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Jessica Lares · 03-13-2012, 09:14 AM

Probably because a lot of us just completely deleted the Amazon stuff and loaded CM7/9.

A rooted Fire is better because...

You get a better DPI range - There's something weird on the Amazon stock, once you switch over to something like CM7, it's a huge difference. Looking at the Android Market on my stock Kindle made me dizzy.

You get to use regular apps - The Kindle's bar at the bottom is EXTREMELY HUGE/unlike the typical Android bar, hence we're forced to use Kindle Fire Edition applications on stock. At the end of the day, this is the most problematic issue with compatibility with the Android Market in general.

You get to run tablet apps - Not mobile/phone editions. Big ones like

Mint.com:

Adobe Photoshop Touch:

Evernote:

We still don't have Hardware Acceleration, so we can't use things like Netflix or Google Chrome, but when we do finally have a way, it's going to blow away all the $500 tablets for sure.

03-13-2012, 09:14 AM	#10
Jessica Lares Wizard Posts: 2,240 Karma: 5759170 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Near Dallas, Texas, USA Device: iPad Mini, iPod Touch (5th gen)	Probably because a lot of us just completely deleted the Amazon stuff and loaded CM7/9. A rooted Fire is better because... You get a better DPI range - There's something weird on the Amazon stock, once you switch over to something like CM7, it's a huge difference. Looking at the Android Market on my stock Kindle made me dizzy. You get to use regular apps - The Kindle's bar at the bottom is EXTREMELY HUGE/unlike the typical Android bar, hence we're forced to use Kindle Fire Edition applications on stock. At the end of the day, this is the most problematic issue with compatibility with the Android Market in general. You get to run tablet apps - Not mobile/phone editions. Big ones like Mint.com: Adobe Photoshop Touch: Evernote: We still don't have Hardware Acceleration, so we can't use things like Netflix or Google Chrome, but when we do finally have a way, it's going to blow away all the $500 tablets for sure.