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Arriving in 2007 with its e-paper display, the Amazon Kindle revolutionised reading and has become almost synonymous with e-readers. Seven years on, there's been a steady evolution of the Kindle, introducing whiter screens, backlights and touch. On review here is the Kindle, 2014 edition. This is the standard model - not the Paperwhite, not the Voyage - so let's take
Back in February 2014, I reviewed the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and I was impressed with Amazon's top-of-the range tablet. Amazon has continued to push their Fire tablet range and the fourth generation of the Fire tablets came out in September 2014. Not only did Amazon bump the spec with the refresh, they bumped the Kindle moniker too, reserving that
Amazon has been building the Fire brand over the past few years, starting with tablets, moving to media players and streaming sticks, before most recently producing a smartphone. The Fire TV media player has been on-sale in the US for some time, but only came to the UK back in October. I've been playing with Fire.....TV for the past couple of
Being a geek can sometimes become pretty expensive. Different devices offer differing amounts of geek fun for the buck. Every car and pickup manufactured from 1996 forward has what is known as an OBD2 port. OBD is short for on board diagnostics. The OBD2 port was originally mandated as part of emission control efforts. There are plenty of consumer-oriented OBD2
Finally, Amazon has made available an Amazon Prime Instant Video Player for Android phones. However, there is a bit of a catch. Rather than making the Amazon Prime Instant Video Player available in the Google Play Store, it is available only via Amazon Android Apps, which are now part of the regular Amazon Store app that you probably already have
Just in case you were going to miss it, Thursday is "Read an a eBook Day", a celebration of modern storytelling. Surprisingly, it's not sponsored by Amazon on behalf of the Kindle but rather OverDrive whose apps let you borrow library books for free. Yes, for free. It's probably one of the best keep secrets in the whole tablet and ereader
Rovio has become synonymous with mobile gaming, thanks to the wildly popular Angry Birds franchise. The Finnish company has released multiple versions of the title, covering everything from Rio to Space, and even Star Wars. Now the long-awaited new one is here, with Angry Birds Stella debuting across multiple platforms -- sorry Windows Phone users, but you were left out.