Amazon's Fire Tablets are great Android tablets. But, there is an extra layer of use to them through Show Mode. With this function, you can turn your Fire Tablet into a larger, albeit slightly ...

There's still a huge catch, though. Amazon's long-running line of Fire-branded tablets is going to go through some significant changes, according to a new ...

A report indicates that Amazon is abandoning its proprietary tablet software in favor of Android. This change could start impacting Fire tablets next year.

Since the Fire tablet’s introduction in 2011, Amazon has used what is known as a “forked” version of Android with custom modifications that make it work like a unique operating system.

Amazon will integrate Android OS instead of its restrictive Fire OS as it looks to develop a higher quality version of its Fire tablet.

As part of a project known internally as Kittyhawk, Amazon plans to release a higher-end tablet as soon as next year offering the Android operating system software for the first time, according to ...

Amazon is preparing a major change to its long-running Fire tablet line, moving away from its proprietary Fire OS (based on Android, but still proprietary) and toward a pure Android OS ecosystem ...

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 full-on Android.

Amazon is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers over the company's homegrown operating system. As part of a ...