisilocate' glass which is supposedly very tough. I feel confident using my Max 11 without a case or screen protector.The cameras are supposedly improved from the previous gen but I don't ever use them so I can't comment on that here. It's nice though that the front facing camera is in the middle of the screen in horizontal orientation so you're not awkwardly out of centre during video calls.I absolutely love the Fire Max 11, I'll no longer use my Fire tablet as just a media streamer, but will feel confident running Excel for my finances, Flipboard for my interests and Facebook/Twitter/TikTok without the fear of lag. We’ve waited for this for a long time - a budget tablet slowly creeping into the ‘premium’ territory, yet its still unashamedly a budget device - now with a premium feel and decent specs.So Amazon have finally reached the premium end of the budget category with the Fire Max 11, it's an absolutely brilliant tablet and I'd recommend it to anyone in the market for a good all round tablet, but don't want to pay iPad prices. Amazon's Fire tablets now have their Max 11 as the flagship and it feels so much more comfortable venturing into light productivity, social media and moderate gaming, something we've never experienced this smoothly before on a Fire tablet. Because of this, I'd consider the Max 11 an essential purchase.

Bought on sale this is amazing. Just a shame about the ongoing lack of Google app store

I bought this tablet so that the kids could have a tablet with their own profiles, locked by their own key code. I wanted to be able to limit what applications they could install, and what sites they could visit.As a single-user tablet that only uses apps in the Amazon ecosystem, this is a great tablet for its price. If that was all I was using it for, I'd give it five stars.Where it all starts to crumble to dust is when you actually want to have child accounts on it.Firstly, I wanted the kids to be able to do their Acellerated Reader homework on it. However, with the kid profiles, all websites are locked, so you have to manually unlock them. That's great, but you can't just go into a setting and set allow "*.acceleratedreader.co.uk" . I tried that, and many variants, but the site just kept breaking. You can't even log into the kid's profile and say "allow this site", and have the tablet automatically work out what was needed from the page contents. What you have to do is to visit the page on a PC, look at the HTML source code at all the fixed asset URLs and then hand-type them into the tablet one-by-one. Huge propensity for errors. Not fun.Secondly, I wanted them to be able to use BorrowBox. That app IS actually on the Amazon store, but sadly doesn't work properly in a child profile. It just breaks. I've spoken to Borrowbox who say there's just something broken about the security stopping it from working... So I have to let the kids use my profile to use Borrowbox, AND the accelerated reader? Pointless.The biggest bugbear though is that when you turn the tablet on, an adult has to log in to the tablet, and then swipe down twice, tap a tiny TIIIINY icon that looks like a person, and then tap the kid profile name, then let the kid log in. Why the hell doesn't it just boot to a "choose your profile" page, and have the four profile images as big icons? It's a 10" screen, why is the "choose a profile" image, about 1/8th of an inch square at the bottom of a second pull-down of a menu?! Or it's a small icon at the top-right after I've already logged in.It just means that the kids can't keep the tablet in their room, they have to unplug it, drag it across the house, give it to me to unlock, then they take it back to their room. Lovely to see them, but not a "digital" experience.Lastly, (and this is the real bugbear) the lack of Google Apps is really irritating. There are some great apps on Google Play that would make the tablet perfect. The kids want to use Kinzoo, for instance. But, it's not on Amazon app store. Other common apps aren't there either. When it was just me using the tablet, I didn't care too much. On a previous tablet I rooted it and installed the google app apk's which fixed it, but this tablet's more locked down, and the kids use more varied apps, and the amazon app store just doesn't hack it.I've seen the parental controls offered by Apple devices. While not perfect, they make the shoddy implementation on the Fire look amateurish. From the Windows XP-style "little kiddy" interface to the apps not working properly in child profiles... It's just all not very well done.BUT (massive BUT), the tablet's cheap, and moderately quick. It does give easy access into the Amazon physical stuff store, and there's always the kindle app for reading books.. So the out-of-the-box experience is extremely good. Therefore, I give the tablet five stars, and the kid profile experience three stars, so it averages to about four stars.

Nice upgrade and better size, easy transfer of old tablet content

Amazing picture quality, fast loading and does everything I want.

Great

Excellent product, well worth the price asked.