the kindle fire hd first came out on november 2011.
the kindle fire hd first came out on november 2011.
when did the kindle fire hd first come out?
november 2011
the fire, formerly called the kindle fire, is a tablet computer developed by amazon.com. built with quanta computer, the kindle fire was first released in november 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with ips technology and running a custom version of google's android operating system called fire os. the kindle fire hd followed in september 2012, and the kindle fire hdx in september 2013. in september 2014, when the fourth generation was introduced, the name "kindle" was dropped. in september 2015, the fifth generation fire 7 was released, followed by the sixth generation fire hd 8, in september 2016. the seventh generation fire 7 was released in june 2017. the ninth generation fire 7 is scheduled for release in june 2019.
amazon fire tablet
while the kindle fire line has always used customized distributions of android, particularly 2.3.3 (api level 10) (kindle fire) and 4.0.3 (api level 15) (fire hd), amazon only began referring to the distribution as fire os beginning with its third iteration of kindle fire tablets, which includes the fire hd 2nd generation and fire hdx models. unlike previous kindle fire models, whose operating system is listed as being "based on" android, the fire hdx "fire os 3.0" operating system is listed as being "compatible with" android; fire os 3 is forked from android 4.2.2, (api level 17). in the fire hd (3rd generation) and fire hdx (2nd generation) tablets, fire os 4 is included that is forked from android 4.4.2 (api level 19). fire os 4.5.1 is based on android 4.4.3. fire os 5.0 is based on android 5.1 (api level 22). fire os 6 is based on android 7.1.2 (api level 25).
fire os