Amazon’s Alexa Tablets are coming for the iPad

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/268799_AlexaTablet12Pro_8.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Amazon is launching a new lineup of tablets that bear almost no resemblance to any tablet Amazon has ever launched before. They're not even called Fire, the name Amazon has used for its tablets for the last 15 years. They're called Alexa Tablets, and they're designed to do two things: bring <a href="https://www.theverge.com/report/787171/amazon-alexa-plus-hardware-event-smart-home">Alexa Plus</a> to the center of your whole computing life, and be straight-up excellent tablets. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The most important thing about these new tablets' software? They run Android. Full, Google Play-supported, all-the-apps Android. There are plenty of preloaded Amazon apps, of course, and some built-in ways to quickly access Prime Video content or shop for basica …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1007648/amazon-alexa-tablets-price-specs">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>