The Amazon Appstore allows you to download and install apps on Amazon Fire tablets and Fire TV devices. But the Appstore actually predates the Amazon Fire ecosystem. Amazon first launched the Appstore in March, 2011 as an app that could be installed on ...

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets have a lot to offer that vanilla Android tablets don’t–lower prices and a larger media selection, for example–but a huge selection of tablet-optimized apps isn’t one of them. Still, Amazon has a few ideas on how to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon's Fire tablet lineup could be in for a big shakeup next year, according to new reports. For over a decade and a half, the tablets have run a fork of the Android system called Fire OS.

Amazon’s Fire Tablets are some of the cheapest tablets worth buying, especially if you can get one when it’s on sale. But part of the reason Amazon’s tablets are priced so competitively is because they ship with a custom version of Android called ...

As a life-long gamer, when I'm not powering up my Xbox, I'm swiping mobile games on my tablet. Before I owned one, I spent years playing app-based games on my iPhone, but the small smartphone screen was a strain for my eyes, especially at the end of the day.

Amazon could be on the verge of making a huge change to its popular Fire tablet lineup. A multiyear higher-end tablet project internally codenamed Kittyhawk is hinting at a high possibility of the company dropping the heavily customized Fire OS in favor of ...

Rumor mill: Analysts say Amazon could close long-standing gaps with higher-end competing tablets by using Android and thus delivering broader app support and better hardware, potentially reshaping its standing in a market still dominated by Apple and Samsung.