Amazon has released two new Fire TV Sticks in the past two years… and both have shipped with a Linux-based operating system ...

Amazon has launched a new Fire TV Stick HD. It's moving to a new operating system called Vega OS instead of the long running ...

Amazon is reportedly set to bid adieu to Android, ushering in a new era with its homemade Fire OS replacement. According to insights from veteran journalist Janko Roettgers on Lowpass and reported by ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

Amazon is planning to stop using Android on its entire range of own-brand smart devices, moving instead to a new operating system (OS) developed internally. As Lowpass reports, Amazon has had hundreds ...

It looks like Amazon has started its journey to ditch Android, shifting its hardware to the rumored in-house Vega operating system. The company quietly rolled out a new update for some Echo Show smart ...

The improved Fire TV Stick HD swaps Fire OS for Linux-based Vega OS. It releases at the end of April for $34.99 and is ...

Amazon’s Fire TV devices have been running a fork of Android since the company began offering these products in 2014, but it’s now ready to move to its own operating system, at least according to a ...

The big picture: Amazon uses a fork of Android called Fire OS to power its tablets and smart TVs, but it has also been developing a new operating system called Vega, with plans to ditch Android for ...

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.