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Running Native Code on Kindle Fire x86 System Images
If your app uses native code through the Android NDK and you want to run the app on a beta x86 system image for the Kindle Fire emulator, the native libraries used by your app need to be recompiled for x86.
Amazon cuts Kindle Fire HD prices by as much as $100
For tablets, 2013 is the year of small form factors -- and, presumably, lower prices. Amazon isn't waiting to see, and that's a good strategy considering Kindle HD might not be the device Goldilocks is searching for. Unlike the fairy tale where one is too big or two small, Amazon's tablet may not be just right. Proactive price reduction could change that.
Nightly builds of CyanogenMod 10.1 for the Kindle Fire 2
Amazon's Kindle Fire 2 is one of the cheapest Android tablets around (if you're looking for a model with decent build quality and performance, anyway). But the $159 tablet runs Amazon's custom version of Android — which means you're stuck with Amazon's app store and user interface... unless you replace the software with something else.
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.
When your best just isn't good enough: the Kindle Fire HD
Amazon landed the first real volley in the 7-inch Android device market. Sure, the initial Kindle Fire was rough around the edges, but its shockingly low $199 price tag and integration with Amazon's services won over a few (million) consumers. Amazon sold tons of Kindle Fires in December 2011, and it wasn't long before the device held the top spot on the Android hardware charts.
Testing: Amazon Kindle Fire HD vs. Google Nexus 7
If there's one thing the excellent Nexus 7 tablet has reaffirmed, it's that the 7-inch (screen) tablet is anything but dead on arrival. This baby bear of tablet form factors (not too big to hold with one hand, not too small to make it redundant alongside smartphones) can be ideal for comfortably reading books, browsing the web, and watching video for long periods of time without straining your arm or wrist.
How to Root the Amazon Kindle Fire HD Tablet
Major thanks to Sparkym3 for coming up with this exploit, and to Justin Case & Hashcode for helping do this on my tablet today.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD has a locked bootloader
Shortly after the first Amazon Kindle tablet was released in November, 2011, hackers rooted the tablet and then started installing custom firmware replacing Amazon's firmware with other versions of Android. Now that the 2nd generation Kindle Fire and the Kindle Fire HD are shipping, hackers are finding it a slightly tougher nut to crack.
Kindle Fire HD 7 unboxing and initial impressions
UPS just dropped off our Amazon Kindle Fire HD, and we wanted to share a look at the first new Kindle to be released. It's a 7-inch tablet that sort of runs Android -- Amazon has forked off the stock Ice Cream Sandwich build and made it their own, never once mentioning the word Android on the device or packaging. The Fire HD 7 (my new name for it) comes with 16 or 32GB of storage (we grabbed the 16) and features a TI OMAP 4460 under a 7-inch 1280x800 screen.
Kindle Fire HD review: A big improvement from Amazon
The 7-inch Amazon Kindle Fire HD goes far to correct many of the issues that plagued Amazon's first foray into tablets nearly a year ago. The Fire HD also introduces several tech enhancements over competing tablets, and while in the end the Kindle Fire HD falls short of Amazon's goal of being the best tablet at any price, it does excel on many metrics—and at $199 for the 16GB version and $249 for the 32GB version, it delivers a strong, value-priced experience that's optimized for consuming stuff from Amazon.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD review (7-inch)
It was 10 months ago that we had a doppelgänger in our midst. Amazon unleashed the Kindle Fire to the world and we spent much of the beginning of our review comparing and contrasting it to the (even then a bit long-in-the-tooth) BlackBerry PlayBook. Now, finally, we can stop making that comparison -- at least for this, Amazon's current top-shelf tablet.
For Amazon’s Tablet, the Second Time’s a Charm
When the Kindle Fire first arrived last September, it was in a class all its own. There were plenty of other 7-inch tablets running Android, but none of them were as successful. Sure, Amazon's tablet did most of the same things as competing offerings. Some of those things it did ably, some it did sloppily — but it did them all for $200, less than half the price of the cheapest iPad.
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