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Amazon shipping Kindle Fire HD 8.9” today

By Dave LeClair
on 15 Nov, 2012

Amazon has just started shipping the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch today. If you've been waiting to get yours, you shall not have to wait much longer, as it should be in your hands within the next couple of days. If you haven't ordered one, you can do so on Amazon. However, if you are waiting for the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch with 4G, you are going to have to wait until next week.

Will it Blend presents Nexus 7 vs iPad mini vs Kindle Fire HD

By Cory Gunther
on 7 Nov, 2012

In the usual BlendTec fashion today we have a treat for all of you happy tablet users. The folks from Will it Blend? have released an epic video showing off the Google Nexus 7 vs Apple's iPad mini and the Kindle Fire HD. In their usual "comparison video" they show off just how well devices handle (or don't handle) getting tossed into one of their popular blenders.

Amazon releases Send to Kindle for Firefox

By Cory Gunther
on 6 Nov, 2012

The folks from Amazon have continued to give users access to content on their Kindle devices in a quick and seamless manor, and today have announced one more additional to their "Send to" offering. It's called Send to Kindle for Firefox and enables a one-click method to easily send your favorite pages and more right to your Kindle of choice.

Amazon Game Studio releases Air Patriots, their first Android game

By Cory Gunther
on 1 Nov, 2012

Today the folks from Amazon released their first game built in-house for Android, iOS, and all their Kindle Fire tablets. The brand new game is called Air Patriots and appears to be quite fun. Blending games like Air Control and airplane games with the popular tower defense model. Amazon calls this a "new kind of tower defense game." Read on for more details.

Amazon calls Kindle Fire HD a “best-seller” and announces a new OTA update to celebrate

By Dave LeClair
on 23 Oct, 2012

Amazon has recently described the Kindle Fire HD as the "#1 best-selling product across all of Amazon worldwide." That's some pretty serious sales if accurate. Of course, since Amazon almost never releases actual sales figures when they talk about products a little skepticism is needed. Maybe it is the best-selling thing on Amazon ever, or maybe they mean it's the best-seller this week. Without numbers it's hard to be sure.

Kindle Fire HD 7 can now be rooted

By Craig Lloyd
on 19 Sep, 2012

We reported a couple days ago that Amazon locked down the new Kindle Fire HD tablets pretty tightly, making it more difficult to find a workaround for a successful root. However, good news has arrived and it looks like a successful workaround has been established, thanks to some hard-working folks.

New Kindle Fire devices are locked up tight, root methods may be difficult

By Craig Lloyd
on 17 Sep, 2012

Last week, Amazon announced a slew of new Kindle devices, including the all new Ice Cream Sandwich-equipped Kindle Fire HD. A lot of folks are really excited to get their hands on one, but developers and rooters alike may not be too happy when they set their eyes on the new device. It turns out that Amazon locked up the bootloaders of their 2nd-generation Kindle Fires using the same techniques that are used on most "high-security" devices.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD vs Google Nexus 7

By Cory Gunther
on 7 Sep, 2012

Yesterday Amazon announced their new Kindle Fire HD tablets, and while the 8.9-inch model might have stolen the show it's their smaller 7-inch model that could be the big hit. Amazon's new 7-inch Kindle Fire HD packs a pretty impressive spec sheet and a great price to match it. But is that enough for it to rival the Nexus 7?

Kindle Fire HD tablets will be ad supported – but optional

By Cory Gunther
on 7 Sep, 2012

A lot of talk has appeared over the past 24 hours regarding Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablets being ad supported or "subsidized" with special offers appearing on the lockscreen and homescreen, but lets clear some of the rumors up. Since we were there live we can agree that yes these were indeed included, but Amazon has confirmed they'll be optional.

Amazon confirms ICS is running the Kindle Fire HD

By Cory Gunther
on 6 Sep, 2012

When Amazon took the stage to announce their slew of new Android tablets today we had a feeling they'd leave out any details regarding the OS, and that is exactly what they did. The new Kindle Fire HD tablets have a slightly improved interface that is super smooth and they've confirmed Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is under the hood.