The Amazon Kindle Fire HD  7 inch tablet comes with access to tens of thousands of apps from Amazon’s Appstore for Android. But there are more than 600,000 apps available in the Google Play Store for other Android phones or tablets. While Amazon’s tablet doesn’t come with access to the Play Store, it turns out you […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD dissected, proves (relatively) simple to fix
With a starting price of $199, it might be cheaper and easier to buy a new Kindle Fire HD 7 inch tablet if anything goes wrong on yours than it is to replace a broken touchscreen. But if you’re the sort of person that likes to fix things yourself, it looks like the Kindle Fire […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 tablet is now available
Amazon started taking orders for its new Kindle models last week. Now the Kindle Fire HD 7 is in stock, and customers who pre-ordered should start to receive their tablets today. The Kindle Fire HD 7″ tablet has a 1280 x 800 pixel display, a 1.2 GHz TI OMAP 4 dual core processor, 1GB of […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire tablets launch in Europe
Amazon isn’t just taking pre-orders for its new Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablets in the US. For the first time, the tablets are also available internationally. You can place orders with Amazon in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. The first two models to launch in those countries are the new Kindle […]
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Amazon’s new Kindle, Kindle Fire models up for order for $69 and up
Amazon is now taking orders on its new line of Kindle eReaders and tablets. Prices start at $69 for an eReader with an E Ink display, and $159 for an Android tablet with a full color display. All of those starting prices are for models with “special offers,” or ads on the home screen or […]
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Next-gen Kindle Fire: $159 for a speedier tablet
Amazon is doubling the amount of RAM in the entry-level Kindle Fire tablet, speeding up the processor, and dropping the price tag. Starting today you can order a 2nd generation Kindle Fire for $159, and it will ship starting September 14th. The new model has the same 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display as […]
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Amazon: Kindle Fire is “sold out”
Amazon is holding a press event next week to launch something. While the company still hasn’t said what they’re introducing, today the company offered a big hint. Amazon sent out a press release letting us know that the Amazon Kindle Fire is “sold out.” The company says the Kindle has been its best-selling product for […]
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Amazon holding event Sept 6th, new Kindles on the way?
Amazon has scheduled a press conference for September 6th, where the company will announce… something. The invitations don’t provide many details aside from the date and location, but Amazon tends to save these press events for the introduction of new hardware such as Kindle or Kindle Fire tablets and eBook readers. While last year’s Kindle […]
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Is this Amazon’s next Kindle Fire?
Amazon launched the Kindle Fire 7 inch Android tablet 10 months ago, at a time when a $199 tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a TI OMAP 4 dual core processor was practically unheard of. A lot’s changed since then, and word on the street is that Amazon is getting […]
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Hashcode’s Jelly Bean update for the Kindle Fire: Now with Netflix
Want to run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on an Amazon Kindle Fire? You can. It’s an unofficial software update that’s not supported by Amazon — but once you’ve applied the update you can install the Amazon Kindle, MP3, and Appstore apps and use them alongside Google apps such as the Play Store, Gmail, and Google […]