Kindle fire

Amazon has given its Silk browser for Kindle Fire a massive UI overhaul: it’s now neater and easier to navigate.

Report: The Cheap Kindle Fire to Be Replaced by Cheaper Fire HD

The Kindle Fire HD is the Amazon tablet for most people. Last year, it was just $40 more than the improved-but-uh-why-would-you-buy-this-again second gen Kindle Fire 2. BGR has an unconfirmed report, though, that last year’s Fire HD is this year’s Fire is very confusing for everyone, probably. There are already reports of the new Fire…

Report: Amazon’s Tablets Will Get Sharper Displays and a New Design

BGR claims it’s got exclusive details about the Amazon Kindle Fire tablets that will be released this fall. It’s more or less what we could expect from a yearly iteration of a tablet. Here’s the skinny. First up, the basic seven-inch Kindle Fire will get a display spec bump from a 1,024 x 600 screen…

Want Vine on your Kindle Fire? Well now you can have it. Enjoy!

Amazon Adds X-Ray to TV Shows To Tell You What You’re Watching While You Watch It

Amazon X-ray—the Kindle Fire feature that knows everything piece of information about a movie you’re watching while you watch it—is expanding to TV shows. https://gizmodo.com/amazons-x-ray-for-movies-knows-what-youre-watching-and-5941067 The service is pretty awesome and it keeps you from wondering who that actor is on the screen or what you’ve seen him in before. X-Ray slurps intel from Amazon-owned…

Google just redesigned its mobile Gmail web apps for Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, and BlackBerry. Lookin’ fresh.

11 Apps to Put Your Musical Taste Back on the Right Track

Most people probably remember having a song, album, or band change our lives. It’s a fairly common experience, even for those unfortunate beings who don’t live and breathe music. It’s a good thing to have happen to you (unless you’ve become too obsessed). Still, anyone can get bored of the music they already know, or…

Turns Out That $100 Acer Tablet Is Actually $130

A few weeks ago, reports trickled down from the mount that Acer was prepping a $100 7-inch tablet with specs that were juuuussssssst decent enough to be usable. The Iconia B1-A71 seems to fit the bill. Except, well, for the bill. https://gizmodo.com/you-wont-be-able-to-buy-the-first-decent-100-tablet-5970992 The Iconia B1-A71 has a 1.2GHz processor, a 1024×600 display, 8GB of storage,…

Every Kindle Fire Is on Sale Today—If You’re a Mom

On Monday, Amazon slashed prices on its 8.9-inch Kindle Fire tablets. If you missed that sale, you’re in luck; it’s back today, and this time applies to all Kindle Fire models. Oh, except this time you’ve got to be a mom. https://gizmodo.com/amazons-got-50-off-every-8-9-inch-kindle-fire-hd-today-5967084 The sale, limited to Amazon Mom members who also have Amazon Prime, includes…

Is Amazon’s 8.9-Inch Kindle Fire HD a Flop?

You’ve probably heard by now that Amazon’s offering fifty bucks off every 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD. But while that’s great news for you, it hints at disappointing early days for Amazon’s big-boy tablet. Is the 8.9-inch Fire HD dying on the vine? https://gizmodo.com/amazons-got-50-off-every-8-9-inch-kindle-fire-hd-today-5967084 It would seem unlikely at first; Amazon recently crowed that it had…

Amazon’s Got $50 Off Every 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD Today (If You’re Quick)

Amazon’s Deal of the Day is a belter: its already competitively priced 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD can be had for $50 less than the usual selling price. Does that mean sales have been slower than expected? Who cares! It’s cheap tabletry for you and yours. The sale applies to all of Amazon’s larger Kindle Fires…

Amazon’s New $3 Kid-Friendly Subscription Service

Amazon’s just launched Free Time Unlimited for its range of Kindle Fire tablets. It offers unlimited access to age-restricted movies, games and books for kids, for $3 a month. Essentially a subscription service for children, the service lets you tell Amazon your offspring’s gender and age, and then a custom library of books, movies, apps…

Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Review: Good News and Bad News

Comfort. That’s what the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 has over everything else. It’s by far the most comfortable tablet to hold, and to read and watch movies on. But to be the full-fledged iPad and Nexus competitor we’re hoping for, it needs to be more than just another pretty face. Why It Matters It costs…

Kindle Fire HD 8.9-Inch First Impressions: Is This the Comfiest Big Tablet?

The Kindle Fire 8.9 just showed up on our doorstep. It looks as lovely as we remember it. And instead of banging out a half-baked review in a day or two, we’re giving you our quick impressions of it, and will chime in with a full review later. The first thing you notice is how…

The iPad Mini Seems Crazy Expensive

There’s almost no question that the iPad Mini is a terrific device; it’s got too much pedigree and money behind it to be anything else. But barring some sort of miracle from on Ive, it’s also certifiably overpriced. And that’s a bad sign for Apple. At first blush, the iPad Mini has a lot to…

Here’s How Much Tablet Your Budget Can Get You

You have dozens of different flavors of tablets to choose from, and now you have two more to add with Apple’s new iPad Mini and the surprise fourth-gen iPad. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-mini-everything-you-need-to-know-5953978 Each tablet has different price points, storage capacity, screen sizes, configurations, and so forth. It’s kind of confusing, and sometimes choice is overwhelming. So we’ve…

Amazon Literally Makes No Money When You Buy a Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Fire HD

Jeff Bezos revealed to the BBC that Amazon makes no profit off the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Fire HD. Both devices are sold at cost, which means, both devices’ price is how much it costs Amazon to make them. That selling hardware for no profit is certainly much different from Apple’s strategy (they make a…

Kindle Fire HD vs. Nexus 7: What’s the Best 7-inch Tablet Display?

Less than a year after the first generation of smaller tablets gained traction, a second generation of 7-inchers has arrived—the Google Nexus 7 launched in July and the Amazon Kindle Fire HD in September. There are many other manufacturers making small tablets, but these are the only models seeing significant demand. As we’ll see, in…

Kindle Fire HD or Nexus 7?

The Kindle Fire HD is out now, and it’s plenty great. But given the choice between Amazon’s latest and greatest and the power packed Nexus 7, which should you choose? Here’s your guide for picking the cheap-but-awesome tablet you should get. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-hd-review-everything-a-tablet-should-be-an-5942283 For just watching some movies or reading some books This is about as…

Developers Suspect the New Kindle Fires Will Be Hack-Resistant

If you were banking on hacking a new Kindle Fire to take advantage of cheap hardware without Amazon’s modded Android OS, you perhaps better think again. Developers over at XDA are speculating that they expect the new range of Fires to be too sophisticated to hack. In particular, a forum post provides evidence which suggests…