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This $20 app turns your cheap Kindle into a full Android tablet

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 17, 2013

The Kindle Fire is a great little cheap tablet, but out of the box it doesn’t run a modern version of Android, doesn’t connect to your Google account, and doesn’t have access to all of Google Play’s million or so apps.

Except mine does.

I have a Kindle Fire in my hands. It’s $150, light, feels great, and has a 1.2Ghz processor and 8GB of storage. And thanks to the magic of a $20 app from N2A OS, it runs a full and complete and modern version of Android and, yes, can download and play Candy Crush Saga.

Essentially, it’s a jailbroken Kindle.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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