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by polarjoe 3764 days ago
No, Android works just fine on lower end hardware. I have a very old phone running 5.x smooth as butter (the 3" Xperia Mini, single core Cortex-A8, 384MB RAM, running LegacyXperia).

However, I could turn my phone into a pile of mud (and you could probably do this too with your kindle fire) by installing Google Apps, in particular google play services.

(created an account just to say this)

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It's a 1 ghz a9 snapdragon cpu.