Amazon / Utilities / MY DEVICE INFO 2018
REVIEW
My Device Info 2018 tells you what your Fire tablet is. Not much else.
A free, single-purpose spec reader from an indie developer that still does its one job — and still wears its 2018 release year in the name eight years later.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Every app store has a long shelf of single-purpose utilities with a year baked into the name — backup tools from 2014, file managers from 2016, device-info readers from 2018. Most of them stopped getting updates the year after release. A few kept working anyway, because the job they do is narrow enough that the platform never broke them.
My Device Info 2018 is one of the latter. The Fire OS APIs it reads from haven’t meaningfully changed in eight years, so the app keeps surfacing the right values on a 2024 Fire HD 10 the same way it did on a 2018 Fire 7. The cost of that stability is that the app also still looks and behaves like 2018 — same flat list, same lack of export, same single banner ad along the bottom.
For a free utility from an indie shop that you’ll open three times in the life of a tablet, that’s a fair deal. Just don’t expect it to grow.
It does what it says, which is more than most utilities with a year in the title can claim eight years later.
FEATURES
My Device Info 2018 is a single-screen reference utility. Open it on a Fire tablet and you get a scrollable list of the hardware and OS facts the system already knows about itself: model name, manufacturer, board, brand, Fire OS / Android version, kernel build, API level, screen resolution and density, total and available RAM, processor identifier, and the IMEI / serial-style identifiers the platform exposes to apps.
Categorisation is a flat list. There are no tabs for Hardware vs OS vs Network vs Sensors — every field sits in the same vertical scroll, with bold labels and plain values. Tap-and-hold to copy individual fields is supported on most of them; bulk export to a text file or a share sheet is not.
Sensors, battery health detail, CPU governor data, and per-core frequency — the things power-user device-info apps on Google Play surface — are absent. This is the basics, presented plainly, with a single ad banner at the bottom of free Amazon-store builds.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The app is honest about its scope and free of the upsell theatre that plagues this category on other stores. There is no pro tier dangling behind a paywall, no benchmark-suite cross-sell, no telemetry permission requests that don't match the function. It asks for nothing, it reports what the OS will tell it, and the numbers match what you'd see in Fire OS Settings if you knew where to look.
For the actual reason most people install something like this — confirming a model number before buying a case, or checking how much RAM a hand-me-down Fire HD 8 actually has — it works on the first tap.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The "2018" in the name has aged into a liability. The UI uses the system default typography, no dark mode, no tablet-optimised layout, no landscape adaptation. On a Fire HD 10 it renders as a stretched phone screen with generous unused margins. The icon is a stock cog. The screenshots in the store listing are from a pre-Fire-OS-7 era.
Export is the single most missed feature. Reading 40 fields off a screen and typing them into an email to a support rep is the use case this app should own, and instead each field has to be long-pressed and copied one at a time. A "share full report as text" button would close most of the gap.
CONCLUSION
Install it if you need to look up your Fire tablet's exact model or RAM and don't want to fish through Settings. Uninstall it after, or leave it taking up six megabytes — either is fine. It does what it says, which is more than most utilities with a year in the title can claim eight years later.