amazon fire 7

picked up 2 of the 4.99 cases in argos yesterday...lady said they sold/reserved 140 in TEN minutes. Even the staff couldn't get them. at 35 euro you cant go far wrong. you can hardly get a tablet from China at those prices!

also the cases look far more than 4.99 worth

Btw: when purchasing these off Amazon,

Can you avail of:

Congratulations. Your purchase entitles you to £1.00/£2 credit to spend on movies and TV shows available to buy or rent on Amazon Video.

Or is it only available to UK?

Also which delivery provider is best if ordering it from amazon UK?

I see currys are selling it today for 39.99.
Might be worth getting if you dont want to wait for delivery since Argos seems to be sold out now.

irishproduce wrote: »

Would the Currys one be like the Argos one, i.e. without all the junk stuff on it?

As far as I know, yep.

jonnycivic wrote: »

All of them are running just the Amazon OS so no bloatware at all.

I think he means the ads you see when you lock the screen (which can be removed in a minute so not really a valid reason to dismiss the Amazon.co.uk-sold ones)

jonnycivic wrote: »

Yeah they all come with those ads but are disabled pretty quickly.

Has anyone put stock Android back on theirs?

And is it possible to upgrade them to Marshmallow 6.0?

jonnycivic wrote: »

Yeah they all come with those ads but are disabled pretty quickly.

Has anyone put stock Android back on theirs?

Plan to do this shortly after mine is delivered on Wednesday. Apparently latest fire OS version is a little trickier to root/flash so plan on not letting it upgrade if it's not on there already. Will post back here when it's done.

dont you just ring them up and they remove the ads there and then for you?

Here's how to ask them to remove the ads:

http://benbrausen.com/business/work-life/how-to-remove-ads-from-your-amazon-kindle-for-free

it's for Kindle, but same story

got mine tonight, wow, the amazon appstore is bad. will be putting the play store on asap, very poor range of apps compared to play

found these articles on adding the play store without rooting it (and possibly bricking it)
http://www.howtogeek.com/232726/how-to-install-the-google-play-store-on-your-amazon-fire-tablet/
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2016/07/02/how-to-install-google-play-on-fire-tablets-the-super-easy-way-no-pc-or-root/


if you want to root it
http://troypoint.com/how-to-root-amazon-fire-7-5th-gen-tablet-install-slimrom/


also

-Can run many 3D games surprisingly well. (Not blazingly fast on high settings like
a premium tablet would, but fast nonetheless, guess it depends on what game we're talking about
and how optimised it is.)

-Can run android PS1 emulators
quite well on the right settings. (You may need a certain plugin, if I recall correctly.)

-Can run 2D emulators like Sega Genesis.

-Can connect a cheap (£1 - £3) OTG cable to be able
to access SOME USB devices like flash drives, or an XBOX 360 controller, keyboard, etc.
(But my graphics tablet does NOT work, can't confirm if it happens with other brands/models of graphics tablets.)
My 2TB external hard drive also does NOT show up with OTG, unfortunately.

-Can run Kodi
somewhat reasonably on SD and 720p or even 1080p but it really depends on how high the bit-rate
of your video is, your internet connection speed, etc. (Loading your own videos seems to be quite fast.)
You may need to periodically clear your Kodi cache though as it gets
slow after accumulating a lot of cache files.

Thanks for the helpful tips, but may i ask what's rooting, bricking it & i've heard Kodi has more uses than what it was meant for

MarkY91 wrote: »

I expect my delivery tomorrow. Will be putting stock mdroid on it first thing.

I got two for Christmas presents, can I ask how do you put stock android on them and how do you put Google play on it? Thanks