14 DAY TRIAL // Amazon’s tablets, old and new, are now running the company’s latest Fire OS dubbed Sangria, which is a decent OS if all you want to do is consume content.
However, this might not seem enough for the more tech-savvy users out there who like to tinker with their devices as much as they can.
Nevertheless, the option of wiping out the tablet of its pre-set operating system exists. And once you have managed to get rid of it, you can move on to install something a lot more exciting on the tablet.
Even so, before reaching this goal, developers need to build custom ROMs for the device. But that can’t happen before Amazon releases the code for the tablets that will allow devs to get to work.
Amazon's Fire HD 6 and HD 7 are barely out
You might already know that Amazon has a bunch of new tablets out in the form of the super affordable Fire HD 6 and HD 7.
The kernel files are available for download from Amazon’s customer services area and you can grab the same data for the company’s other products, including the all-new 2014 Kindle Voyage.
Last week we told you that Amazon has started shipping out its newest tablets, the Fire HD 6 and HD 7 to early adopters, which is a nice coincidence. Luckily, owners of the tablets won’t have to wait too long before the first custom ROMs for their tablets are made available by developers.
The launch of the Fire HD 6 and Fire HD 7 tablets marks a change in nomenclature while products are concerned at Amazon.
The company is seemingly trying to unify its mobile business (tablets and smartphones) by uniting them under the “Fire” banner. Even if, at first, we thought the company’s high-end tablets, the HDX bunch, will continue to use the Kindle name, this didn’t turn out to be case.
As for its eReader business, Amazon will continue to push the “Kindle” name like before.
Amazon Fire HD 6 and HD 7 bring decent hardware at cheap prices
The company’s latest set of tablets are quite a cheap set. The most affordable one starts at $99 / €78 and arrives with a 6-inch screen with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution and a 1.5GHz quad-core processor inside fitted with either 8GB or 16GB of internal storage.
The 7-inch retains the same specs, but comes with stereo speakers, as opposed to mono speakers in the smaller model.
Both tablets are equipped with Amazon’s latest OS Sangria, which is based on Android 4.4 KitKat.