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Amazon has finally announced its smartphone and dubbed it “Fire Phone”. The phone comes after years of countless rumors. We’ll go right into the specs. Fire Phone sports a 4.7-inch HD LCD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. It’s 8.9mm slim and weighs 160 grams. On the inside the Fire Phone gains power from a 2.2GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, with Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM. Internal storage is at 32GB or 64GB. The Fire Phone runs Amazon’s Android-forked Fire OS 3.5.0.   For cameras, theRead More

The Washington Post just confirmed Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos acquired it and its publications for $250 million in cash! According to the announcement, Amazon  “will have no role in the purchase.” Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, “will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days.” The announcement also states The Post Co. will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without The Post thereafter.” That, my friends, is what scares meRead More

Africa’s leading e-commerce site, Jumia, has just raised $26 million from Summit Partners, a $15 billion equity firm that invests in rapidly growing companies. The company is already active in Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco, and says it will use the funds to expand to more countries and strengthen its operations. The new investment is in addition to the one they received earlier from JP Morgan Asset Management. The terms of this investment are still undisclosed but we know from information that Summit has a history of investing in e-commerce start-ups in emerging markets like the Asian AmazonRead More

Amazon has announced a new lineup of its Kindle range of devices: the Kindle Fire HD. The Kindle Fire HD range includes the Kindle Fire HD 7-inch and the Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch tablets. Both versions have been made thinner at 0.4 inches for the 7″ and 0.35″ for the 8.9″. Kindle Fire HD 7″ The Kindle Fire HD 7″ is an upgrade to the original Kindle Fire. Retaining its 7-inch display, Amazon has added a 1280×800 HD display to this tablet, running it on a 1.2Ghz dual-core CPU andRead More

A photo purpoted to be that of an upcoming variant of Amazon’s Kindle Fire has leaked to The Verge. The image shows that Amazon might have a 10-inch Kindle Fire model in the works as BGR reported in June. From the image we can see that there are no physical buttons on the device as is common with a lot of new Android smartphones and tablets. We can also see a front-facing camera and it’s been reported that the new Kindle Fires will have metal cases as opposed to theRead More

It seems ad agencies are starting to catch on attacking Apple in commercials these days. As if the Samsung-Apple ads weren’t amusing enough, Amazon has decided to go at it too in a new commercial for their Kindle products. The ad shows the man (iPad user) trying to shield his device from the sun when he notices the woman using the Kindle Touch. “Best way to read, even in sunlight,” she says. He tries to defend his iPad by saying he can watch movies and surf the web when sheRead More

Developers on xda-developers forums have figured out a way to port Amazon‘s Silk browser(the browser for the Kindle Fire) unto different rooted Android devices. Note: Rooted Android Devices only. First, you’ll need to root your Android device, then download a package file and install it to the /system/lib directory with permissions set to the same as the other files in that folder. Next you download any of the available .apks but remember to move the .apk for Silk to from /data/app to /system/app. Reboot your device and you should have Amazon’sRead More

  Members of the developer forum, xda-developers, have gotten a pre-alpha version of Android 4.0 running on Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The installation is based on CyanogenMod 9 with the ROM working well at its early stage. The Ice Cream Sandwich custom ROM removes all Amazon’s customisation that was pre-installed on the Tablet. There are no Amazon apps and the user interface has been replaced. Watch the video for proof of the installation and if you wish to install Android 4.0 on your Kindle Fire, click here Source: BGRRead More

Amazon has updated the software on the Kindle Fire to verson 6.2.1. The update hopes to fix problems with the touchscreen, improve performance and brings a few new features. New features include the ability to add a password to lock Wi-Fi access and the option to choose which apps display on the home carousel. Amazon hasn’t actually acknowledged performance problems with the Kindle Fire, which was officially announced in September. The Kindle’s update should work as an over-the-air update but if you haven’t received it yet, you can download itRead More

Earlier today, Amazon unveiled four new kindles. A new version of the Regular Kindle starting at $79, Kindle Touch with a touchscreen at $99, Kindle Touch 3G with free 3G at $149 and the Kindle Fire: Amazon’s Android tablet. We heard confirmation on Amazon’s Kindle tablet a while back although the rumors have been around for about a year. All Kindles will get Amazon’s Whispersync service for free: Bookmarks, notes and highlights are automatically synchronized across devices. We’ll take a quick look at each of Amazon’s new devices. Kindle FireRead More