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By Mihir Patkar on 21 ^st November, 2013 | Social Media, Tech News | No Comments

Amazon has Launched an update for its Fire OS, Which powers the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire tablets HDX. And as noted in the Kindle Fire HDX review, it’s the software experiencethat makes it different from any other Android tablet.

Fire OS 3.1 has deep integration with Goodreads, the community of booklovers for Recommendations and reviews. There’s no need to leave a book and open the Goodreads app, as users can capture and share quotes, see what friends are reading, add books to the want-to-read shelf, rate and review a book, and import all of your Amazon books into your Goodreads account.

Along With that, the Fire OS 3.1 introduces Amazon’s attempt at taking on Google Chromecast, the device thatlets you stream your smart device’s contents to a nearby TV. Amazon’s Second Screen has a similar function with Which you can “fling TV shows and movies from your tablet to your big-screen TV,” using your Kindle Fire HDX for playback controls, a custom X-Ray display, read emails or browse the web , and more. Currently, Second Screen will be available on the PlayStation 3 and Samsung Smart TVs; it willalso be coming to the PlayStation 4 soon.

The new Cloud Collections feature lets users organize moonrise newspapers, magazines and books into groups That are synced across all Kindle devices. If you’re running short on space, 1-Tap archive frees up space by letting you magnification unused items in the cloud. The update overpriced generated speech-to-text functionality and wireless printing.

Fire OS 3.1 is available as an over-the-air (OTA) update on the new generation of Kindle tablets, including the $ 139 Kindle Fire HD, the 7 “Kindle Fire HDX, and the 8.9″ Kindle Fire HDX. You can overpriced manually download it from www.amazon.com / kindlesoftwareupdates.

Source: Amazon, The Verge

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