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Amazon's latest 7-inch tablets sports a new design for the same low price as last year's model is it still a solid cheap tablet to buy i'm Xiomara blanco frisina and i'll be taking a closer look at the Amazon Fire HD 7 the seven-inch tablet looks different than last year's and not in a good way the angular design is reminiscent of the Fire HDX line but the Fire HD 7 has a plastic back that gives it a hollow feel despite its average girth to make up for the flimsy feeling amazon offers the tablet in a variety of fun colors though our review unit was a simple classy white the top edge houses the power button and micro USB port while the volume rocker is located on the left edge the back of the tablet is home to the rear camera as well as the dual Dolby audio powered speakers there's no expandable storage option but like with every fire tablet you get unlimited cloud storage for all of your Amazon content the Fire HD 7 runs on Amazon's recently released fire sangria operating system which also isn't too different from last year's version new features include the ability to set up individual user profiles and a shareable family library which at the time of review has yet to roll out Amazon didn't splurged on too many upgrades for the Fire HD 7 but it's new quad-core processor is purportedly twice as fast as last year's model with improved graphics performance the 1280 by 800 pixel resolution also stays the same however if the standard spec for a tablet in its price range and the humble IPS display looks sharp with life light colored performance is smooth and study for basic tasks like checking email reading and surfing the web the tablet slows down when downloading large files and launching large apps or games but the wait times are nothing atypical for a tablet with mid-range specs the rear 2 megapixel camera has a manual focus panorama and HDR option but photo quality at full resolution isn't very sharp and colors appear dull the front-facing VGA cam similarly struggles with producing clear and colorful photos but it has face detection and works fine for videoconferencing despite the downgrade in design the Fire HD 7 is still a good 7-inch slave its feature filled software is it saving grace and starting at a low one hundred and forty dollars only the Dell Venue 7 comes close to beating it however if you can upgrading to the 16 gigabyte model is worth the extra cash for more information on the tablet check out the full review on CNET again i'm Xiomara blanco and this is gonna first look at the Amazon Fire HD 7