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Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8
The world's two richest retailers also sell some of the cheapest tablets you can buy. We put their latest 8-inch slates head-to-head to see what a sub-$100 tablet gets you in 2025.
For folks on a tighter budget, I’ve spent the last few weeks testing a couple of 8-inch slates on the dirt-cheap end of the price spectrum: the $100 (but frequently discounted) Amazon Fire HD 8 and the $79 Walmart Onn 8”. Google doesn’t charge a license fee to implement its DRM tech, so there’s little excuse for Walmart — a$700 billion company — to ship a tablet that isn’t fully certified, even if it’s a cheapo model. If you want a cheap screen for some pet project that doesn’t involve streaming, the Onn may still work: Its display quality and aluminum finish are surprisingly decent for $79, and its version of Android is far less obnoxious than Fire OS.
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