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Amazon Fire HDX 8.9
Wi-Fi Only (2014)| Global Score | |
| 62.5 | 67.9 |
| Basic Information | |
| Apple | Amazon |
| iPadOS 18.x | Android 4.4 |
| 2025-03-04 | 2014-10-21 |
| -- | 9.10 x 6.20 x 0.30 inches |
| 16.97 ounces | 13.23 ounces |
| Blue, Pink, Silver and Yellow | -- |
| -- | $ 479.00 |
| Display / Screen | |
| 10.9 inches | 8.9 inches |
| -- | 2560 x 1600 pixels |
| IPS LCD | LCD |
| -- | 339 pixels per inch |
| 500 cd/m2 brightness | -- |
| No touch screen | Capacitive, Multi-touch |
| 3.7 | 8.7 |
| Performance | |
| Apple A16 Bionic (4 nm) chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 APQ8084 chipset |
| processor | Krait 450 (Quad-Core 2500 MHz) processor |
| 6 GB RAM | 2 GB (800 MHz) RAM |
| Apple GPU 4-core GPU | Adreno 420 Blaze GPU |
| 6.3 | 9.09 |
| Storage | |
| 128 GB internal memory | 64 GB internal memory |
| No SD card slot | No SD card slot |
| 10.1 | 7.7 |
| Camera | |
| 12.00 MP + 12.00 MP | 8.00 MP |
| f/1.80 aperture | f/2.20 aperture |
| -- | 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) video resolution |
| 7.92 | 6.82 |
| Networks | |
| -- | Wi-Fi |
| -- | Mobile Hotspot |
| 5G, 5G, LTE-A (4G), LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G) and HSDPA | LTE (4G), HSPA, EDGE and GPRS |
| 7.6 | 6.3 |
| Non-Removable Battery | Removable Battery |
| 1.36 | 1.36 |
| Other Features | |
| Bluetooth 5.3 | Bluetooth 4.1 |
| GPS | GPS |
| Fingerprint ID Scanner | -- |
| Accelerometer and Light Sensor | Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Light Sensor |
Comparison review
Amazon Fire HDX 8.9 has an overall score of 67.9, which is just a bit better than the Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025)'s global score of 62.5. The Amazon Fire HDX 8.9 counts with Android 4.4 OS, and Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025) has iPadOS 18.x OS. Amazon Fire HDX 8.9 features an incredibly better display than iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025), although it has a quite smaller display.
The Amazon Fire HDX 8.9 has a much faster processing unit than Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025), because although it has a smaller amount of RAM memory, it also counts with 4 more CPU cores. The Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025) has much more storage capacity to store more apps and games than Amazon Fire HDX 8.9, because it has 64 GB more internal memory capacity.
IPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025) counts with a superior camera than Amazon Fire HDX 8.9, because it has a bigger diafragm aperture and a back facing camera with much more megapixels. Amazon Fire HDX 8.9 features a battery lifetime that is very similar to the battery duration in Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025).
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