Amazon Mayday delivers Bezos’ promise, avoids Kindle Fire meltdown

Amazon’s Mayday system for the Kindle Fire HDX, putting a live customer services assistant on the screen of the Android-based tablet, saw the retailer beat its self-imposed time-to-answer target, though … Continue reading

You Can Get a Kindle Fire HDX on a Four-Part Amazon Instalment Plan

You Can Get a Kindle Fire HDX on a Four-Part Amazon Instalment Plan

If you’ve been trying to work out how you might pay for a new Kindle Fire, Amazon might be able to help: it’s pushing a four-part instalment plan for its HDX line.

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Amazon Kindle FreeTime upgrade adds educational goals

Amazon announced a new upgrade is coming to the Kindle FreeTime software ahead of Christmas. The Kindle FreeTime software is something that Amazon offers that allows parents to control how much time their child can spend on their Kindle tablet doing specific things. The FreeTime software can limit the overall time spent on the tablet, […]

Thanks to an Amazon Gold Box deal, you can get the Kindle Fire HDX–a delightful little tablet–for

Thanks to an Amazon Gold Box deal, you can get the Kindle Fire HDX—a delightful little tabletfor just $184 instead of the normal $220. Today only! [Amazon]

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Survey: Amazon Kindle Fire Preferred Over Tablets With Google Play For Gaming

Survey: Amazon Kindle Fire Preferred Over Tablets With Google Play For GamingThe Amazon Kindle Fire is a platform that is also able to handle games with aplomb, as we have read about how Assassin’s Creed: Pirates was just released on it. If you have missed out on the Cyber Monday deals for the Kindle Fire, that would be a damper, especially after you read about this survey from the App Annie & IDC Portable Gaming Report for Q3 2013, which claims that mobile gamers have a softer spot for Kindle Fire tablets when it comes to gaming compared to Android-powered tablets that have Google Play services.

This particular survey saw 1,117 respondents take part, and of course, the unsurprising bit of this survey points to iOS as the platform of choice for the majority when it comes to mobile gaming, which comprises of approximately 35% of the respondents. The Apple iPad also happened to be the leader among tablets, sporting around 17% of respondents. As for the Kindle Fire, it picked up about 12% of the popular vote, pushing it to 2nd place and placing it furlongs away from Android-powered tablets that took up approximately 5% of the vote. So, do you look at the Amazon Kindle Fire in a different light now after this bit of news?

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    If you buy a Kindle Fire HDX this week through smile.amazon.com, Amazon will donate $20 to the chari

    If you buy a Kindle Fire HDX this week through smile.amazon.com, Amazon will donate $20 to the charity of your choice instead of the standard 0.5 percent. A nice little bonus for everyone involved.

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    Amazon brings Instant Video to Japan, offers over 26,000 movies and TV shows

    Folks in the Land of the Rising Sun will be pleased to know that there’s now another option where they can rent or buy movies and TV shows. Today, Amazon announced the arrival of its Instant Video service in Japan, bringing with it a selection of more than 26,000 series and films from local and international studios — such as Shochiku, Toho, TV Asahi, TBS and Warner Bros., to mention a few. Of course, this means viewers will have access to Amazon Instant Video on a number of different platforms, including PCs and the company’s Kindle Fire line of tablets. So what are you waiting for? Start building out your very own Watchlist right about now — and we’d definitely recommend placing Pacific Rim in there.

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    Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Tablets

    Welcome to Engadget’s holiday gift guide! Head back to our hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month.

    Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide 2013 Tablets

    Tablets are right up there with 3D-enabled 4K TVs in terms of gift appeal; no one can resist firing them up the moment they’ve been unwrapped. Maybe it’s their super-thin form factors; maybe it’s because they make great couch companions; or maybe it’s because they’re just plain fun. Whether it’s an Android, Windows 8.1 or iOS slate you’re shopping for, you’ll find suitable picks across all budgets below.

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    Original Kindle Fire Receives Unofficial Android 4.4 KitKat Update

    Original Kindle Fire Receives Unofficial Android 4.4 KitKat UpdateAmazon has already started to ship its most recent generation of Kindle Fire tablets recently, so the question that begs to be asked is this – what would happen to the original Kindle Fire? Does it still have any kind of mileage left underneath the hood in order to be worth using even until now since its launch in 2011? Apparently so, as this 7” tablet with a 1,024 x 600 resolution IPS display has been hacked to be able to run on an unofficial release of Android 4.4 KitKat, the most recent mobile operating system version from Google. Do bear in mind that this 2011 tablet chugs along with just 512MB RAM and 8GB of internal memory, and if you are curious in picking one up for yourself, a used or pre-loved model will cost you under a Benjamin easily if you search for it in the correct places.

    Originally shipped with Amazon’s Fire OS, which in turn happens to be based on Android, the Kindle Fire was hacked to run on the likes of CyanogenMod and different Android ROMs since it was launched. Now, it is even capable of running the unofficial Android 4.4 KitKat ROM on it, now how about that? It is more or less a customized version of CM11 Alpha, except that it has been specially compiled so that it will be able to run on Amazon’s tablet. Not all is smooth sailing though, so do expect a number of graphical glitches, while the stock web browser has some rather questionable performance. Treat it as a work in progress, and you will be happy.

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    Amazon Rolls Out Kindle Fire OS 3.1 With BYOD Support, More

    Amazon Rolls Out Kindle Fire OS 3.1 With BYOD Support, More

    Amazon released its latest Kindle Fire just last week called the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, which includes a neat feature that allows its users to chat with a member of the company’s live support team through a “Mayday” button. As such, Amazon has rolled out an update to its tablet software that was specifically designed for its latest tablets. (more…)

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