Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (newest model), streaming device, with AI-powered Fire TV Search, supports Wi-Fi 6E, free & live TV without cable or satellite, find shows faster with Alexa+

An incredible upgrade! Apps open instantly, navigation is buttery smooth, and the 4K picture quality is stunning. The extra storage makes a huge difference compared to older models. Blown away by how fast and responsive this streaming stick is. Setup took minutes, the voice remote works like a charm, and it handles heavy streaming without a single stutter. Highly recommend!

I’ve been really happy with my Fire Stick. It was quick to set up, and the interface is easy to navigate, even if you’re not very tech-savvy. I love having all of my streaming apps in one place, and the picture quality is great with very little buffering when connected to a good Wi-Fi signal. The voice remote is one of my favorite features because it makes searching for movies and shows much faster than typing everything out. The Fire Stick also receives regular updates and offers a wide variety of free and paid entertainment options. The only downside is that the home screen can feel a little cluttered with recommendations and ads, but it doesn’t take away from the overall experience. Overall, I’d definitely recommend the Fire Stick to anyone looking for an affordable and reliable streaming device. It offers excellent value for the price and has made watching TV much more convenient.

I'm no IT gal but, my new fire stick is great! Super easy to set up and install. I had an earlier version that worked well but my new stick is better. It enhanced my picture so much I'm shocked. It's like I up graded my tv. The picture is brighter and so crisp. My husband immediately bought one for his big TV he was going to replace. Yeah, it made his picture just as great as mine. Both televisions are faster and I'm able to increase my library size without affecting anything negatively. The remote is a little bigger and button placement changed a little. I like the new size. Simple to get used to. It is actually faster when I'm surfing and in general. Great purchase.

If i knew the game changer this thing was, id have bought it as soon as it came out. I mean, the image is way sharper. It just processes so much better. And the remote, while it took me a few days for the damn programable buttons to stay programmed, its pretty swert. And i cant tell you how many times i lose my remote in my bed or around the room. I forget sometimes and start searching for it, and upon starting to get frustrared, id remember i can just ask alexa to find my remote and it starts beeping and to be honest, id be where i clearly looked too, so i might need glasses. On the meantime alexa saves the day, and i love bein able to see what im pressing instead of having to angle the remote so i can get light on the buttons. Now, we are talking more technology that ive ever been used to or could have asked for, so im currently dealing with an issue that wasnt an issue before. It suddently started and i havent been able to figure it out. When i turn my tv off with the max remote, both my fire tv and stick will shut off, first the tv and the still shortly after. I know cause you can still hear whatever waz playin on my echo speakers and then curs off, meanin its off. Well, now i cant get the stick to turn off, or ill get the stivk but not the tv. Its a nighmare. Im currently tellin alexa to turn the tv off, but that only shuts the stick, i used the original tv remote to just click it off. Imma get gemini to help me with that soon. But well worth it regarthless of my current situationship with the off dilema.

UPDATE 6 WEEKS LATER: Amazon has made some noteworthy improvements with subsequent software updates. Ambient Experience: It's still a bit laggy - Amazon has more optimizing work to be done here. But it's not nearly as bad. Also, originally the Ambient Experience always shut off after only 14 minutes and there was no option to change that; but Amazon has added options to set a longer timeout, including up to several hours or "never." The AE isn't perfect, but it's much better now. Permissions: Amazon added in the Manage All Files permission with the 8.1.0.1 firmware update, and it works correctly. They could do a better job at documenting this - you have to know to go into settings and manually grant the permission, you can't do this in a pop-up permission request - but it does work, so that's an important fix. The other permission differences (like Nearby Devices) are, in fairness, only really for use with sideloaded apps for power users, so it's no surprise that Amazon hasn't added those into the interface. Some users had experienced that problem that sideloaded apps showed blank icons, but Amazon fixed that very quickly. There are still other minor glitches with Fire OS 8, but it's much more stable already, and working well for its primary purpose - streaming. I think the Max is shaping up to be a reasonable and much cheaper alternative to the Fire TV Cube now for those who don't need the hands-free voice and HDMI input. The Max is also much faster and with double the storage compared to the sluggish Chromecast with Google TV. A note on the remote control: unfortunately, after a few days the solid-feeling remote control loosened up. The upside is that the battery cover comes off more easily now. But the bad part is that the remote is now *very* creaky and feels so loose it's almost like it could come apart in your hand with ordinary usage. It doesn't, but it sure feels cheap. ORIGINAL REVIEW: For context, I've been using the Fire TV Cube 3rd Gen as my primary streaming device for several months, after trying a number of Android TV devices and having problems with all of them. I got the new Fire Stick Max 2nd Gen to try out Fire OS 8 and the Ambient Experience. It turns out that Fire OS 8 and the Ambient Experience are the problem here. The hardware is the best I've used in a streaming stick or dongle. Snappy and responsive overall, great wifi, plenty of storage. In fact, in browsing the UI and launching apps, the Max is not far behind the Cube, and wifi is every bit as good. But the Ambient Experience is a problem. It's a good idea, it looks nice, and it has lots of options. But those options are rather confusing. More importantly, the AE is disastrously laggy. When customizing, it'll lag long enough you'd think it didn't register a button press at all. When launching the AE, the screen goes completely blank for several seconds as if the TV was shut off, before very slowly loading the image and widgets. It needs a ton of optimizing before it's any good. And Fire OS 8 based on Android 11 is a problem here too. What's the same from Fire TV 7/Android 9 still works just fine, but some of what's changed is broken. Most notably, Android 10 and 11 introduced lots of permissions changes that required apps to be modified and users to adjust their settings. And Amazon seems to have totally missed out on that for Fire OS 8. The most obvious is storage permissions: in Fire OS 8, file managers and other apps that access storage like VLC - apps that are in the Amazon Appstore - are just completely broken, because there's no way in the UI to grant the new storage permissions. (Storage permission is listed in settings, but it doesn't work.) These changes were announced more than 4 years ago and were very widely discussed and reported on throughout the Android world, so there's no excuse for Amazon not to have addressed that in preparing Fire OS 8. (The permission can be granted at the command line using adb, but that is cumbersome and should not be needed just to let a file manager manage files.) There are other permissions issues, too, but storage is the glaring serious problem. Quick note on the remote: although it's the same buttons, size, and shape as the remote with the Cube, the build quality is quite different. The Cube remote feels really cheaply built and is creaky and slippery; the Max remote feels like good quality and doesn't creak. On the other hand, it's really difficult to open the battery cover on the Max remote. Amazon has done a good job with the hardware on the Max 2nd Gen. But they have a lot of work to do to optimize and fix bugs in Fire OS 8 and the Ambient Experience.

I’m very happy with this Fire TV. The picture quality is great, the interface is easy to use, and setting everything up was quick and simple. Apps load smoothly, and having all my streaming services in one place is very convenient. For the price, I think it offers excellent value. Overall, a great TV for everyday use and I would definitely recommend it. **Review Title:** Great Picture and Excellent Value

First time doing streaming on the TV. Purchased Starlink and that was the best thing I ever did. Love that service. I was going to go with Rocu but decided to purchase FireStick instead. It was fairly easy to set up. Also the remote was included and found it small and difficult to hold. At first I wasn't going to purchase additional covers but after I did, I really like these. Not worried about the Glow in the Dark. Don't care. What I do care about it is that the remote isn't slippery any more; it doesn't slide off the arm of the chair, and is easier to hold. I love it, but it is difficult to find the right size. I had to purchaese one for the firestick remote and the additional remote that we added to each TV set. Easier if we both have a remote. That was a bit tricky but when you purchase your remote cover, check the length and size of the cover to purchae the right one.

Very nice fire stick. If you’re thinking of getting a fire stick, I recommend you just go ahead and buy this one. I have all three versions in different places in my house. I have the lite, for example, in my garage. This one is noticeably quicker and snappier. Also ambiance mode is nice. It’s also nice to have the smart home features right there. I can’t attest to the remote, though, since I use the better remote that the sell. EDIT: I'm so upset with this thing. It's been just under a year since we bought it (writing this August 2026, purchased September 2025). A week ago I was still praising this fire stick. Now out of nowhere and for seemingly no reason whatsoever, it has started crapping out on me. It randomly freezes up on me and won't do anything, forcing me to unplug the device and wait, before plugging it back in and trying again, only for it to freeze up again a few minutes later. The only thing I can find online that might help is to clear all the caches for the app that I use, which I've done, and it still keeps doing it. You're suppose to be able to hold the center button and the play button to force a restart, but even that doesn't work MOST of the time and the two times it DID work, it got stuck on the "Your Fire TV is turning off" message, and never actually did so. I have over half the storage space left, partially because I didn't have a ton of apps to begin with, and partially because I uninstalled a few hoping to resolve this issue. I checked for software updates but its up to date, so that's not it either.