As usual, Amazon is offering deep discounts on Fire tablets for the holiday shopping season. And as usual, some folks would like Amazon’s tablets better if they worked a bit more like other Android tablets. Amazon Fire tablets run a fork of Android called Fire OS. That means they have an Amazon-designed user interface and ship […]
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Daily Deals (9-27-2019)
Amazon charges $80 for a Fire HD 8 tablet with 16GB of storage, which isn’t a bad price at all. But you know what’s an even better price? Half price. Right now QVC is selling a Fire HD 8 tablet for $50. First-time customers can save another $10 when you use the coupon code TAKE10 […]
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Amazon Fire tablet hacks: Google Play, Root, Recovery, and ROMs
Amazon’s Fire tablets are arguably some of the best cheap tablets worth buying, thanks to a combination of decent displays, specs, and performance and low starting prices (which are even lower on Prime Day or during other sales). The Amazon Fire 7 has a list price of $50, but you can pick one up for […]
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Now you can install custom ROMs on the Amazon Fire HD 8 (2018)
After Amazon released an updated Fire HD 8 tablet last September, it didn’t take long for folks to figure out that you could install the Google Play Store on the 8 inch tablet. A few months later, folks figured out two methods for unlocking the bootloader and rooting the device (1)(2). While that theoretically opened […]
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Daily Deals (3-22-2019)
Amazon’s Fire tablets are some of the best cheap tablets around, with prices typically starting at $50. While their Fire OS software isn’t to everyone’s liking, the tablets have proven fairly hackable — you may be able to install the Google Play Store and/or root your tablet. Fire tablets make decent devices for watching videos, […]
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New Fire HD 8 bootloader unlock method doesn’t require opening the case
It’s been possible to unlock the bootloader and root the latest Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet since January. But up until recently the only known method for doing that involved prying open the tablet’s case, identifying points on the motherboard, and shorting them to enter bootrom mode. But now there’s an easier way. Xda-developers forum […]
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Daily Deals (2-01-2019)
Need to buy gifts for a set of triplets… or just want to pick up a 3-pack of tablets for your own use? Amazon is offering discounts when you buy 3 Fire 7 tablets, Fire HD 10 tablets, or the (newly rootable) Amazon Fire HD 8. Today’s roundup of tech deals also includes discounts on select Amazon […]
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Amazon Fire HD 8 (2018): You can root it and unlock the bootloader
Amazon’s 2018 Fire HD 8 tablet offers pretty good bang for the buck. The $80 tablet has an 8 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display, a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage plus a microSD card reader. You can pay a bit more for a 32GB model, or you […]
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Daily Deals (12-14-2018)
Amazon’s Fire HD 8 tablet features a 1280 x 800 pixel display, a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, at least 16GB of built-in storage, and a microSD card slot. With a list price of $80, it offers decent bang for the buck… but it’s an even better bargain when you can pick one up for $50. And […]
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Hacking Amazon’s Fire tablets (Black Friday 2018 edition)
Amazon’s Fire tablets already offer a lot of bang for the buck, with list prices starting as low as $50. But this week Amazon is offering deep discounts on most of its Fire tablet lineup as part of a Black Friday sale. Starting November 22nd you’ll be able to pick up a Fire 7 tablet for […]