Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted 62
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, XDA Developers forum users kinfaus and pokey9000 were discussing how the latest devices from Amazon (the second-generation 7 Kindle Fire and the 7 Kindle Fire HD) come with more sophisticated protection than their predecessors, including locked bootloaders and 'high security' features offered by their OMAP processors. Today, the devices have been rooted."
Using a known bug in busybox dating to April even.
Re:The missing feature (Score:5, Insightful)
No, it just got a lot LESS attractive. Rooted with locked bootloader = meh.
I got the Kindle Fire because it had an unlocked bootloader. Locked bootloader = no-go for me. Nexus 7 all the way!
Re:The missing feature (Score:5, Insightful)
Because then the customer can blame Google when something goes wrong with it.
Not really an Android tablet (Score:4, Insightful)