One of the limitations of Amazon’s new 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet, is that you are restricted to the apps available on Amazon’s Appstore for Android rather than the full Android Market. So what happens when you want to use an app that’s available in the Android Market but hasn’t yet reached Amazon’s store.

There is actually a not-too-complicated way around that limitation. Although, if you wanted to sideload applications on the B&N Nook Color you had to actually root it first, Amazon hasn’t really locked-down the Kindle Fire. It all falls down to enabling a simple option in settings.
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While we are still waiting for Barnes & Noble to release their own, and official, app store for the Nook Color you can go ahead and install Amazon’s just released Appstore for Android on the lovely e-reader/tablet device. Irony aside, you will need a rooted Nook Color and you can easily install the Amazon Appstore by following these instructions:
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Amazon’s Appstore for Android is now live and open for business. Angry Birds Rio is joining Amazon for the launch and it’s free to download for the rest of today (normally $0.99). It will not be the only free paid app on offer, Amazon will be featuring a different paid app each day for free which we are sure will be a good incentive for people to download and use the appstore.
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Amazon has long announced that it will be launching its own Android app store and it has just struck an exclusive debut of the next installment in the Angry Birds saga.

Angry Birds Rio will follow the very successful Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons which have more than 30 million downloads on Android. This latest installment ties with the release of the animated movie with the same title, Angry Birds Rio, on April 15.
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