- Today, it's the $1,000 tablet versus the $100 tablet,
plus a drop test that led to this.
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Before I do a side-by-side comparison of the new iPad Pro
and the new Fire HD 8, brand new, just released,
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I am going to do a full unboxing of the Fire tablet
and you're going to be amazed
where this actually outperformed
the almost $1,000 iPad Pro.
It's shocking.
And then obviously, you'll see the night and day comparison
on where this tablet holds its own.
So let's go to the unboxing and the test.
All right, let's begin with the unboxing.
You can see I always wear shorts
when I'm wearing a shirt and tie.
Just a little secret.
Oh, they've actually improved their packaging a little bit.
Now this is by no means Apple packaging.
It's not gorgeous.
It's very practical.
You get the charge cable.
You do get an adapter.
Now a lot of the cheaper
and inexpensive tablets on the market
just provide you with a micro USB or a charge cable.
They don't give you the adapter.
So that is key.
And your welcome catalog.
All right.
This is a nice wide-screen tablet.
It feels good in the hands,
but not on the same level as when I held my daughter
for her first time after she was born.
You'll notice that you just have a single lens camera,
one lens on the back, you don't have multi-camera,
you don't have several different lenses.
Let's turn this on and set this up.
You can see the screen size.
Obviously, you could get the 10-inch Fire tablet,
but for the point of this price comparison,
you'll notice that the eight-inch screen
is obviously significantly smaller
than the screen on the iPad Pro.
Since the eight-inch Fire tablet has the same specs
as the 10-inch Fire tablet, the big question is,
what is the speed compared to the iPad?
So, the iPad Pro uses Safari
and Amazon's own Silk browser is present on the Fire tablet.
Safari, definitely a more expansive, advanced browser
that I don't think is as good as Google Chrome,
but it is better than Silk if you put them side by side.
With that being said, let's do a page load test.
I did a video on how to instantly
make your Wi-Fi speed faster.
Let's see which one loads faster.
One, two, three.
Silk.
That's actually by a second, right.
That's unbelievable.
Let's go back.
Let's try this again.
Silk should not be faster.
Let's go to, I'm trying to find videos
that I haven't opened before, so "10 Shopping Secrets."
There we go.
All right, here we go.
One, two, three.
Silk again.
All right.
That is frightening.
Gonna visit my website now
because I've never visited it from the Fire tablet,
although it is probably cached on the iPad
from a while ago.
MattsDailyDeals.com.
There we go.
Matts, you can see it's cached.
All right, so the iPad should have an advantage.
Let's try, one, two, three.
Okay, the iPad had an advantage on a cached page.
That's fine.
Let's open up something brand new.
All right.
By the way, you're welcome to join my email newsletter.
That's what it's telling you to do.
For this page load test,
I'm going to load the $24 action cam deal that I featured.
One, two, three.
About a second on the iPad Pro.
The iPad Pro is generally supposed to be
a second faster on video.
For whatever reason, the Fire tablet was faster.
If you look at the pages side-by-side,
you'll notice that the retina display on the iPad Pro
is a little bit more white,
the black are a little bit darker,
and side by side, you can see that there's
almost like a slightly yellowish tint,
almost, or an off-white, kinda cream color,
when a white is depicted on the Fire tablet.
With that being said,
if you simply remove the iPad Pro
and you look at this tablet on its own,
the glossy display is more than sufficient.
If you were gonna shop Amazon or watch a Prime Video,
obviously, the Fire tablet is formatted to run faster
on all of Amazon's products,
all of their apps.
Everything will move unbelievably quickly.
Page scrolls.
It's a fluid operating system.
If you were to load something like Prime Video,
it's always, this is the first time I'm actually using it
on this tablet, but it's always going to load faster.
Netflix, as a whole, fast on both tablets,
but if you are part of the Amazon ecosystem,
it is all built deliberately to run the way it does
on a Fire tablet and you're going to be more than impressed.
If you look at the two tablets side by side,
you're going to find that the Fire tablet,
despite all of its controls and how easy it is to use,
the video is at a slight disadvantage
compared to the retina display on the iPad Pro.
But that's understandable, right?
We're comparing a nearly $1,000 tablet
to a nearly $100 tablet.
I definitely get a lot more annoying pop-ups
on the iPad Pro in terms of backup and cloud storage.
The initial sign-up for the Fire tablet has more things
that it wants me to do as a free trial
but then it kind of leaves you alone.
You'll notice though
that there's not a huge difference between the two, right?
It's present, but it's not in your face.
And for the video screen,
obviously, on an eight-inch tablet,
it's always going to look inferior, but not by a lot.
I'm really impressed by this.
I think the most pronounced difference between the two
is going to be the cameras, and with that,
we're gonna do an HD video test right now.
Welcome to my new balcony in my new home
if you guys haven't noticed yet.
I am very high up over the city of Toronto
and I am going to shoot both photos and video.
And I apologize, it's a little bit windy
So we're gonna start with a photo on the iPad Pro.
Let's actually, let's come over here.
Let's do a really good photo.
All right, here's the photo from the iPad.
(camera clicks)
And I'm obviously gonna show this to you guys side by side.
And let's do a photo on the Fire tablet.
And you can already see just looking through this right now,
it looks like a cellphone camera from the early 2000s.
Let's do video.
Gonna switch to video.
I'll tell you that even switching
between photo and video is not that simple.
You have a, there's like a pullout menu that...
There we go, camera and video.
It's not that intuitive.
Let's go to video and we're gonna shoot video now.
I'll do a panning shot, so I'm gonna.
There you go this way.
I'm trying to do a fast pan
just so you guys can see how this all looks.
So this is the Fire tablet panning video.
My daughter calls these toy cars whenever she looks down.
She doesn't realize that they're just cars from a distance.
And now for the Fire tablet,
obviously you're gonna get 4K video.
Just looking through the city at this display
is night and day.
But again, you're spending over $900 for this.
I would expect the camera to be amazing, and it is.
(camera clicks)
And now for the drop test.
I'm not going to drop a $900 iPad Pro onto the ground.
I'll tell you exactly what's gonna happen.
That screen's gonna crack
and I'm not gonna pay for it.
But for the sake of this demonstration,
I'm gonna show you what happens
when I drop the Fire tablet right onto concrete.
So here we go, one, two, three.
(tablet thumps)
So far, so good.
No markings on the case.
Let's go again, I'm trying to get it face down.
One, two, three.
(tablet smacks)
That's gotta hurt.
And it is cracked.
Completely cracked.
So I would say the durability on this
is not a whole lot different
from what you would see on the iPad Pro.
The only difference is the case itself,
and this is where things get very exciting.
I'm going to show you
that, no matter what I do to the back of the case,
it doesn't get as marked up or as marred
as that beautiful glass and chrome exterior
that we see on Apple products, so here we go.
(tablet bangs)
(tablet slams)
That was hard.
And you'll look, the back is almost completely unscathed.
You got a little bit of issues on the border, on the rim,
but let's go again.
(tablet slams)
Almost perfect.
I'll do one, one more slam test.
One, two, three.
(tablet bangs)
The screen keeps breaking and going,
but the back and all of the other components,
that is a hard, durable plastic.
So what have we learned from this video?
Well if you watched my prior Fire tablet videos
where I repeatedly smashed this
against the hardwood floor of a building
that I was in at the time, it held up better
than the new Fire tablet.
This was a quick break.
I will tell you though, there's absolutely
no tablet on the market that would do better or worse
dropping it from this level onto hard concrete.
My point being, other than that being so fun,
this is not any more durable
as the glass screen on the iPad,
but hey, you drop it, you lose $90 to $100.
You're not out all the cash you would spend.
Even to get the screen repair on an iPad Pro
is more expensive that what you would experience
replacing this whole tablet.
Now that I'm back inside,
I'll show you that the smashed Fire tablet
is working beautifully.
I can see all of the photos that I took outside, my video.
Obviously, you have to be careful
not to cut your hands on the glass
and I don't recommend doing this at home,
but it is working perfectly as a tablet.
Kind of amazing, right, despite all of the smashes
and slams that I gave this.
Beautiful.
Now what is the big takeaway message?
The Fire HD 8 is a fully capable tablet
for consuming content.
That means Prime Video, Netflix, all of your favorite apps.
With the Amazon Alexa service built in,
you can simply say the A word.
Alexa, turn off the studio.
Alexa, turn on the studio.
So you have the ability to control your whole home
from this almost $100 tablet.
Yes, you can do that with Siri.
But I'm trying to explain that the functionality
tied into this tablet is unbelievable.
And it's great for consuming content,
so for surfing the internet on your couch,
for using this as a media player,
for giving this to a kid or a teen or a tween
where they can watch their content
and there are all parent controls available to parents.
This is a tablet that's going to get it all done.
There's no way in my right mind
that I'm going to hand any child of mine an iPad.
But I'd gladly give someone this.
This is also a great gift.
It's good for beginners, people that are looking
to enter into the tablet world,
that they're people that are looking
to discover smarthome products.
This is a great way to use this
as a control mechanism for your smarthome.
You could even use this as a secondary
universal remote control for your television.
You could download the Roku app, the Fire TV app.
There's infinite ways that you can implement this
into your world without having to spend
a lot of money or commit to it.
With that being said, the cameras on here,
whether it's for a front-facing camera conversation
or the rear camera for capturing video
and hoping to do any tasks that involve photo editing
or video editing, that is 100% not your tablet.
If you want a tablet that could potentially replace a laptop
or come close to that, this is the tablet to grab.
The iPad Pro, by the time you add the keyboard
and the Apple Pencil, you're well north of that $1,000 mark,
but it is a fully capable design system.
It can help you in different professions,
and this tablet might not be the one to grab for that.
So for consuming content, Fire tablet.
For producing content, iPad Pro.
And either way, the tax on the iPad Pro
is more than the entire cost of this tablet,
just to put that into perspective.
So well done for the designers of the Fire tablet,
and the iPad Pro obviously doesn't need me
to give it a two thumbs up.
You'll know why that is good,
although I don't like the price.
So I hope you did find this interesting.
If you have a different tablet you want me to test,
or if there's a different comparison you want me to do,
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Bye-bye.