It doesn’t sound like much but there’s a pretty big difference when you have them right next to each other. The screen on the new Fire is about an eighth of an inch wider and a sixteenth of an inch shorter than the previous Fire (in portrait mode). The weird thing about the screens is they are both 7-inches with the same resolution, but the screen dimensions are slightly different. For example, the white page of an ebook is much whiter on the 2017 Fire, where it has more of a cloudy blue tinge on the older one.
Colors are quite different in general on the new model. The screen is brighter, colors are slightly more vivid, text readability has improved, and the viewing angles are wider. Both have 1024 x 600 resolution IPS displays, but the screen on the newer model has been upgraded. The main difference between the two models is the screen.
Plus the 2017 Fire adds dual-band Wi-Fi and the Bluetooth version is 4.1 instead of 4.0. One of the minor differences with the new model is it supports 256GB microSD cards, whereas the old Fire supports up to 200GB cards (originally 128 before an update). Here’s the list of detailed specs for Amazon’s tablets, and you can see not much has changed from the 2015 Fire tablet.
Both have the same exact processor, the same amount of storage space and RAM, the same front and rear cameras, and both have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. That’s pretty much everything in a nutshell.
