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Amazon App Store Finally Opening To Australians

Tired of the Google Play Store? Then good news! The Amazon Appstore is finally coming to Australia. Here’s how and when you can get it.


Amazon’s New $3 Kid-Friendly Subscription Service

Amazon’s just launched Free Time Unlimited for its range of Kindle Fire tablets, which offers unlimited access to age-restricted movies, games and books for kids, for just $US3 a month.


Kindle Fire HD 8.9-Inch First Impressions: The Most Comfortable Big Tablet?

The Kindle Fire 8.9 just showed up on our doorstep. It looks as lovely as we remember it. And instead of banging out a half-baked review in a day or two, we’re giving you our quick impressions of it and will chime in with a full review later.


The iPad Mini Seems Crazy Expensive

There’s almost no question that the iPad Mini is a terrific device; it’s got too much pedigree and money behind it to be anything else. But barring some sort of miracle from on Ive, it’s also certifiably overpriced. And that’s a bad sign for Apple.


Kindle Fire HD Vs Nexus 7: Which Has The Best 7-inch Tablet Display?

Less than a year after the first generation of smaller tablets gained traction, a second generation of 7-inchers has arrived — the Google Nexus 7 launched in July and the Amazon Kindle Fire HD in September. There are many other manufacturers making small tablets, but these are the only models seeing significant demand. As we’ll see, in this short period of time these mini tablets have evolved into first-tier products with excellent displays that outperform most full-size higher-priced tablets. But which is best?


Kindle Fire HD Has Already Been Rooted

Crafty hackers over at the XDA Developers forum have already figured out how to root the new Kindle Fire HD. Initially, some developers suggested that the new Kindles would be hack-reistant, but as the video above demonstrates, it’s already been done.


Kindle Fire HD: The Pretty Little Tablet Spills Its Gorgeous Guts

The DIY maniacs at iFixit got their hands on the new Kindle Fire HD, cracked it open and found out some neat new details about the beautiful new 7-inch tablet’s guts.


Developers Suspect The New Kindle Fires Will Be Hack-Resistant

If you were banking on hacking a new Kindle Fire to take advantage of cheap hardware without Amazon’s modded Android OS, you perhaps better think again. Developers over at XDA are speculating that they expect the new range of Kindle Fires to be too sophisticated to hack.


Conan O’Brien Has An Even Cheaper Amazon Tablet For You

Amazon’s Kindle Fire has declared an all out price war with the iPad. But if you don’t need all those fancy colour-screen bells and whistles, you can opt for the even cheaper e-ink Kindle. And if even that’s overkill, Conan O’ Brien has discovered Amazon is selling — or renting — an even cheaper solution.


Amazon Might Have Just Leaked The New Kindle And Kindle Fire In An Ad

Amazon’s big gala fast approaching and we’re expecting a lot of new products: a Kindle Fire, new Kindles with frontlit displays and maybe even a surprise phone. You can see two of them right now. During a Giants vs Cowboys NFL game aired today in the US, Amazon unveiled a brand new ad that shows off never before seen devices. Devices which are very probably the new Kindle and possibly the new Kindle Fire.


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