in a word SHIT

you'd have to root it and do major procedures just to get PlayStore on it. amazon appstore is awful.

but apart from that there ok 3mel lol?!

if you don't mind a forked OS and medium range specs I guess.

I just rooted and put all the Google play services on it for what I use

was there a patch to stop it updating on it's own ?

don't know if they still do that, they probably would. a pushed update will wipeout your root completely on kindles so you had to stop it updating or take it fully custom.

No there wasn't

wow, just checked, it was launched in 2014 so there's a fair chance it's not even being updated anymore.

Yeah I remember this phone, Amazon had built it with all sorts of sensors back in 2014 and it was meant to be their entry into the Smartphone industry but it was a huge failure in the end, got far less sales than even the most conservative estimates at the time. It was a lot like the Essential Phone now.

just give mine away lol

what did you think of it ? there were probably some custom roms out for it that'd have been worth trying.

can't really lose on a cheap phone.

thought it was rubbish most sites it can't access these days

and most of the apps are way behind the google play store ones

thought you had the store working.

i did then it updated couple of days before i got rid of it and play store would not load and kept getting play services not compatible for this phone when that updated as well

It's never worth getting a device that runs a Forked Android version

you can take them completely custom though, there's always going to a lineage OS, AOSP or some such out there.

then you'll still get the latest android versions too.