Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Alexa Tablet 11, Alexa Tablet 8: Specs, Features, Price

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The era of Amazon’s Fire tablets—cheap slate computers ranging from $60 to $280—is over. All of the Fire tablets are being replaced by the all-aluminum Amazon Alexa Tablet. These tablets will, in a first for Amazon, run official Android and have full access to the Google Play Store. The lack of proper app support was always a sticking point for the Fire tablets, which ran a custom version of Android and had a much more limited app library.

亚马逊 Fire 平板电脑（价格在 60 美元到 280 美元之间的廉价平板电脑）的时代已经结束。所有的 Fire 平板电脑都将被全铝材质的亚马逊 Alexa 平板电脑所取代。这是亚马逊首次在其平板电脑上运行官方 Android 系统，并全面支持 Google Play 商店。缺乏完善的应用程序支持一直是 Fire 平板电脑的痛点，因为它们运行的是定制版 Android 系统，应用库非常有限。

The new Alexa Tablet series comes in three models: the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro ($500), Alexa Tablet 11 ($330), and Alexa Tablet 8 ($230), with the numbers corresponding to the display size. Amazon is also offering kids’ editions of the latter two devices at the same prices. These include bumper cases for extra protection, a one-year, worry-free guarantee to replace the device if it breaks, and a year of Amazon Kids+ service to fill the tablet with age-appropriate content.

全新的 Alexa 平板电脑系列共有三款型号：Alexa Tablet 12 Pro（500 美元）、Alexa Tablet 11（330 美元）和 Alexa Tablet 8（230 美元），数字对应显示屏尺寸。亚马逊还以同样的价格提供后两款设备的儿童版。这些版本包括用于额外保护的防撞外壳、一年内设备损坏可更换的无忧保修，以及一年的 Amazon Kids+ 服务，为平板电脑提供适合年龄的内容。

As for Fire tablets, Amazon says it will stop shipping the devices in the next month or two. It will support them for four years from the last ship date. Amazon is committing to at least four years of software updates for the new Alexa tablets, which will launch with Android 16 and will receive Android 17 early in 2027. Preorders for the new Alexa Tablets are open now, and they’ll begin shipping on October 14.

至于 Fire 平板电脑，亚马逊表示将在未来一两个月内停止发货。亚马逊将从最后发货之日起为这些设备提供四年的支持。亚马逊承诺为新款 Alexa 平板电脑提供至少四年的软件更新，这些设备将搭载 Android 16 系统发布，并于 2027 年初升级至 Android 17。新款 Alexa 平板电脑现已开启预订，并将于 10 月 14 日开始发货。

The experience is largely the same on all three tablets, with aluminum builds designed to mimic the new aluminum Kindles. The MediaTek Dimensity 8189 chip powers the two smaller tablets, whereas the 12-inch device gets a little more power from the MediaTek Dimensity 8400.

这三款平板电脑的使用体验基本相同，均采用铝制机身，设计灵感源自新款铝制 Kindle。两款较小的平板电脑搭载联发科天玑 8189 芯片，而 12 英寸机型则配备性能更强的联发科天玑 8400 芯片。

The Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is the outlier of the trio, as it’s the only one with two display variants: a standard 12-inch LCD screen or a 12-inch Nanomatte display with anti-glare and anti-reflective properties. Upgrade to the Nanomatte—starting at $550—for a matte, paperlike look and feel. With a peak brightness of 500 nits, it should still be bright enough to view in sunlight.

Alexa Tablet 12 Pro 是这三款产品中的特例，它是唯一提供两种显示屏版本的机型：标准的 12 英寸 LCD 屏幕或具有防眩光和防反射特性的 12 英寸 Nanomatte 显示屏。升级至 Nanomatte 版本（起价 550 美元）可获得哑光、纸质般的外观和触感。其峰值亮度为 500 尼特，在阳光下观看依然足够清晰。

Amazon says it developed this screen in partnership with Corning (the company that makes most of the glass that protects smartphone displays). It’s similar to the matte displays found on devices like TCL’s Nxtpaper series, though Amazon’s vice president of devices, Kevin Keith, says the hexagon-shaped imprint on the Nanomatte display can push out vivid colors and crisp blacks while still retaining those matte properties.

亚马逊表示，这款屏幕是与康宁公司（大多数智能手机显示屏保护玻璃的制造商）合作开发的。它类似于 TCL Nxtpaper 系列等设备上的哑光显示屏，但亚马逊设备副总裁凯文·基思（Kevin Keith）表示，Nanomatte 显示屏上的六边形压印可以在保持哑光特性的同时，呈现出鲜艳的色彩和深邃的黑色。

The screen also offers a “really good” writing experience, according to Keith. He says the same engineers who worked on the Kindle Scribe worked with Corning to get that paperlike feel. The screen works with Amazon’s new Alexa Tablet Pro Pen ($90), which has 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity, plus tilt detection. The pen can magnetically dock to the top of the slate for charging and pairing. Amazon also sells a Pro Keyboard ($150) for the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, which attaches to the device via the pogo pins on the bottom edge—no Bluetooth needed.

据基思称，该屏幕还提供了“非常出色”的书写体验。他说，曾参与 Kindle Scribe 开发的工程师与康宁公司合作，实现了这种纸质般的触感。该屏幕支持亚马逊新款 Alexa Tablet Pro Pen（90 美元），该笔具有 4096 级压力感应和倾斜检测功能。手写笔可以磁吸在平板顶部进行充电和配对。亚马逊还为 Alexa Tablet 12 Pro 出售一款 Pro 键盘（150 美元），通过底部的触点连接设备，无需蓝牙。

Now that Android has recently gained multiwindowing features, attaching the keyboard turns the largest Alexa tablet into a productivity machine: split apps across the screen, resize them into various windows, and “save” several desktop arrangements so you can pick up where you left off.

随着 Android 最近增加了多窗口功能，连接键盘后，这款最大的 Alexa 平板电脑就变成了一台生产力工具：可以在屏幕上拆分应用程序、调整窗口大小，并“保存”多种桌面布局，以便随时恢复工作进度。

For the kids’ versions of the Alexa Tablet 11 and Alexa Tablet 8, Amazon says the software is still Android with a heavily customized interface for kid-friendly content and built-in parental controls. Keith says one in five kids in the US has an Amazon tablet, so it’ll be interesting to see how that changes now that these devices start at a higher price.

对于 Alexa Tablet 11 和 Alexa Tablet 8 的儿童版，亚马逊表示其软件依然是 Android 系统，但针对儿童内容进行了深度定制，并内置了家长控制功能。基思表示，美国每五个孩子中就有一个拥有亚马逊平板电脑，因此，随着这些设备起售价的提高，市场份额将如何变化，值得关注。

The top-left corner of the home screen features a persistent widget called the Dynamic Tab. This scrollable widget lets you dive into Amazon content you may have been consuming on another device—say, if you were reading on your Kindle, watching a movie on Prime Video on your iPhone, or snapped some photos and you want to view them on Amazon Photos.

主屏幕左上角有一个名为“动态标签”（Dynamic Tab）的常驻小部件。这个可滚动的小部件让你能够快速访问你在其他设备上消费的亚马逊内容——例如，如果你之前在 Kindle 上阅读、在 iPhone 上通过 Prime Video 看电影，或者拍摄了一些照片并想在 Amazon Photos 中查看。