Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I want to start off by saying that I currently own 3 tablets; a fire HD 10 11th gen, an ipad {8th gen} and this new Fire 7 12th gen. I use a Samsung S22 for my phone, have an Echo device in nearly every room, a gaming computer and a discount laptop. The Fire 7 is a digital life upgrade for anyone and Amazon released it at a price point that makes this a quality tablet that anyone can add to their life. I tested all 3 of the tablets and their "plus" versions, that Amazon is offering this holiday season. I am most impressed with this guy the 2022 Fire 7. I use it more than any of my other devices at this point. It fits perfectly in one hand for me and although it doesn't have the responsiveness of my $1400 phone, it's plenty quick for me and I need/enjoy using a larger screen. The Fire 7 is more than just my go to for accesss to all things Amazon, it's a perfect e-reader, my video calling go to, my online shopping tool, the remote for all my smart home devices and it's the perfect size to carry around the house. I purchased my Fire 7 with lockscreen ads. I don't even notice them and advertising doesn't bother me generally since it's all tailored to my preferences these days. I much rather spend that $15 dollars on a bigger micro sd card. I have a 512gb card installed on mine. I do a fair bit of traveling and to be able to have this portable giant library of books, media and films is going to be priceless. The Google Play Store can be installed on any Fire tablet with very limited technical knowledge. It increases the devices usefulness and enjoyablity having access to all apps. If installing the Play store seems overwhelming to you ask a teenager in your life for help or pay some lonely coffeeshop some programmer $10 bucks to do it for you. I really just wish Google and Amazon would kiss and make up already. These make great gifts for just about anyone in your life. Get it with the ads and use the money saved to throw a 128bg micro sd card in with the gift. The 16/32gb that it comes with are unacceptable. Amazon gets dinged here for that. With the memory being used by the un-deletable Amazon apps and the system, if you purchase the 16gb version, you have under 8gbs of memory. Download one movie and you're out of storage space. Unacceptable! All Fire tablets should come with 64gb of memory standard. Things I wouldn't recommend this for; gaming, as a mini laptop, playing music or as cheap Echo show 8. The Fire 7 is the only Fire tablet that doesn't do "show" mode, which essentially turns your docked tablet into an Echo Show (in theory). You aren't missing out on anything. Echo shows are completely different and amazing machines and the Fire 8 and 10 do a lousy imitation. I just can't say it enough. I get so much use out of this tablet. For $60 it's an unbelievable value. I have a gaming rig and a $1400 phone and I find this tablets speed and responsiveness tolerable. Tolerable enough to make it my go to casual usage device. For everything most people will use a tablet for this does the job wonderfully and at a price that's affordable to most everybody. Bezos has come to give tablets to the people! Do yourself a favor and get the 32gb model. 10/10, five stars. Excellent. The 12th gen Fire 7 is a total win.