Say you’re the guy who runs the largest retail website in the United States… which also happens to make and sell a line of eReaders and tablets. And say you also happened to buy a major newspaper a little while ago? Maybe you’d find some synergies in an effort to help make the newspaper profitable […]
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Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 gets a speed boost, better audio
Amazon is giving its most powerful tablet a spec bump. The new Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 still has a 2560 x 1600 pixel display, but Amazon has replaced the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU from last year’s model with a faster Snapdragon 805 chip. The company says the new model offers up to 70 percent […]
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Now you can root the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX tablets
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX 7 and 8.9 inch tablets ship with a custom version of Android 4.2 called Fire OS. It includes Amazon’s custom user interface for interacting with books, media, and apps and it’s tightly tied to Amazon’s app and digital music, movie, and book stores. If you want to change the way the […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 now shipping for $379 and up
Amazon’s 8.9 inch tablet with a 2560 x 1600 pixel display is now shipping. The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 has a great display, a speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, 2GB Of RAM, at least 16GB of storage, and a pretty svelte design: It measures 0.31 inches thick and weighs just over 13 ounces. But […]
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Running Google Apps on the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX (Gmail, Play Music, etc)
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX 7 and HDX 8.9 tablets have high-resolution displays, fast processors, and tight integration with Amazon’s app, music, book, and video stores. But they also let you side-load third party apps that don’t come from the Amazon Appstore, and Android Cowboy has figured out how to use that feature to give Amazon’s […]
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Amazon launches Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 with 2560 x 1600px display
Amazon’s new 8.9 inch tablet features a higher-resolution display, a faster processor, and longer battery life than last year’s model. The new Kindle HDX 8.9 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, features a 2560 x 1600 pixel display, and offers up to 12 hours of battery life with mixed-use, or 18 hours […]