If you've got your hands on a Kindle Fire and are having loads of fun playing around with it but would love to have the SwiftKey keyboard to replace the stock Fire issue, you're in luck. Any computer software or operating system is hackable, but because the Fire runs Android we already know how most everything works -- including the settings database. Add a few Android hackers, who...
Say, for some reason, you just got yourself a brand new Kindle Fire and for some reason don't want to run the custom launcher Amazon's whipped up. (And it's pretty darn good, actually.) Now that we've got proper ADB access, loading a third-party launcher is just a few clicks away. (Or you can install through a file explorer on the device, if you want.) We've got ADW.EX running with nary...
The Amazon Kindle Fire will be one of the hot items this holiday season, and it's poised to be one of the best selling tablets ever. How cool would it be to win one from us? You can do just that and get your hands on a Fire of your own, and it won't cost you a dime. Whether you want to use it as is and enjoy all that Amazon has to offer, or if you want to hack the daylights out of it...
Kindle Fire ships with your username and password already entered, ready to make purchases We interrupt our regularly scheduled Amazon Kindle Fire review for this timely editorial. I'm really not a tinfoil hat type -- maybe a little too much on the other side of that spectrum, actually. But I'm really not crazy about how Amazon's shipping the Kindle Fire. Here's how it works: You...
Amazon's Appstore for Android has received an update, just in time for the Kindle Fire's release next week. The update, which brings the app to version 2.0, is largely focused on UI improvements. The look and feel of the entire Appstore experience has shifted as the white backdrops that used to be ubiquitous have been changed to shades of gray. More settings have been added as well as...
Amazon this morning's offered up a list of apps that will be available on the Kindle Fire tablet when it launches next week. And among the usual suspects -- Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, etc. -- is a pretty big one name: Netflix. Not that Netflix isn't on just about every other Android device at this point, but it's a fairly big deal here because it marries Amazon's already excellent...
Android has grown to capture 27 percent of the tablet market, that just one year ago was 100 percent filled by Apple. With the launch of the original Galaxy Tab things have been on a slow uphill climb, but much like the smartphone space diversity and a much more open ecosystem will allow Android to grab a large portion of the pie, and draw manufacturers who can see the profit potential...
Microsoft and Quanta Computer have signed (what we presume is a giant stack of legal papers) an agreement that protects and licenses Quanta by providing "broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for Quanta’s tablets, smartphones and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome Platform". The full details of the agreement haven't been disclosed, and likely never will be...
KMLProxy in our forums brings up a good point, if you're looking at purchasing an Amazon Kindle Fire. You won't be able to easily transfer apps that you purchase in the Android Market to the Kindle Fire. That is, you won't be able to redownload them directly, because the Kindle Fire won't have the Android Market. That's not an insurmountable problem -- we've talked about how to pull the...
Amazon's big Kindle Fire announcement day has come and gone, and a lot of you may be scratching your head trying to figure out all the news that happened while you were stuck at work or school. We've taken the time to provide a handy set of questions and answers ourselves, and we think they would make a great starting point. Of course, you can (and should) dive into the discussion in...
Youtube link for mobile viewing What do you get when you take a traditional web browser, crunch it through some cloud servers, compress the data and make it more mobile friendly by sharing the load locally as well as in the back end? That's Amazon's Silk browser. Actually, it sounds a bit familiar, but it's going to get some prominent play on the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, which is...
The 7-inch Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, or e-reader (if you will) is the latest release from Amazon. It offers free data storage in the cloud and a new internet browser named Amazon Silk. The Kindle Fire's display is made of Corning's Gorilla Glass, and underneath the hood features a 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP processor and 8GB of onboard storage. Announced: Sep 28, 2011 Released: Nov 15,...
There it is, folks. The Amazon Kindle Fire. Looking a little more like an e-reader than a tablet -- though it certainly does resemble the BlackBerry PlayBook on which it's based -- the Kindle Fire's getting its official announcement this morning in New York. The 7-inch device will run a version of Android, but don't expect it to look or feel like a top-shelf tablet. Price, however, may...