I honestly don't understand all of the "I won't go there .." comments. As if hacking your Fire is against the law or something. Or that it is hard. It couldn't have been easier (it literally took me fifteen minutes and I didn't break a sweat). And the Amazon commandos aren't going to knock your door in the dark of night and put you in Amazon jail. It's YOUR device. Do what you want with it! True: it might (probably will) make it difficult/impossible to get help from Amazon if you have a problem, but then you have had the use of a solidly functional device until/if it breaks! Listen .. there aren't any moving parts, and it's REAL hard to bust a Fire (unless if you drop it on concrete, but then ..)!
Hack it, crack it, and then you have the best of both worlds. You can use it as a fully functional Amazon Kindle Fire, or you have the choice to "boot" on the fly to a fully functional Android tablet with FULL access to the Android marketplace. I use the GO Launcher EX frontend and it's awesome! And the FREE Squeezebox app from the Android marketplace works very well. A quick Google search will yield site after site that details the steps to sideload everything you need .. and this will essentially end the need to ever sideload anything again .. and complete the process (I don't remember which site I ended up on, but they are all essentially the same). As to Fire vs. the Nook .. I think the Nook is a better device with its faster proc and the ability to add an SD card, but the Fire wins with the ability to stream free videos from Amazon Prime and access all of your Amazon Kindle purchases. And with apps such as Subsonic and the Amazon cloud, I really don't need to have a large amount of storage for movies or music anyway. BTW -- mods, if this somehow violates a board rule re: "hacking" a device, then I apologize in advance. -- NFLnut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NFLnut's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13180 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92754 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
