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There’s also a slightly less elegant POGO system for connecting accessories, with the exposed ports on the bottom edge of the tablet and gaps for accessories to snap into place.

I was either trying to avoid knocking the USB-C cable or accidentally hitting the power or volume keys. It’s a placement that took quite a while to get used to, and rather annoyingly, it became awkward to hold when charging. There’s also the odd placement of buttons, with the volume and power buttons appearing alongside the USB-C port and microSD slot on the short right-hand side of the tablet (when viewed horizontally, that is). While storage caps out at 64- or 128GB, you have a microSD card slot to extend storage when required. It does differ from Apple’s iPad in a handful of ways, though. It’s a shame that it’s only available in the relatively ‘professional’ grey finish, too – I think a splash of colour could’ve helped it stand out from a sea of other budget grey tablets available on Amazon’s storefront. That’s not necessarily bad considering Amazon’s tablet is much cheaper than the £499/$449 iPad 10, but it’s not exactly an original look. There are also a handful of pro-level accessories (I’ll get to those in a minute) and a fingerprint scanner built into the power button. The bezels are also similar to the iPad 10, the camera is embedded in the long side of the tablet for better landscape use, and even the rear camera protrudes from the shell in the same way that Apple’s does. Its aluminium body is squared off with flat edges, just like Apple’s option, but it doesn’t stop there. In fact, rather than looking like a Fire tablet, it looks more like one of Apple’s recent iPads – specifically, the 10th-gen iPad. In a bid to separate itself from the cheaper tablets in Amazon’s Fire collection, the Amazon Fire Max 11 looks decidedly more premium. Throw in 14 hours of battery life and you’ve got a pretty tempting option for less than £250 – as long as you can adjust to Amazon’s Fire OS offering, that is.

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It boasts an iPad-like design with an aluminium chassis, an 11-inch 2K display and better performance than most of the Android tablet competition at a similar price. However, that doesn’t mean it’s not a good tablet. That makes Amazon’s pitch for the Fire Max 11 as a productivity device a hard one to swallow, even with a pretty capable keyboard and stylus accessories available at additional cost. The App Store is pretty stocked with streaming apps, but it doesn’t have everything that you’d find on a regular Android tablet.

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While other tablets in Amazon’s Fire range are cheap and have specs to match, the Fire Max 11 boasts an overall more premium experience.Īmazon envisions this as the Fire tablet for work, but I’m not convinced by Amazon’s vision.Īfter all, the £249/$229 Amazon Fire Max 11 runs the same Fire OS as the rest of the Fire tablet collection – software based on Android 11, but utterly devoid of any Google apps or Google services, running Amazon equivalents instead.

The Amazon Fire Max 11 represents a change in tact from the global retail giant.

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