For all us folk who are in the UK, according to the various threads on HotUKDeals these will be widely available from tomorrow at the likes of Currys, Argos, PC World, Tesco and - I suspect - Amazon UK for about £35.
People are reporting that they can buy more then 2 (on the same account). Just need to make a separate order to buy more. And it seems the amazon mobile app even lets you order more than 2 in a single order. Xda Black friday: $35 sale
There is actually a script that will do the de-bloating for you. Fire Setup Script (FSS) - Transform your Fire tablet
You can use adaway for your hosts file. It installs the host file for you, auto updates it as new things are added and combines hosts files from multiple sources (running deduplication).
Good to know. I have Amaon Prime so even though I have three tablets I might give this a shot just as a media set up.
Thanks, Halo, for the heads up! Order placed within 30 seconds of reading your post! :)
I’ve been wanting to pick up a decent little tablet for YouTube/Hulu/Netflix/Internet browsing ever since I sold an old IPad 2.
Based on the specs it looks like a bit of an upgrade, with a little smaller screen vs the iPad 2… What do you guys think?
Compared to an ipad 2? Hmmm.
Had to look up the specs on wikipedia
dual-core 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 “Apple A5”
512 mb DDR2 (1066 MHz RAM)
Flash 16 gb, 32 gb and 64 gb versions
9.7”, 4:3, 1024×768 132 ppi
Camera Front: VGA 0.3mp, Back: 0.7mp video 1280x720, pictures 960×720
a/b/g/n wifi, bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Sensors: 3axis gyro, accelerometer, magnetometer, proximity, ambient light
Specs do look better. Amazing how prices come down.
Fire only has 8 gb flash though. Could get a bit cramped. If you install large apps like large games, you could run out of room and need to uninstall old apps to fit new stuff. The fire does have a microSD but apps use the flash. At least with the stock fire OS, if you root it or use a custom rom you can move some apps to SD.
I think the fire certainly will have limitations, it has to at $50/$35 but it is from a major brand, amazon, it should be half way decent at least. Worth a shot imho. And I believe they may be selling it at a bit of a loss, expecting most people to buy books, apps, videos on the tablet. Also it shows ads on the lockscreen.
Tech prices are always fun to watch. I remember not that long ago I said to a friend “wow flash drives are $1 a GB!” Now like a year or two later they’re down to about .20 cents a GB.
I won’t be using the tablet to game, but watch YouTube mostly, a bit of internet browsing and some Hulu. It seems appealing at $35 for that… I’ve got till the 29th to decide at least.
Did you see somewhere that says the $35 sale will last until the 29th? I believe it’s today only.
What are the best free security programs to run on this?
They seem to be selling like hot cakes; that restock date keeps moving further and further away. 
I bought an astro tab brand for 39.90 a few days ago with better specs than the low end Fire, none of Amazon’s ads or bloatware, and I can just install the Kindle app from the Google Play store. It even has Lolipop 5.1. It’s a better Kindle than the Kindle.
I’m a huge fan of Amazon and buy most of the stuff I own from there, but not tablets.
Yay a 35$ tablet…oh wait, I’m in France, I have to check on Amazon.fr…
Oh 60€ only ? What a bargain…
X3, is it not possible to order through Amazon UK and get it shipped to France?
Well I ordered one via Amazon UK for £35.00 a bargain but nothing like the bargain they are having in the States. Mind you I don’t have any sales taxes or charges to add on to that price. I shall be running it stock as I have an Amazon Prime account. I will also invest in a 32gb micro sd card and fill it with a few box sets of tv shows and just use the device as a rough and ready media device that can be dropped in my work bag or whatever and not worried about.
So how tolerable is this screen really?
I did see a warning not to even try to use it outdoors, I think “world of pain” was the reviewer’s description
Is this flash card compatible with the Amazon fire?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TB8XZOK/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?tag=dealnewscom
Another question is, how do we know which flash cards are compatible with what devices, in other words, which are interchangeable, for instance SDXC UHS-1, or SDHC for example?
The Fire tablet (stock amazon OS) is compatible with microSD cards up to 128gb. As long as it’s not over 128gb it should work.
Though I would recommend sandisk microSD cards. They are the leader in SD. Any brand microSD should work fine, in any device, as long as the device supports the card’s capacity size. But once in awhile some brands other than sandisk can have compatibility problems. Not suppose to happen but it can happen.
For those planing to use a custom rom you might need to reformat larger SD cards to something other than exfat. See the xda CM12.1 thread.
What is an xda CM12.1, or it’s thread, for that matter, what is a custom rom?
Rom refers to the OS (operating system) in android devices. “Custom rom” means changing the OS on an android device. CM (CyanogenMod) 12.1 is one popular custom rom. Xda is a forum, by far the biggest forum for custom roms and major tweaking of android devices.
The OS is the entire environment that you see on screen, controls everything, Mac, windows, linux are OSs for computers.