How do you get ice cream sandwich on your kindle?

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Michael Al

I have a kindle fire. I figure if you hack your kindle fire you can installed ice cream sandwich which makes your kindle a android tablet. Except I don't know how to. I need help

Answer
Hi Michael, I cannot help with the specific instructions but just one point to make here - you'd have lost Kindle Fire warranty when you rooted it. If you had instead Nook Tablet (that has much better performance and screen than Fire), you could've "rooted" Nook via microSD boot card and could switch back and forth between different OS versions by switching the microSD cards. Nooks have microSD slot while Kindles don't. Also, known issues with Kindle Fire are that it runs hot to touch, video playback is jerky, touch screen is not responsive and it takes 2-3 touches to register, power button placement is very poor and is prone to accidental power off, all the hype of Silk browser is not true where the browsing is actually slower than on other Android tablets, Wi-Fi connection gives a lot of trouble to users on it, etc.

What brand in your opinion has the best processor and operating software in tablet form and why?

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mark_hensl

From an operating software stand point, I hear of gingerbread, ice cream, ios5, android versions and on and on. And then the processors from companies like Intel are all smaller and faster. If you can help me tell the difference in simple terms it would be greatly appreciated.

Answer
There are currently 3 or 4 operating systems that are in use for tablets right now, which are listed in order of market share (popularity)

IOS5

Android (note: Android comes in different versions, and each version has different names -- Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich)

Windows 7 and Windows 8 (which is currently in development and we'll start to see this in the market very soon)

QNX (only on the Blackberry Playbook) and WebOS (only the HP Touchpad)

There are also a lot of CPU makers -- which are not listed in order:

Qualcomm
Samsung
ARM Holdings
Intel
VIA
Texas Instruments (yes, those guys who make calculators)
Rockchip
Telechip

Out of that group, Samsung, Qualcomm and ARM have the largest piece of the market share pie (though I'm not exactly sure of the order). Intel currently have a very small niche of the market since Windows based tablets aren't as popular as iPads or Android tabs.

In terms of Market share, iPads currently have the lead, but from a news source:

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Apple's share has shrunk from 68% to 58% globally, for the sake of Android tablets, which went from 29% to 39%.

Microsoft is said to hold 1% of the market, so that leaves the rest 2% for RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook and the like.
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