Barnes & Noble is fighting back against the encroachment on the low-cost tablet market they carved out with the Nook Color and Nook Tablet that has seen strong challenges from the likes of the Kindle Fire HD and Google’s Nexus 7. This holiday season they’re introducing the next generation of reader’s tablet: the 7-inch Nook […]
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Android 4.0 for the Kindle Fire: Now with working audio
Developer JackpotClavin has released a new build of CyanogenMod 9 for the Amazon Kindle Fire. The latest version of Android 4.0 for the tablet includes one major update: audio now works properly. Update 1/31/2012: There’s an even newer build that includes several new bug fixes and additional features. When the first build was released in late […]
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How to install Android 4.0 on the Kindle Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EVfKBc5bVc An early build of Google Android 4.0 is now available for the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. If you didn’t get the picture from our recent video, it’s still very much a work in progress. While developers have solved a bug affecting the “sdcard” portion of the device, there are still audio, video, and application […]
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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich coming to the Kindle Fire (unofficially)
Sure, installing CyanogenMod 7 on an Amazon Kindle Fire is cool and all. But xda-developers forum member x1011999 decided to skip Android 2.3 Gingerbread and port Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to run on Amazon’s $199 tablet. He’s already got Android 4.0 booting on the tablet. Touch input works, as does hardware graphics acceleration. […]