Gizmodo: "Kindle Fire HD: Better, Faster, Cheaper—Bigger!"

[michael_stutzer]

famousringo said:

Chandler said:
I'm a total noob when it comes to tablet PC's but I might need one for all the iOS/Android games which release in the future. Would this tablet be a good choice for this kind of usage? What OS does amazon use?

That's an important question. Amazon has their own fork of Android. The version for the last Fire was based on Android 2.2, IIRC. I don't think anybody knows what version this device is based on. Could be 2.2 that Amazon has continued to refine, could be a version 4.0 derivative with all the Google stripped out and replaced with Amazon.

It was based on 2.3. Pretty much every rumor indicated that this is based on Android 4. The device seems quite zippy so I think it is true.