This Amazon Fire 7 review has shown that this is the best tablet at its price point, and will be enjoyed by many who haven't ventured upwards into the more expensive slates. Its response time and quickness to inform me about the weather was as speedy as one would hope from a regular Alexa speaker. That being said, there's no reason to give Amazon much credit here: Alexa was designed to be touch-free, and that should have always been the case.

Touch-free (voice-activated) Alexa is the latest improvement for the Fire 7, so you can now trigger the assistant with its name (with Echo and Computer as alternate hail-signs). The Walmart Onn does not have these limitations, running a more traditional build of Android (that has some ads for Walmart). In fact, when you open YouTube in the Silk browser (Chrome isn't available either), you get a slightly older version of YouTube.

Those who compute in Amazon households won't complain, but those who want real Google apps will find none: the Google Play store is not available on Amazon tablets, and neither is Gmail or YouTube. The slate's home screen sections - including those dedicated to ebooks, videos, games and shopping - are all arms of Amazon's many services.

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