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Amazon Silk Browser Hacked

Hackers have successfully deployed the Kindle Fire’s Silk browser on other Android devices. “The hack requires a rooted device, and some mucking about with apk files, but does share the Silk love,” writes The Register’s Bill Ray. “XDA-Developers member TyHi initially hacked the Silk browser into the popular CyanogenMod Android distribution, but others have tested […]

Jan 6, 2012
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Hackers have successfully deployed the Kindle Fire’s Silk browser on other Android devices.

“The hack requires a rooted device, and some mucking about with apk files, but does share the Silk love,” writes The Register’s Bill Ray.

XDA-Developers member TyHi initially hacked the Silk browser into the popular CyanogenMod Android distribution, but others have tested it on a wide variety of builds and devices — though there appears to be no reason to bother beyond the joy of seeing what can be done,” Ray writes.

Go to “Amazon Kindle Fire browser hacked for your Android pleasure” to read the details.

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