Amazon on Wednesday reported an update to its line of Fire tablets that includes new components for both late-night readers and parents with kids. The over-the-air upgrade will start taking off for the company's Fire HD 10, Fire HD 8 and Fire tablets.
As a feature of its first major update for Fire OS 5, Amazon is bringing a brand new feature called Blue Shade which changes display color and brightness for ideal evening time reading to its line of Fire tablets.
Amazon says studies have demonstrated the blue light emitted from tablet displays can modify sleep patterns and suppress melatonin production if saw around evening time. To remedy that, Blue Shade will use particular filters to limit blue light presentation and permit clients to effortlessly include warmer filters and bring brightness to their wanted levels for reading at night.
Blue Shade is fundamentally the same to f.lux, a famous tool that lets clients modify the displays of their PCs and iOS gadgets to match the shade of the room they're in. Amazon says Blue Shade will start taking off over the following two weeks, so we'll soon see whether it can match up to f.lux's capacities.
Amazon is additionally including more parental controls as a component of the update. An Activity Center will show parents how their kids are using their Fire tablet, which will demonstrate the amount of time their children spend reading, playing games and watching videos. It will likewise give parents access to browsing history and which applications have been gotten to. Amazon is likewise launching a child-friendly program for the Fire tablets. The program will offer a curated selection of 40,000 age-proper YouTube videos and sites which Amazon says have been hand-chosen by its group of specialists. The browser can be turned on through Amazon FreeTime, its parental control center.
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