A report indicates that Amazon is abandoning its proprietary tablet software in favor of Android. This change could start impacting Fire tablets next year.

As part of a project known internally as Kittyhawk, Amazon plans to release a higher-end tablet as soon as next year offering the Android operating system software for the first time, according to six people familiar with the matter.

Will the next Amazon Fire tablet have a Android operating system? If that's the case, prepare for a major price hike. According unnamed insiders that spoke to Reuters, Amazon is planning a strategic overhaul of its Fire tablets which would involve using an open source version of the Android operating system.