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Amazon switches to Android on new tablets

Amazon unveils Alexa Tablets running Android with Google Play, including a Pro model aimed at work

After more than a decade of focusing on low-cost devices, Amazon is taking its tablets upmarket and moving them to Android, setting up a more direct challenge to Apple’s iPad.

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The Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is Amazon's first full Android tablet — and it might rival the iPad Air

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Amazon's new Android tablets pack serious power and the Google Play Store

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Amazon is phasing out Fire Tablets because they weren’t ‘giving customers what they were asking for’

In an interview with Bloomberg, Amazon’s head of consumer electronics, Panos Panay, confirmed the company would phase out the Fire brand in favor of Alexa Tablets.

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Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

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Amazon just quietly dropped 3 new tablets — meet the Alexa tablets

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Hands-on with Amazon’s Alexa Tablet 12 Pro and its wild new matte display

Unlike the Fire Tablet lineup, the Alexa Tablet doesn’t run some hobbled version of Android stuck with Amazon’s app store with ads for Amazon services at every turn.

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RIP, Amazon Fire tablets: 2011-2026

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Amazon’s Alexa Tablets are coming for the iPad

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Amazon Snuffs Out the Fire and Rebrands Its Slates as Alexa Tablets

The three new aluminum Alexa Tablets now run Android with full access to the Google Play Store. There are versions for kids too. The era of Amazon's Fire tablets—cheap slate computers ranging from $60 to $280—is over. All of the Fire tablets are being ...