Articles Tagged “Amazon”

Install Google Apps and the Android Market on Your Rooted Kindle Fire

by Edmund Apostol on Dec 05, 2011 2 Comments">2

Once you’re able to successfully root a Kindle Fire tablet, you can install Google apps and gain access to the Android Market from the device.

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How to Install Third-party Apps on Amazon Kindle Fire

by Joe Baquilta on Nov 30, 2011 4 Comments">4

Proud owners of the new Amazon Kindle Fire may now be busy playing with their new Android tablet right now. We can’t blame them. For sure, it will be irresistible to check out the device. If you have already checked out the new tablet, you may say that its user interface can be deceiving at times. Is this really Android? The UI of the Kindle Fire is indeed highly customized. The maker of the tablet designed the UI in such a way that it would look like an ebook reader and not just a typical Android tablet. But, behind that …

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How to Root the Amazon Kindle Fire

by Joe Baquilta on Nov 30, 2011 9 Comments">9

Bring out a new Android device to market, and you can be sure that a method to root it will also come out very shortly after. That was what happened to the Amazon Kindle Fire. Thanks to the Android community of developers and enthusiasts, the Amazon Kindle Fire can be rooted–and fairly easily, too. The rooting process for the Kindle Fire involves some command line typing, but not the complicated ones though. If you have tried installing a printer for your desktop, then this can be a similar thing. Read on to find out more about how to root your …

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Getting a Brand New Tablet for Cyber Monday? No Thanks

by Mike Andrei on Nov 26, 2011 10 Comments">10

I’ve turned more and more into a tablet user during these last months. Although I’ve got my first tablet around the same time last year, tablets began to “catch me” a bit later, perhaps after I got my iPad 2 and my Asus Transformer. I still have them both, use them almost daily and am overall satisfied with the experience, although both have their issues. Still, since a lot of friends and readers have asked me for advice on tablets they should get by the end of this year, during Black Friday yesterday, I took a couple of minutes hours …

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Is Amazon Making a Very Inexpensive Phone?

by Matthew Sabatini on Nov 23, 2011 0 Comments">0

After the release of the Amazon Kindle Fire Android tablet, rumors have already surfaced about Amazon creating a smart phone. It would of course be called the “Kindle Phone”, and is rumored to pack a Texas Instruments OMAP 4 processor and to be priced around $200 or less. Is it Possible? Of course, no one expected Amazon to create a tablet, let alone their own Android app store variation. However, now that they have gotten themselves into the game and have gotten so much attention, expansion is inevitable. Is it Probable? Yes, Allthingsd reports that “Based on our supply chain …

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Amazon Planning to Enter Smartphones Market, Seeks Foxconn Help

by Ken East on Nov 22, 2011 1 Comments">1

After Amazon’s successful penetration of the tablet computer market with its Kindle tablets, Amazon is up for another goal–to enter the smartphone market. Citing sources from Taiwan Economic News, engineering and electronics site EE Times reports that Amazon has asked Foxconn for help with entering the smartphone market next year. Foxconn manufactures electronic equipment and is one of the largest electronic device manufacturers with partner companies that include Apple, Cisco, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Nintendo, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Amazon. Amazon and Foxconn are reportedly forming a joint manufacturing company. The partnership between the two companies is for the purpose of …

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Bigger Kindle Fire Coming in Mid-2012

by Ken East on Nov 22, 2011 2 Comments">2

The seven-inch Amazon Kindle Fire will be getting a big brother in 2012. Amazon is said to be developing a Kindle Fire model with a much larger, 8.9-inch display. According to a DIGITIMES report, upstream supplier sources have mentioned that users can expect the new 8.9-inch version of the Amazon Kindle Fire to launch by the end of the second quarter in 2012. Amazon is said to have selected the 8.9-inch display for the current Kindle Fire’s big brother to take advantage of LG’s and Samsung’s promotion of 8.9-inch panels. Amazon reportedly wants to stay clear of the competition in …

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Tegra 3 Tablets to Drop Prices in 6 Months, Says NVIDIA CEO

by Alvin Ybañez on Nov 21, 2011 4 Comments">4

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told journalists recently that tablets sporting his company’s newest Tegra 3 system-on-a-chip will experience price drops within just six months, as he looks forward to NVIDIA innovations that will succeed Tegra 3. Current technology becomes old when newer technologies arrive, and when the newer technologies arrive, they also tend to be more expensive and the older technology often decreases its price. The same can be said of Tegra 3 tablets, whose prices are expected to drop to about US$300 within just a few months. Tegra 3’s flagship tablet is the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime, due …

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Amazon Kindle Fire Source Code Now Online

by Conan Hughes on Nov 17, 2011 1 Comments">1

In just a couple of days after the release of its highly anticipated Android tablet, Amazon has also released the source code for the Amazon Kindle Fire and is now available for download. With the Kindle Fire running Android under the hood, Amazon must comply with the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) licensing agreement to release its source code. The news may not be relevant to the most casual users, seeing that they probably will buy Kindle Fire as a reading tool and for other consumer uses that Amazon intended it for.Instead, it will be the developers and modding community …

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Netflix Shows Off New User Interface For Android Tablets

by Matthew Sabatini on Nov 16, 2011 2 Comments">2

Change is often thought of as a bad thing. However when it comes to new technology, change is one of the best experiences you can get. Furthermore, application updates are like Christmas presents to smartphone users. Netflix knows this and is constantly changing the UI (user interface) of all of their apps to keep their users coming back for more. And earlier today, they did just that.

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Survey: iPad Buyers Holding Off Purchases Because of Kindle Fire

by Brigitte Novabos on Nov 11, 2011 5 Comments">5

When the iPad was first introduced to the world, we were so amazed at how revolutionary it was we never thought anything else could beat it. It turns out that the iPad just might have met its match—the Amazon Kindle Fire. To be released on November 16, the Amazon Kindle Fire is proving to be a tough contender when paired up with other up-and-coming tablets in the market under the $200 budget such as the Nook Tablet, but to have the Amazon Kindle Fire lure potential iPad buyers off the Apple ship is not an easy feat. Recent research, however, …

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Amazon Cranks Up Kindle Fire Production Orders to 5 Million

by Alvin Ybañez on Nov 11, 2011 4 Comments">4

Owing to a huge count of preorders, Amazon has consequently increased its production orders for the Amazon Kindle Fire , expecting Kindle Fire sales to heat up further as the holiday season comes in. According to industry sources of DIGITIMES, Amazon is increasing its Kindle Fire orders to more than 5 million units to be sold before the year ends. The increase is reportedly due to massive preorders. Amazon has already raised its orders from 3.5 million to 4 million units during the middle of Q3 2011. Amazon believes that the demand for the Kindle Fire will rise further by …

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Amazon Kindle Ice Next in Line to Kindle Fire, Say Rumors

by Ken East on Nov 11, 2011 3 Comments">3

While the Amazon Kindle Fire is just getting wrapped up for its retail release by the end of the month, speculations are spreading about the Kindle Fire’s successor, another tablet dubbed as the Amazon Kindle Ice. The rumors about this device seemed to have blazed like wildfire because Amazon has made itself busy acquiring several icy domains. A report by Fusible.com found that Amazon bought over 500 kindle Fire and Amazon Silk domains last September 28, but someone was also doing the same thing on that very same day. Jeffrey Casserino, who is a resident of Syracuse, New York, also …

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire Surpasses the iPad in Demand

by Lucian Armasu on Nov 10, 2011 3 Comments">3

Just a week ago Apple was saying that Kindle Fire is no threat to them, but according to this survey and initial pre-orders for the Kindle Fire, I think it will be. The potential growth for tablets is pretty huge – maybe not as huge as the one for smartphones, where most phones will become a smartphone, so like over 5 billion people will need one, but it’s still pretty big. This means that Apple’s iPad would’ve had a lot of room to keep growing and dominating this market. But not anymore. Regular Android tablets have already started to put …

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Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire: Tough Choice!

by Lucian Armasu on Nov 07, 2011 4 Comments">4

I think our regular Android manufacturers missed a huge opportunity this year to sell as many units as possible by releasing not only $500 (or more) tablets but also tablets that come at half the price, while still delivering decent performance for most of the things you’d want to do on a tablet. This started becoming obvious with the launch of the Nook Color a year ago, when a lot of people bought them for $250 so they can put a custom Android ROM on it. And if that message that was sent by the market wasn’t clear enough, it …

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