The Amazon Kindle Fire should not be left in the control of your kids… unless you want them running up your credit card bill and don’t mind them viewing soft-core pornography. Ryan Kim of Gigaom made this point in a post about parental controls and the Kindle Fire. Imagine this: you pull out your Kindle [...]
While most indie developers are focused on doing things with the Kindle Fire that Jeff Bezos never intended, a few have turned their attention to the Kindle Touch. It’s not based on Android, but it can be rooted. Now someone has figured out how to do just that. Apparently it wasn’t that hard, since the [...]
Amazon is preparing an update for its recently released debut Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, that will bring performance updates to the device. According to Dieter Bohn of The Verge, a tipster to the site hinted that one such update will improve the performance of the Silk browser on the Kindle Fire, which was highly [...]
Barnes & Noble has shipped 1 million Nook Tablets so far. That’s a pretty impressive number, but that doesn’t mean that customers bought 1 million of them, but rather that Barnes & Noble received them from supplier Inventec, the same OEM that made the now defunct HP TouchPad. Unfortunately, that’s often the way these kinds [...]
Yesterday word broke that the Google was putting some Apps in the Android Market Place on sale for a dime. Yep, $.10. Not surprisingly Amazon followed suit today putting some Apps on sale for the same paltry dime. You can check out which ones at this link. Unfortunately, (unless I’m missing something) it’s nigh on [...]
Though the Kindle Fire was launched with its own proprietary user interface on top of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, that’s not stopping the developer community from finding alternative use and expand the tablet’s appeal beyond Amazon’s ecosystem. One developer, G1011999, was able to port Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich onto Amazon’s debut tablet and took video of [...]
This Saturday, December 10th Amazon will launch a new promotion, a promotion that very clearly has mom and pop stores in its cross hairs. The retailer is going to be offering up an additional 5% off of its prices when users use the company’s Price Check app. If you’ve never used Amazon’s Price Check app [...]
Users of the Amazon Kindle Fire reported in Amazon’s forums that they’ve been having problems with Wi-Fi connectivity issues. The issues could have something to do with the way the Fire uses the Silk browser, which Amazon touted as a revolutionary way to speed up Internet surfing. The browser, unfortunately, hasn’t lived up to the [...]
Lots of folks are picking up on a study that says users are having some “fat finger” difficulty with Touch on the Kindle Fire. All of the Apple lovers are saying this affirms Steve Jobs’ comments that Tablets in a 7 inch form factor just won’t work. Time may indeed prove Jobs correct, but quite [...]
While Amazon’s entry into the Android tablet market in the form of the Kindle Fire is garnering a lot of attention and sales, a new research study from Nielsen Norman Group doesn’t put the tablet in favorable light. Highlighting usability issues, a poor user experience, and problems with touch on the device’s seven-inch screen, Nielsen [...]
Those who love the Kindle Fire but want to surf the web or write emails in a language other than English have had to contend with the tablet’s word suggestion engine, and apparently it’s really annoying. Since there’s no way to turn it off, the next best solution is to switch to a keyboard for [...]
In an offer to owners of its e-reader hardware, Kobo is offering a free e-book download a month to avid readers. Users who purchase a Kobo e-reader tablet or E-Ink e-reader between November 24 through March 31, 2012 will be able to download an e-book a month gratis from Kobo starting January 2012. The selection, [...]
Uh oh, we might have a mess on our hands here. According to Android and Me, Amazon has begun canceling orders for the highly anticipated, Tegra 3-powered Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, a device that is going to be launching online on December 12th and in stores on December 19th. The reason for the cancellations? [...]
I love my new Kindle Fire and it seems I’m not alone with between 3 and 4 million Kindle Fires shipped already, according to Digitimes sources. The new Android based tablet from Amazon is expected to ship as many as 5 million Kindle Fire tablets through the holiday buying season and into January. The OEM [...]
Well now. Gadget owners love when it comes time for an update to be released. Usually there is some prep for it coming down the pipes to refresh (and hopefully make better) your device. Seldom have we seen an update sneak in the back door the way Amazon pushed v 6.2 to the Kindle Fire. [...]
We knew that Amazon’s $199 Android-powered tablet, the Kindle Fire, was selling well. After all, it has occupied the top spot at Amazon since before it was released and Amazon itself claimed that it sold more Kindle’s during this Black Friday than any Black Friday before it. And while we still don’t have official numbers, [...]
Every year about this time we see lots of news stories about retailers who are making an effort to combat customers’ “Wrap Rage.” Any geek worth his or her salt, and any consumer knows what this is about. Bubble plastic that is impossible to open without shedding some blood is the best example. Amazon made [...]
Amazon continues to be a hotbed of shopping deals as the Cyber Monday sales continue to roll out. Many of the best Cyber Monday 2011 deals at Amazon come in the form of limited time lightning deals that require speed and a watchful eye to purchase. These deep discounts can be found on the Amazon Cyber Monday deals page, [...]
Amazon.com apparently had a really good Black Friday as they’re crowing about it all over the news today. Apparently the company sold four times as many Kindle products this year over last year. This is not a big surprise given than there are four new Kindle products to sell: the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle [...]
Like Rovio with its Angry Birds franchise, Fruit Ninja is expanding its collection with a Puss in Boots partnership. The new Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots will be coming to Amazon Appstore for Android, a third-party Android app store, on Monday and Amazon will be running the title as part of its daily free app [...]
While spending Thanksgiving with family, my wife’s aunt asked a question regarding something I took for granted having to do with the location of all of her old Kindle books on the new Kindle Fire. She, like many new Fire owners, collected dozens of eBooks on her old black and white Kindle. When she ordered [...]
Our gift guides are chock full of awesome tech, gadgets, and accessories. And I poked through all of them to find the best products under $200. The Kindle Fire isn’t the only worthwhile gadget to be had at this price point. Whether the people on your list love media, want to organize a vast photo [...]
If you take your chances on Black Friday to brave the wild malls and shopping centers, then you’re indeed either braver or crazier than me. However, if you do so without these useful iPhone apps, then you’re probably just plain foolish. Here are the best apps to help you get through Black Friday to help [...]
The Amazon Kindle Touch improves upon the Kindle 4 in two very important ways, making it the best new e-Reader for a very attractive price (yes, even at $20 more than the Kindle 4). It has the best combination of features and price. Which makes it an even better e-ink e-reader than the Kindle 4, which I [...]
Following the launch and much anticipated 7-inch Android-based Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon is still on track to release larger tablet versions as well. In a move mirroring that of Samsung, which has a Galaxy Tab 7.0, 7.7, 8.9, and 10.1 tablet, Amazon is looking to expand its tablet portfolio with different and varying display sizes, [...]
What are the most important aspects of a mobile device? Mobility, of course. Speed, power, holdability? What about how well it can survive a drop? We all drop our gadgets every now and then. You’re not paying attention and it slide off the desk, you get butterfingers when carrying it to the couch, a small [...]
If you live in the United States and you’ve been waiting to get your hands on a Nokia N9 and its MeeGo software, you now have that chance. The device has shown up at Amazon.com, the USA version, with a price of $650. Obviously, that’s probably going to be too expensive for most of you, [...]
If you have been on the lookout for a new smartphone, Amazon Wireless has a deal you don’t want to miss. Today, new customers can purchase any smartphone sold on Amazon for just a penny. Yes, this includes the Droid RAZR, HTC Rezound and Samsung Galaxy S II. There are no iPhone 4S deals or [...]
Black Friday eReader deals are quite common this year, but make sure you do your homework before you buy an eBook reader on Black Friday. To help you sort out the good from the bad, we’ve rounded up our favorite Black Friday eReader deals on Kindles, Nooks and other brands, so you can get a [...]
The devs over at XDA Developer’s Forum posted a root method for the Kindle Fire within a day or two of its launch, but as we reported it breaks the Amazon Prime video service. I speculated that there’d be a fix soon, and apparently someone already found a workaround until the actually fix shows up. [...]
The folks at DirectFix.com have a teardown video on YouTube for the Kindle Fire. (Yes, another one.) If you’ve ever wanted to see the guts of a Fire (or the BlackBerry PlayBook, for that matter), check it out. They’ll also show you how to replace the screen and other components if you ever need to. [...]
Oh, my. Maybe I’m a sucker for Christmas. Although I find that hard to believe given how many Christmas plays and musicals I’ve spent many autumns directing. Or maybe it is just the fond memories I have of watching A Charlie Brown Christmas every year in my childhood (and a few since becoming an adult.) [...]
Earlier today, Citigroup’s research department concluded through supply channel checks that Amazon is likely going to be launching its own smartphone during the fourth quarter of 2012. They believe it will run Texas Instrument’s OMAP 4 processor and it will be manufactured by Hon Hai’s TMS business group, the same company that makes Amazon’s Kindle. Obviously, [...]
Now you can have it. Yep, one of the few things that was supposed to only be available on the Kindle Fire is not out there running free in the world and available to install on your Nook Touch. You know how to do that, right? How is this possible? Well, just like the Nook [...]
The Amazon Kindle Fire is already and will continue to be a much talked about device. My Kindle Fire arrived early and due to a busy schedule I have not had as much time as I would like to play with the device. But, I’ve had enough time in a hectic schedule to discover that [...]
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