Turn your Kindle Fire into an Android 4.2 tablet

For a long time I've been a fan of
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which sells a simple plug-and-play way to turn Barnes & Noble's Nook tablets into full-blown Android tablets. After all, if you've got good hardware, why not unlock its maximum potential?
Now Kindle owners can get in on the action. N2A's new
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replacing Amazon's heavily customized -- and, some would say, limited -- operating system with the real deal.
There are, of course, a few important considerations. The first is that because Fires have no microSD slot, you can't just pop in a card and dual-boot the way you can with a Nook. Installing
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proper means downloading an installer to your PC and wiping the Kindle OS -- and all your downloaded content along with it.
Consequently, you'll lose access to Amazon Prime streaming video -- not a big deal if you're not a Prime subscriber, but unfortunately there's no Amazon Instant Video app available for Android. You can restore your books via the Kindle app, but that's it.
I took the service for a test-drive on a 2nd-gen Fire. (The developer will soon add support for HD models.) After connecting it to my PC and running N2A's compatibility checker, I downloaded the installer and watched it do its thing. The process took about 10 minutes (no touching!), after which my Fire was transformed to a Jelly Bean-powered tablet. That simple. Literally.
And you get the full Android experience here, including access to the Google Play store and all the other features offered by Android 4.2 (excepting what's not available via hardware, of course). I ran my usual stable of test apps -- Agent Dash, Flipboard, Netflix, USA Today -- and all of them worked flawlessly. I did frequently miss having physical volume-control buttons -- though N2A's Android build includes convenient virtual buttons on the home screen -- but that's Amazon's fault.