It continues to be a good week to pick up an Android tablet from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Not only will B&N’s deep discounts of up to $90 off on the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ continue through Mother’s Day, but Amazon is knocking $20 off the price of its Kindle Fire HD for the next few days. Or…
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The Amazon Kindle Fire 2 may have a starting price of just $159, but if you don’t need the slightly faster processor, twice the RAM, or Bluetooth, you can get last year’s model for less than half the price. Best Buy is selling refurbished 1st generation Kindle Fire tablets today for $100. And CNET has a coupon that lets you…
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets are already among the most affordable Android tablets on the market in the US, with prices for a new Kindle Fire 2 starting at $159. But TechCrunch is reporting that prices could drop a whole lot lower. According to TechCrunch, a $99 Kindle Fire HD could be on the way. Update: Amazon tells Slashgear it’s not…
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets are among the cheapest decent tablets you can buy. That’s because Amazon sells the devices for about what it costs to make them, and hopes to make money by selling books, music, movies, and apps — and by locking customers into the Amazon ecosystem. Starting in May, Amazon will have a new way to do that:…
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Amazon is running sales on Kindle devices in advance of Valentine’s Day. You can pick up a Kindle eReader in Europe for €59 (about €20 off the regular price) or in the UK for £59 (about £10 off). That deal isn’t available in the US, but if you’re in the states you can save up to $50 on a Kindle Fire HD tablet. Amazon’s…
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Amazon may not be selling first-generation Kindle Fire tablets anymore, but the 2011 model can do almost everything the newer Kindle Fire 2 can… and if you’re bargain hunting, you can pick one up for a lot cheaper. Best Buy is offering refurbished Kindle Fire tablets for $85 at the moment. That’s not a bad price for a tablet with…
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Ivona Software offers a range of text-to-speech software for PCs and mobile devices. The company currently offers 44 different voices in 17 languages, and they pretty much all sound better than the default voice that reads you driving directions or answers your questions on your smartphone. Amazon has been using Ivona voices to power text-to-speech on the latest Kindle Fire…
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The first generation Amazon Kindle Fire may be well over a year old at this point, but it’s still a pretty good little tablet, featuring a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, a TI OMAP 4 dual core processor, 512MB of RAM, and Amazon’s custom version of Android 2.3 It’s also a pretty hacker-friendly device, and we’ve seen unofficially…
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Amazon may not be selling first-generation Kindle Fire tablets anymore (or offering significant software updates for them), but that doesn’t mean you can’t teach an old tablet new tricks. Developer Hashcode has released a custom ROM for the Kindle Fire that lets you run Google Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on Amazon’s first tablet. In other words, you can practically turn…
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Amazon’s latest software update for the Kindle Fire HD add support for the company’s new “Kindle Free Time Unlimited” subscription service for kid-friendly books, movies, and apps. But it turns out that’s not the only new feature the update brings. Amazon is also adding the Swype keyboard to the latest Kindle Fire tablets, and offering a camera app for models…
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Amazon is launching a new subscription service that offers up a range of kid-friendly content including apps, games, books, and movies and TV shows for Kindle Fire tablet users. Kindle Free Time Unlimited features content designed for kids between 3 and 8 years old, and it costs $2.99 per month for Amazon Prime members of $4.99 per month for anyone…
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Amazon had a good weekend. The company says Cyber Monday 2012 was the best day ever for Kindle sales around the world, fueled by the company’s offer of a Kindle Fire 2. In fact, Amazon says it sold twice as many Kindles this weekend as it did between Black Friday and Cyber Monday last year. What Amazon still isn’t providing…
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Amazon’s latest Kindle Fire tablets including the Kindle Fire 2 and Kindle Fire HD 7 and 8.9 inch tablets have locked bootloaders. That probably doesn’t matter much if you plan to just run the operating system that came with your tablet. But it causes a bit of a headache for folks that want to load custom firmware. Developer Hashcode has…
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Amazon has been working to expand its Kindle business around the globe, and the latest stop is Japan. The company has announced that the Kindle Store is now open in Japan and the Kindle Fire, Kindle HD, and Kindle Paperwhite are all up for pre-order. Amazon’s 7 inch Android tablets will ship in Japan starting on December 19th. The Kindle…
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Customers who pre-ordered Amazon’s 2nd generation Kindle Fire or the 7 inch kindle Fire HD are just starting to receive their tablets. But Amazon has already pushed out the first software updates for these tablets. Amazon doesn’t spell out the features included in the software updates, but they’re design to “optimize … performance and functionality.” It’s also possible that these…
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