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Old 06-20-2016, 02:18 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by NullNix View Post
(Can Android even start up with a screen looking even remotely like the current Kindles do, or must you always be faced with a do-this-or-this-or-this home screen that tempts you with dozens of things that are not reading? I've certainly never seen an Android installation that does anything like that.)
Kindle Fire is android, and it starts up with a custom "desktop" that is much like the latest GUI framework on eink kindles, so yes, android "can even start up with a screen looking even remotely like the current Kindles do".

Fires are sold primarily as a reading device, not a tablet, after all, so a book-friendly (cheap alternative to color eink) GUI is essential to getting Fire owners to buy ebooks from the amazon store. Yes, folks do hack THAT device to be a tablet PC, because under that bookish skin, it really is a tablet PC.
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