{"id":179086,"date":"2016-09-08T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=179086"},"modified":"2016-09-08T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:39:33","slug":"amazon-fire-hd-8-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/179086-amazon-fire-hd-8-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Fire HD 8 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon launched the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B018SZT3BK\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fire HD 8<\/strong><\/a>, the next-generation Fire HD tablet \u201cdesigned from the ground up for all-day entertainment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire HD 8 offers an 8-inch widescreen HD display (1280 x 800), a quad-core processor, and 12 hours of battery life.<\/p>\n<p>It has 50% more RAM than its predecessor, twice the on-device storage, and support for up to 200 GB of additional storage via a microSD card.<\/p>\n<p>Fire HD 8 also introduces Alexa, the cloud-based voice service, for the first time on Fire tablets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust press and ask\u2014Alexa can play music, launch games, read audiobooks, and more,\u201d Amazon explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Fire HD 8 is available immediately for $89.99.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on gadgets<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/178880-new-apple-watch-series-2-unveiled.html\"><strong>New Apple Watch Series 2 unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/178586-best-gadgets-from-ifa-2016.html\"><strong>Best gadgets from IFA 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon Fire HD 8 promises longer battery life, more storage, faster performance, and Alexa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":179090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,723,38866],"class_list":["post-179086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-amazon","tag-fire-hd-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179088,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179086\/revisions\/179088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}