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just in time for summer vacation traveling Amazon gave its fifty dollar fire tablet a slight boost the new model has a slimmer design in bright new colors it used to be called the Amazon fire but the revamp goes by the name fire seven tablet name seven for its seven-inch screen and it just so happens to ship June seventh the battery will last you about eight hours which is one hour longer than before the color display has added contrast so it'll look a little sharper the eight gig model is $50 but $70 gets you one with double the storage and there's also a kid's Edition for $100 and that comes with a cute rubber protective case and a 2-year no-questions-asked replacement guarantee should your little tyke destroy the tablet all models have a memory card slot so you can expand your storage and it'll support 256 gig cards amazon's next best tablet the fire HD 8 it got a $10 price cut so it now starts at $80 and for those of you in the UK amazon is finally adding alexis support to its tablets on the other side of the pond you see folks in the US could talk to Alexa in tablets since October of last year the prices are pretty low but to encourage you to get one for every member of the family Amazon has a deal buy any three and get 20% off I'm Bridget Carey you can find more in-depth reviews of amazon's tablet line-up at cnet.com