Amazon's Alexa is finally coming to mobile, but not how you might expect

"Alexa" is coming to mobile — provided that mobile device is made by Amazon. Amazon today announced a new tablet, the Fire HD 8, which bears the same name as the Fire HD 8 tablet before it. The new tablet has the same eight-inch, 1280 by 800 resolution touchscreen display like its predecessor; but is also built with 50 percent more RAM (1.5 gigabytes), double the base storage (16GB or 32GB), and a larger battery that Amazon claims will last up to 12 hours. It is, for all intents and purposes, a very decent piece of tablet hardware, all for $90. And Amazon says its approach to mak... more »