{"id":21291,"date":"2020-06-07T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2585107"},"modified":"2020-06-07T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:30:00","slug":"amazon-fire-hd-8-has-one-tiny-feature-id-love-to-see-in-new-ipad-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/07\/amazon-fire-hd-8-has-one-tiny-feature-id-love-to-see-in-new-ipad-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Fire HD 8 has one tiny feature I\u2019d love to see in new iPad Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Opinion: the perfect front-facing camera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/amazon-fire-hd-8-2020\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1328194111531561500\">Amazon Fire HD 8<\/a>&nbsp;is a budget tablet designed as a lightweight and portable entertainment machine &#8211; it&#8217;s a little curious then, that it has one small but useful feature you won&#8217;t find on any iPad or Samsung tablet you can buy, not even the top-end&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/ipad-pro-129-2018\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"2562603746295236600\">iPad Pros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This feature is the placement of the front-facing camera &#8211; something so minor it&#8217;s hard to even call it a &#8216;feature&#8217; &#8211; but the implications of this move are pretty big when it comes to video calling, something many people do daily on their smartphone, tablet or laptop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-widget\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" data-widget-id=\"1077101027826095100\" data-result=\"missing\"><\/aside>\n<p>Simply put, the Amazon Fire HD 8&#8217;s front-facing camera is above the display when holding the tablet landscape, the orientation you typically use for video chats, but when holding any other tablet this way (including the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/ipad-pro-129-2018\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"9127973312182225000\">iPad Pro<\/a>, which is my go-to slate), it&#8217;s to the side.<\/p>\n<p>Does this sound like an incredibly tiny feature that barely makes a difference in the way you use your tablet? Maybe, but hear me out.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-problems-with-video-chat\">The problems with video chat<\/h2>\n<p>Video chatting is impersonal, and not only because you&#8217;re not talking face-to-face &#8211; when you&#8217;re on an online call, you&#8217;re looking at your screen to see who&#8217;s talking, and this means you&#8217;re not looking at the camera. To other people, then, you appear to be looking too far to the left, right, or above, instead of straight ahead.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to the side, or away from the screen, you can seem disinterested in the conversation, and that&#8217;s no good whether you&#8217;re chatting with friends or family, or are on an important work call.<\/p>\n<p>Even when you&#8217;re aware people are on a video chat and are just looking at their screen, not the camera, we&#8217;re so used to face-to-face interaction and body language, it can be hard to always bear that fact in mind.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"amazon-fire-hd-8-to-the-rescue\">Amazon Fire HD 8 to the rescue<\/h2>\n<p>The iPad Pro is one of the worst offenders for distant front-facing cameras in tablets, especially if you use a 12.9-inch model &#8211; when staring at the centre of the screen, you&#8217;re looking far away from the camera, so it seems you&#8217;re staring into the distance instead of engaging in a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The new Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) has something that we&#8217;ve barely seen on tablets before, though &#8211; not even on the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/amazon-fire-hd-8-2018\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1053589438527969300\">2018 mode<\/a>l. That is, as we&#8217;ve already stated, a front-facing camera that&#8217;s above the screen when holding it horizontally.<\/p>\n<p>Given the Amazon Fire HD 8&#8217;s screen isn&#8217;t huge (8 inches diagonally, hence the name), when you&#8217;re looking at the screen, it seems that you&#8217;re staring straight ahead. We&#8217;ve put comparison pictures below to show the effect of this.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, when using the Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) compared to any other tablet, it makes the conversation experience that bit more personal and direct.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People actually think we&#8217;re listening to them talk. We&#8217;d love to see this appear in more business and productivity-centric tablets, like the iPad Pro, just to make that video calling experience that bit better.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the iPad Pro would benefit from this changed camera location more than any tablet thanks to its Face ID &#8211; currently the feature doesn&#8217;t always work if you&#8217;re staring at the screen, and you have to make an effort to look at the camera when you&#8217;re turning on the tablet for it to work. If a future iPad Pro had a relocated front-facing camera, Face ID functionality would be greatly improved.<\/p>\n<p>iPad Pros clearly aren&#8217;t designed for use when holding the device portrait either &#8211; not only are they too big to hold like this, but the various stands Apple makes for them only work in landscape.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s likely a reason most tablets have the front-facing camera array in the position they do, but by tweaking this and moving the snapper slightly, video calling would be greatly improved and the range of other front-facing camera features, like AR and facial unlocking, would benefit too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/amazon-fire-hd-8-2020\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/amazon-fire-hd-8-2020<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Tom Bedford<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Tom Bedford<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: the perfect front-facing camera The new&nbsp;Amazon Fire HD 8&nbsp;is a budget tablet designed as a lightweight and portable entertainment machine &ndash; it&rsquo;s a little curious then, that it has one small but useful feature you won&rsquo;t find on any iPad or Samsung tablet you can buy, not even the top-end&nbsp;iPad Pros. This feature is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/07\/amazon-fire-hd-8-has-one-tiny-feature-id-love-to-see-in-new-ipad-pros\/\">Continue reading <span>Amazon Fire HD 8 has one tiny feature I&rsquo;d love to see in new iPad Pros<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/07\/amazon-fire-hd-8-has-one-tiny-feature-id-love-to-see-in-new-ipad-pros\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amazon Fire HD 8 has one tiny feature I\u2019d love to see in new iPad Pros - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/07\/amazon-fire-hd-8-has-one-tiny-feature-id-love-to-see-in-new-ipad-pros\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amazon Fire HD 8 has one tiny feature I\u2019d love to see in new iPad Pros - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opinion: the perfect front-facing camera The new&nbsp;Amazon Fire HD 8&nbsp;is a budget tablet designed as a lightweight and portable entertainment machine &ndash; it&rsquo;s a little curious then, that it has one small but useful feature you won&rsquo;t find on any iPad or Samsung tablet you can buy, not even the top-end&nbsp;iPad Pros. 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