Customer Ratings & Reviews

Hard to navigate. It’s not at all intuitive. Spending a lot of time trying to figure it out.

Great tablet no issues with it at all very pleased

It’s amazing! My daughter enjoy it! It’s a great tablet for kids!

Great tablet for media consumption and a gateway into the amazon ecosystem!

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Great product. Great graphics and features. Fast shipping

Nice display and can carry lots of my reading material.

just bought this item check bck with me i a couple of months

Great product good quality i brought a tablet maybe in 2013

The Amazon Fire Max 11 is best tablet Amazon has ever released, with a better design, more power, more RAM, and a nicer screen than any previous Fire device. It is polished in ways that other Fire devices are not, and it has the potential to be an exellent tablet, even replacing a laptop for most modern work tasks. It is also endlessly frustrating if you don't know how to get around the roadblocks Amazon sets up that make the device nearly unusable. Specifically, the giant mega retailer has released an Android tablet that uses almost none of Google's excellent Android features, instead pushing its own half-baked apps, laughably barren app store, and confusing UI. And then there are the ads. Back to the beginning, though. Out of the box, the Fire Max 11 impresses with its design. The tablet is covered in dark grey aluminum which looks really good, with volume and power buttons along the right side of the screen, a magnetic landing pad for Amazon's new stylus on the right side, two speakers along the top, and magnetic mounts for the keyboard case on the bottom. The fit and finish of the button and speakers is impressive, but I would have preferred them to be just a little more "clicky." Inside the box along with the tablet are a USB-A to USB-C cable, a charger, and litle else. The early user experience is fine. You sign into wi-fi, add your Amazon account, perform some updates, and select some apps. There is a short welcome video and then you're off to the races! You might head over to the app store and start looking for your favorite Android apps to download, and... you'll be lucky if you find more than a handful. There is no YouTube app, no YouTube music, no Chrome browser, no Gmail, and the list goes on and on. Of course, you could always access these services through Amazon's own Silk web browser, perhaps setting up dozens of new bookmarks for sites that correspond with the apps you can just go download on your phone. But it's 2023, and you shouldn't have to do all these workarounds to deal with Amazon's travesty of an app store. There is another way, but it isn't for the faint of heart: sideloading apps. By finding the appropriate files online (from a trusted source), you can install the Google Play store onto the Fire Max 11. Once that's done, you can have all your favorite Google apps and get them all to almost work just right. Don't expect the Chrome browser to work for you if like to sync your bookmarks and passwords to the same email address you used to log in to your Amazon account on the Fire, but you can get most everything else you need working, and Microsoft's Edge browser (which does work and sync with your Google account) is bascially just a Chrome skin these days anyway. Oh but of course, this is an Amazon product, so it should handle integration with other Amazon devices just fine, right? Not so fast. You cannot download the Amazon Fire TV app from Amazon's app store, so if you have one of the company's streaming sticks and hope to use your new Amazon tablet to control it, or maybe watch Fire TV Recast DVR recordings (which I did want to do), you'll be out of luck unless you get the Play store and perform the workarounds described above. Without going out of you way to circument Amazon's limitations, the Fire Max 11 is little more than a video streaming and book reading device that happens to also have a web browser. It is not a productivity machine (unless you download Google's apps and add the Amazon keyboard case), and it certainly isn't a very full-featured tablet. When the Fire Max 11 is actually doing things people want to do, it does a pretty good job. I was not able to get it to connect to my Wi-Fi 6 router, even in the same room, but 5 GHz wi-fi is fine. The speakers are a bit anemic, but they get the job done for watching TV shows. The screen is fine, but not remarkable, and is noticeably grainy when it should be smooth. But for most people, most of the time, it is absolutely fine. I would recommond this tablet to the following groups: --People who aren't tech-savvy and only want a tablet to take advantage of Amazon offerings like Kindle Books and Prime Video --People who want a nice tablet and can deal with the sometimes frustrating task of manually installing apps, troubleshooting compatibility issues, and futzing with settings menus Everyone else, look elsewhere

Nice screen and decent speakers held back by Amazon flavor of Android. Had to pay to turn off Amazon advertisements.

Really helped me with viewing things as im legally blind

Very happy with this purchase and it's replacing my old iPad.

New sleek look and a clear resolution. Money well spent

Like the tablet but don't like the pop up ads. Also not able to get some of the apps I need.

This is an update to my previous Kindle. Love it!!

Fisrt time using a tablet. I like the portability.

Yet more Evidence that sometimes "good enough" is better then the kitchen sink.

Not as good as the Apple IPad. Screen looks cheap. Bought because it was cheap, but took it back. Was hard to get a web browser working with it.

Very good tablet especially for kids and toddlers!