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Welcome to Tekzilla Bites, feeding your tech hunger fast.
I'm Patrick Norton, and today is a big day
if you're an instant video user on Amazon Prime,
at least if you're an Android user.
I mean, let's face it.
Ask any Android user what the biggest problem with Amazon
Prime's Instant Video is, and you'll
get one answer-- it doesn't run on my Android device.
OK, it runs on your Android device if it's a Fire.
If you have one of the Fire phones.
Oh, look.
Stupid 3D interface.
Or one of the Fire tablets.
You can get instant video.
You could never do that on the other Android devices,
until now.
Kind of interesting, on the day of Apple's iPhone 6 slash
iWatch announcement, or whatever they
decide to call the new gadgets, Amazon
decides to release Instant Video for Android.
And they released it in a really weird way.
Getting the Instant Video app on your Android device
is a little peculiar.
First you gotta have Amazon Shopping App installed,
and then you gotta log into Amazon Shopping App,
and then you gotta find something
that's an instant video.
Instead of telling you it's not available on Android,
it launches a little window that says, hey,
you could load our new app.
Sounds awesome, right?
Except you've got to go through some
hoops to actually install it.
First you're going to have to go into the security
settings on your phone-- thoughtfully
they've given you a button to go straight there.
Next you're gonna have to give the OK to download
apps from unknown sources, which basically is anything
that isn't the Google Play Store.
And once you've done that, you can download the video app
directly from Amazon's application website.
Weird?
Yes.
Irritating?
Yes.
Amazon and Google in some sort of games going back and forth?
Absolutely.
But when it's done, you can open up the Instant Video app
or go into your primary Amazon shopping cart app,
and when you click on an instant video, you get to play it.
It looks good.
You can scroll, you can search, you can look by categories.
OK, it's a basic video interface, but you know what?
It would've been nice to see something a little snazzier,
seeing as how good things are starting
to look on devices like the Roku.
But you know what?
At this point I've been so desperate for so long
to have Instant Video on Android,
I'll take anything I can get and I'll be happy with it.
Now, if you're an Android tablet user
you might be a little frustrated because it doesn't
look like Amazon has updated that shopping cart
application to side load the instant video application yet,
but we hear people are loading the phone application
on their tablets and getting Instant
Video on their tablets that way.
By the way, any time you want, you
can run Crunchyroll on your Android tablet.
Do us a favor.
If you sign up for Crunchyroll, it
is an amazing source of all the newest anime, including
stuff that's just gone live in Japan.
It's going to show up on Crunchyroll pretty much
the same day it shows up overseas.
How cool is that? crunchyroll.com/tekzilla.
Support the show, and get yourself
an amazing source of anime.
And hey, do us a favor.
If you want to hear all the news about the new iPhone
announcement or what's going on at Intel Developers Forum,
go over to tekzilla.com or youtube.com/tekzilla,
subscribe, look for our videos, and comment down below,
or send us a tweet, @tekzilla you think Amazon Instant
Video's app is awesome or sucks.
I'm Patrick Norton, thank you so much for watching
this episode of Tekzilla Bites.