My wife’s original Amazon Kindle Fire had started to see little use and was getting slow. I always found the original Amazon Kindle Fire to be slow anyways, and that proprietary Amazon version of Android had always irked me. My wife, who was the primary user of the Kindle Fire didn’t care as she mostly used it to read books, but lately it had been sitting around on the shelf without getting any use. Since I was bored, I decided to go ahead and root it and get Android 4.2 onto it (after asking her permission lol).
I Rooted and installed Android 4.2 Rom (same as Nexus 7) onto the original Amazon Kindle Fire. It is so much faster and better now and I compared it with a friend’s Nexus 7 and I can tell no difference. Obviously there is no camera or mic, but all apps are working fine and even games like Subway Surfers is running 100% smooth.
I was contemplating getting a Nexus 7, but now after doing this I basically got a free one.