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Okay I got the Amazon Kindle Fire on Friday 16, 2012 in the morning and as soon as I opened the box I noticed it was it didn't come with the USB cable. Luckly my Sprint HTC EVO's USB cable works just as fine. As soon as I got my screen protector, I started using this thing, and one thing I've noticed is that you can install dropbox normally. However, there is a longer method to doing this probably 2 more minutes then it needs to be. So if you have a Kindle Fire and want dropbox on your device this is how you install as if you go to the Amazon app/book store and buy one, it will tell you that the application is incompatible. Step 1: Allow Installation of Unknown Apps Go into your Kindle Fire settings and enable “allow installation of unknown applications”. Step 2: Install ES File Explorer from Amazon App Store Download and install ES File Explorer from the Amazon App store, this application lets you browse the file system on your Kindle Fire so you can select and install .apk files which are packaged android applications. (Similar to .exe files on Windows). Step 3: Download DropBox .APK Manually Go to https://www.dropbox.com/android manually and download the Dropbox .apk file directly to your Kindle Fire. You can do this by opening your Silk Browser and downloading the dropbox APK directly to your Kindle Fire or downloading it to your PC and transferring it to your Kindle Fire via USB. Step 4: Install Drop Box Click on the Dropbox.apk icon in the ES File Explorer, it will appear under your “Downloads” folder if you downloaded directly from Dropbox.com/android URL from your Silk Browser. Step 5: Start up Dropbox and Sign In Start up Dropbox and sign in or register if you are a new user. Once you have Dropbox installed and are signed in you should see all of your folders, images, files that you have access to from your PC as well. Until the Dropbox application is registered in the Amazon App store as compatible with the Kindle Fire, this is a a workaround for getting Dropbox to work on your Kindle Fire.