Amazon Fire Phone

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story imageToday, Amazon revealed the Fire Phone , its new Amazon branded phone. The device sports a quad-core 2.2GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB or 64GB storage, and a 13MP back-facing camera. Although the 4.7 inch screen is not actually 3D, a matrix of four front-facing cameras track your movements to alter your prospective.

What makes this an Amazon phone and not just another Android phone? Well, for starters, there is a dedicated hardware button to launch Firefly - Amazon's version of Eden-of-the-East - that can snap a picture and identify nearly any product and then link to the Amazon page. In short, it makes it really easy to buy things on Amazon. Also, Amazon is offering unlimited photo storage in the cloud. Together with Amazon Prime's new streaming video and music features, they seem to be really pushing the "Everything to the cloud!" approach.

Re: It's $650! (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-18 20:09 (#25X)

The only "distinguishing features" worth a damn are big screen, long battery life, Android/CM/etc., cheap, and sturdy.

Smartphones are commodities, whether Apple and Amazon have realized that or not.

$650 and they throw in some cloud storage. FSM on a pogo stick that's missing the market.
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