

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 – more 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. However, if you can get along with the app offering and Amazon branding, the Fire Max 11 is a solid budget tablet with performance besting most of the cheap competition, a solid 11-inch display, an aluminium frame and 14 hours of battery life. 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. It’s certainly a change from the cheap-as-chips Fire tablets Amazon usually makes, but can Amazon compete at the higher price point?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 is the latest top-end Fire tablet from Amazon, boasting a bigger display, better performance and longer battery life than the Fire HD 10 Plus.

