You know it's gonna happen, but when? I think we should take bets on how many days, weeks or months it will take to crack this baby and unlock whatever extra potential there is waiting inside.
I'm wondering how locked down it will be. I read that it uses close to the same internals as the blackberry playbook. I read an article a while back that the cost of parts for the playbook was around $200. It seems that Amazon doesn't care to make much off of the hardware and is focusing on making their money off of their software they add to it. That leads me to believe they're not going to want people to be able to easily remove it. I honestly hope that they leave it wide open and we get CM or ICS on it as soon as possible but idk.
it's hard to say especially since its been said that the fire won't have a microsd card slot or usb mass storage mode
It seems the Kindle Fire guys are up for people rooting it so no locked bootloader.
Who actually manufactures this device? HTC? Sammy?
Indeed that is what the parts would cost if YOU were building it. What those "break down and price out parts" websites fail to factor in is what RIM, Amazon, or any other OEM ACTUALLY pays for the parts. When the OEM's buy components, they don't pay retail, they get a discount for buying in extremely large quantities (obvious). How much they really pay for the parts is something that the OEM is rarely willing to release. That's why the figures that those types of websites release almost always show the OEM losing money.
You will not see honeycomb or any other Android upgrade on the Fire. Amazon built the OS on an earlier version of Android and going forward will be developing there own OS without the help of Google.
Christian
kindlejunkies.com