Amazon Kindle software refreshes, Fire OS 3.1 released - ZDNet

Summary: The cloud turned tablet giant touts new enterprise features for the bring-your-own-device crowd for its next-generation range of Kindle Fire HD and HDX Fire tablets.

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX runs the latest Fire OS 3.1 update (Image: CNET)

Amazon is refreshing its tablet software, designed for its next-generation Kindle tablets, including the recently Announced Kindle Fire HD and Fire HDX.

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The Seattle, Wash.-based company touted new enterprise features into its Fire OS 3.1 update thatwill support bring-your-own-device (BYOD) users with secure Wi-Fi network support and native virtual-private networking (VPN ) software.

IT managers have not been kept out of the loop either: Fire OS 3.1 comes with new Kindle-specific device management hooks (APIs) thatwill integrate with Existing mobile device management (MDM) systems.

Also added:

Voice dictation available in all languages ??converts speech-to-text. For enterprise users, offline support is available in U.S. English only.

1-Tap archive frees up device space by pushing content into the cloud for later downloading, and Identifying contentthat has not been used recently

Fire OS now & Q Kerberos authentication, enabling the portability to browse secure Intranet websites from the Silk browser

wireless printing of photos, PDF documents, emails, contacts, calendar, and documents

A new feature opened up, Second Screen, Allows you to turn your television into a primary screen while using your Kindle Fire HD or HDX Fire tablet as a space to check email, browse the Web, or access to other apps.

Fire OS 3.1 overpriced country with Cloud Collections, Which helps to organize books, newspapers, magazines, and apps into customized collections for easy reference. Amazon’s cloud-powered Whispersync synchronizes the collections across Kindle devices So THAT content is available on all of your devices.

For booklovers, Goodreads is now integrated, allo wing users to find the latest books and engaged with others on book discussion.

Performance and battery life has been improved overpriced, and the update comes with a round of bug fixes.