Comments on: Software turns Amazon Kindle Fire into a Nexus 7 lookalike

By: joe

joe — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:26:41 +0000

Good article. But the picture used is a Kindle fire HD.

By: Mathew Pankratz

Mathew Pankratz — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:56:10 +0000

I own a brand new Kindle Fire, that I more or less love. My mom purchased it for me for Christmas. When I got it I downloaded a bunch of games and stuff only to discover that amazon ships it with HER info preloaded. That’s great if you’re buying it for yourself, but very bad as a gift. I bought a bunch of things (very cheap things in the grand scheme of things, fortunately) that were bought on her account. I realized the error, paid her back and fixed it with my name- only to discover that now NONE of what I bought was available. BAH! So now I’m stuck with her account and I’ve got to pay her for whatever I want. Some of the things already had very important info that’d be difficult to duplicate, otherwise she’d get her refund and I’d start over.

Anyway, being that this is a new Kindle Fire, has Swype, camera and very good HD screen, what would I really NOT have that say a Nexus 7 has?

What would I lose by doing this? Since I have my mom’s account in here still, I do get her Prime instant video which is great for watching the old doctor who episodes I’m trying to catch up on, but aside from that, is there really much that’s not available through Google Play?

Someone could make some money buying these and re-selling them…

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:59:09 +0000

I doubt Amazon is too worried. Few folks will actually do this and even for those that do, Amazon MP3s and Kindle books are still supported.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:52:33 +0000

What are your impressions on how this might affect Amazon’s business model of subsidizing up front initial costs and making up the differences on later media sales?

Wondering if such a work around cheats Amazon and disincentives subsidization.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:31:41 +0000

No. Custom ROMs are generally device specific due to support for all of the internal hardware bits.

By: david

david — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:16:47 +0000

does this work on the kindle fire hd as well?

By: Matthew Fiori

Matthew Fiori — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:27:23 +0000

would love to do this since I already own a first gen Kindle fire that is just working as a cushion for my Nexus 4….the developer instruction is pretty much not understandable for me.

If you could get someone at your shop or the guy at Liliputing to do a video of the actual install process that would be very helpful.

The instructions given there imply a level of understanding and knowledge that I just do not have.

Thanks in advance if you can make that happen.