Amazon released an update to the Kindle Fire bringing it to verision 6.2.1. The update includes a much needed performance boost among other things. While this is great news for most Kindle Fire owners, it also brings some disparaging news to those who have rooted their device. This update will indeed remove your root privileges, and unlike previous updates, you won’t be able to re-root the device using the SuperOneClick utility. Of course the majority of Kindle Fire users aren’t going to care about this, and while it’s a minor setback for the hacker community, I’m sure they’ll have a fix soon. Interested in knowing what improvements come with the latest 6.2.1 update?
The Duke is back, and this time he wants to let us know he’s free of charge. This classic first person shooter had reviewers furious over its release into the Android Market. It drew intense criticism for debuting as one of the first paid apps to include ads. It only took them one day (and dozens of one star ratings) to realize the error of their ways and release an update to remove the ads. It would appear that wasn’t enough to appease users and garner excitement as they are now offering the game for free in the Android Market.
Who doesn’t love a good contest? This one’s for all you Twitter users out there. Motorola is holding a Twitter sweepstakes entitled #WhiteRazrXmas, and will be giving away six Motorola White DROID RAZRS to six lucky tweeters. The contest officially started yesterday but runs daily thru 12/25 so you still have plenty of chances to win. What exactly do you have to do to enter? First, you’ll have to make sure you’re following @motorola, then all you have to do is send out a tweet wishing someone a #WhiteRazrXmas and you’re entered for that day. There’s only one entry per Twitter username per day, so multiple tweets in one day aren’t going to improve your chances.
That’s it. Simple and sweet. Now head on over to the official rules page to read over all the specifics before entering.
via Phandroid
Andy Rubin, SVP of Mobile at Google, recently announced that Android now sees 700,000 activations per day. The last time he gave such an update was in June of 2011, when Android was seeing 500,000 activations per day.
Popular tower defense game Jelly Defense has received a nice holiday update to keep you in the spirit. Many of you were lucky enough to pick this game up when it was part of Google’s $.10 app deal so I’m sure you’ll certainly welcome the new additions. The update features two winter levels for Christmas evenings, a challenging endless level, a new and cozy Christmas tune along with:
