Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX tablets have 7 inch or 8.9 inch displays, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processors, 2GB of RAM, and Amazon’s custom version of Google Android, called Fire OS. Hackers have been ...

It’s been possible to unlock the bootloader and root the latest Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet since January. But up until recently the only known method for doing that involved prying open the tablet’s case ...

Amazon has always used a heavily augmented version of Android for their tablets. They do this because it makes their products distinctive in the marketplace and locks people into the Amazon ecosystem.