I picked up a first-generation Amazon Kindle Fire tablet in 2011 and performed a bunch of experiments on it. But I never really used it all that much as a tablet… so eventually I loaded CyanogenMod on it, installed TuneIn Radio, 1Weather, and set it up as an alarm clock in my bedroom. It was […]
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Next-gen Amazon Kindle Fire to sport Snapdragon 805 power?
Amazon’s Fire Phone may have just begun shipping, but there’s a good chance the company is already getting ready to launch its next device. It’s been nearly a year since the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX line of tablets hit the streets, and if leaked benchmarks are anything to go by, it looks like a next-generation Fire […]
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Amazon Appstore now has 240 thousand apps
Amazon says there are nearly 3 times as many apps available for download from the Amazon Appstore as there were a year ago. Folks with a Kindle Fire tablet now have access to 240 thousand apps. That’s still far less than the million or so apps available for other Android devices from the Google Play […]
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Original Kindle Fire gets an (unofficial) Android 4.4 KitKat update
Amazon may be busy selling its third-generation of Kindle Fire tablets this fall, but the original Kindle Fire which was launched in 2011 still has its charms. The tablet has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel IPS display, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage — and if you don’t already have one, you […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7 review roundup
Amazon is bringing 3 new tablets to market this fall, but while the new Kindle Fire HD is remarkable for its low starting price of $139, and the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is notable for its high-resolution, 2560 x 1600 pixel display, it’s the Kindle Fire HDX 7Â which is kind of the flagship device. It’ […]
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Images of next-gen Kindle Fire HD leaked
Clues about Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire HD refresh — like its 1080P display — have already trickled out. Now, there’s a set of leaked images to go along with the hardware specs. BGR got its hands on a handful of photos of the new 7-inch model, and its sources report that the 8.9-inch version is […]
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CyanogenMod 10.2 brings Android 4.3 to aging Kindle Fire, NOOK Tablet
It’s been nearly two years since Amazon released the original Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble launched its NOOK Tablet (which was technically the company’s second tablet). While each company offers limited updates and support for those aging devices, the hardware’s still pretty useful — especially thanks to independent developers who continue to bring Google’s […]
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Kindle Fire refresh to bring higher-res screens to Amazon’s tablets?
Amazon will likely launch new Kindle Fire tablets this fall: the company tends to release new eReader and tablet hardware every year. But while Amazon isn’t exactly saying what new features its next-gen tablets will have, the folks at BGR seem to think they have a good idea. Sources tell them that Amazon will launch […]
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Install Android 4.2 on the original Amazon Kindle Fire
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 […]
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Kindle Fire HD 8.9 ROM ported to the Samsung Nexus S smartphone
Developers have been porting custom firmware such as CyanogenMod and AOKP to run on Amazon Kindle Fire tablets since the first models hit the streets last year. The latest Kindle tablets have been a tougher nut to crack thanks to their locked bootloaders. But one developer has decided to work in the other direction: By […]