Amazon slashes price and adds Alexa to new Fire tablet

Amazon wants to be under the Christmas tree this year. It's cut the price of its new Fire tablet almost in half and added its popular voice assistant, Alexa, in hopes of making it a hot holiday item, despite a slump in overall tablet sales. The new Fire HD8 tablet will cost 90, down from 150. Amazon cut the price of its new Fire tablet almost in half and added its popular voice assistant, Alexa, in hopes of making it a hot holiday item, despite a slump in overall tablet sales. Mixed-use battery life is up to 12 hours from 8, and the base storage is doubled to 16 gigabytes.