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.
Kindle fire is dead to me (Score:5, Interesting)
As far as the lack of a memory slot, that only bothers me because I'd like to take movies on vacation with me... But then I learned I could connect the Nexus 7 to an external hardrive via USB on the go and viola.
Sorry amazon, forcing me to watch ads is not a way to get me to buy your product.
Re:Not really an Android tablet (Score:4, Interesting)