That us what I use, great platform and they do have the latest android Roms for it. I'm on ics but will be upgrading shortly. I would never use the the Amazon Android as it fully locks you in to them. I do enjoy reading my nook books on a fire :) --j On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, Mike Miller wrote: > I just ran across this article... > > 59% Of All Android Tablet Usage Comes From The U.S., > And The Forked Amazon Kindle Fire Is The Most Popular Brand > > http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/**27/59-of-all-android-tablet-** > usage-comes-from-the-u-s-**where-amazons-kindle-fire-**leads-the-pack/<http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/59-of-all-android-tablet-usage-comes-from-the-u-s-where-amazons-kindle-fire-leads-the-pack/> > > > ...but the article claims, "Because Fire is built on a 'forked' version of > Android, the Google Play app storefront doesn’t appear on it." That is not > true of the Kindle Fire I bought from Yaron (he advertised it here). It > does have Google Play. I don't know if he had to do something special to > get it on there. I do know that it is very important because it is how I > installed loads of software on the device, all for free (mostly free as in > freedom, too). > > Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130130/946ac110/attachment.html>