The New Fire HD 10 Is Amazon's First Gadget with USB-C – Gizmodo, Gizmodo.com
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To date, every Kindle Amazon has ever made featured a micro USB port. The same goes for all of Amazon’s Fire tablets. But all that is about to change with the new Fire HD 10 tablet, Amazon’s first homegrown gadget with USB-C.
Thenew Fire HD 10is an update to Amazon’s previous 10 – inch tablet, and comes with a slightly faster eight-core processor, a new picture-in-picture mode, improved battery life that should last 12 hours on a charge (up from 10 hours on the previous model), and of course, a new USB-C port instead of micro USB.
So what’s the big deal about a Fire HD 10 getting USB-C, you ask? Well, not only does the addition of USB-C give the Fire HD faster charging (up to around 15 – watts) and data transfer speeds, more importantly, it finally brings the connectivity on Amazon’s “premium” tablet in line with other modern devices. (Technically, Amazon does make USB-C cables as part of its Amazon Basics line, but that’s not exactly a gadget now is it?)
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