Pick up the Amazon Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids Edition for up to 40 percent off with Prime membership - Android

Amazon Prime members now have the opportunity to pick up an Android tablet for just $29.99 or 40% off the regular price of $49.99. As you might have figured out by now, this is the Amazon Fire 7 tablet running on a "forked" version of Android. In other words, you won't be able to install any of Google's core Android apps although you will get to browse through the Amazon Appstore.

Back in May, Amazon upgraded the tablet by boosting the amount of storage of the base model to 16GB and adding a 32GB option. It also put in a faster 1.3GHz quad-core processor. The slate ...