Amazon Kindle Fire hack allows installing Google apps, Nook Tablet can get the Amazon Appstore
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Thank you for providing an interesting topic here. For thousands of customers, the Kindle Fire has established a way to get a tablet computer without spending almost $500. The promise of a fully functional Android tablet for an extremely low cost, though, has met with the facts of a brand name tablet. The Kindle Fire system was, at some point, locked down to allow only Amazon applications. However, changes set in. Have you heard the latest about Kindle Fire? The other day, I came across an article entitled "Amazon Kindle Fire updates to allow competing e-reader apps". Yes, you read it right! The latest update to the Amazon Fire operating system allows for a bit more openness in the operating system. This is awesome, don't you think?
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The Amazon Kindle Fire shocked us with its $199 price tag – after all, that's more than twice cheaper than the iPad, but with the lower price you'd have to compromise. The Kindle Fire features a dual-core processor, but still can't match in the spec race, but what could be more troubling for some – it doesn't have core apps like the Android Market with its hundreds of thousands of apps, and Google's suite of applications including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Talk and Books among others.
But after all, the Kindle Fire does run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, albeit a heavily skinned version, so it should be able of running those applications. And it does – you'll just need to spend some time rooting th... »read more
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