We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon's Fire tablet lineup could be in for a big shakeup next year, according to new reports. For over a decade and a half, the tablets have ...

Amazon Fire OS is a widely popular operating system powering most of the old and new Fire TV devices. The latest Fire TV Stick 4K Select debuted with the new Vega OS, in-house developed by Amazon.

Amazon’s potential abandonment of Fire OS represents a seismic shift in the company’s hardware strategy, signaling recognition that proprietary software limitations have hindered tablet sales and ...

Amazon has been selling tablets with a forked version of Android called Fire OS since 2011. The current lineup includes a mix of budget and mid-range devices with starting prices between $60 and $230.

If the Fire TV Select and Vega OS dropping had you thinking Amazon's entire streaming stick lineup would eventually move from Android-based Fire OS to the newer Linux-powered alternative, I wouldn't ...