Amazon Fire Phone
The Fire Phone is widely regarded as one of Amazon’s biggest misfires — and rightfully so. After debuting in the top spot of the company’s retail charts, things quickly spun…
Amazon’s Fire Phone Gets Another Drastic Price Cut: £99/$150 Off Contract In U.K.
Amazon continues to try to shift unsold inventory of its unpopular smartphone, the Fire Phone, by slashing the price-tag. It’s currently discounting a U.K. version of the device that’s on…
Given that Amazon was tanking the price of the Fire Phone down to 99 cents two months after launch (leading to many a “Fire sale!” joke), this probably won’t come…
Amazon Fire Phone Up For Pre-Order In The U.K.
Amazon’s first smartphone, the Fire Phone, is now available on pre-order in the U.K. on carrier O2. The phone will ship to U.K. buyers on September 30. It’s being offered…
On July 25 Amazon began shipping its Fire phone, which includes Firefly, software that instantly recognizes products you can directly purchase on Amazon. Hot on the heels of this announcement…
Amazon’s Bet On Exclusive Games To Make Its Fire Gadgets More Enticing
Amazon’s Fire Phone is out today, and while it’s got some interesting features that set it apart from your run-of-the-mill Android phone, it doesn’t seem like it will appeal to…
Amazon revealed yesterday during earnings that while revenues are growing, so are losses. That’s thanks at least in part to the development and production of the Amazon Fire Phone, which…
The Amazon Fire Phone Is A Shopper’s Delight But Not Much Else
For the better part of a decade, Amazon has been rolling out e-readers, tablets, and a box that you hook up to your TV while building up a library of…
Announced last month, the Amazon Fire Phone is the company’s first attempt at mobile hardware. Like its cousins in the Kindle Fire line of tablets, it runs a fork of…
Amazon Quietly Launches Its Consumer-Facing Mobile Wallet App, Amazon Wallet
Amazon’s first attempt at its own mobile wallet application, designed for use at the point-of-sale, has made a quiet debut on the Amazon Appstore and on Google Play. However, the…
Amazon’s Master Of Commerce Move Into The Phone Game
Mobile is so 2010. So why would Amazon throw its hat into the mobile phone fray? That’s the thing – they’re not. They are headed into battle in two other…
Gillmor Gang: Pulp Friction
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — talk FirePhone and its impact on digital transactions in the material world. For starters, it’s not…
Amazon Courts Fire Phone Developers With $15,000 In “Amazon Coins”
When Microsoft needed to convince developers to build mobile apps for its Windows Phone 8 platform, it took a familiar path: it offered them money to do so. Amazon, however,…
After today’s Fire Phone announcement, we got the chance to go hands-on with Amazon’s first foray into smartphone hardware.
As you probably know, Amazon launched its Fire Phone today. Sadly, the company didn’t make a live stream available, so you had to make do with our live blog. But…
With Firefly & Dynamic Perspective, Amazon Just Opened Up All New Categories For App Developers
With the introduction of the Firefly and Dynamic Perspective SDKs, mobile app developers who have grown tired of iterating on activities like messaging, photo-sharing, socializing and more now have new…
The Best Amazon Fire Phone Features You Won’t Get In Any Other Phone
Today, Amazon introduced the long-rumored Fire Phone. It has the killer 3D effects that everyone anticipated. But it also has a few neat features that you won’t see in any…
Amazon’s Shopping Phone Comes With Free Prime Membership For A Year
Amazon has just announced its head-tracking, shopping-focused $199 smartphone, the Fire Phone. And for those who might be wavering about shelling out top dollar (it’s $649 off contract) for a…
Amazon’s Mayday Service On Fire Phone Means It Might Be Able To Sell Its Unique New Features
Amazon has brought Mayday to the Fire Phone, it announced today. The Mayday service offers one-tap access to customer service agents who can talk to phone users via video chat,…
AT&T Will Sell Amazon’s Fire Phone For $199 On A 2 Year Contract
Given that Amazon’s newly announced Fire Phone is largely one gigantic portal for Amazon to sell things (there’s a dedicated hardware button just for recognizing products!), some folks were betting…
Amazon’s Fire Phone Uses Depth And 3D Effects To Stand Out
We’ve been hearing about head-tracking technology on phones for a long time now. Some have ventured into this territory already, with Samsung releasing camera-based head tracking in earlier generations of…
Amazon’s Fire Phone Introduces Firefly, A Feature That Lets You Identify (And Buy!) Things You See In The Real World
With the debut of the Amazon Fire Phone this afternoon, the company introduced a new feature called Firefly, which is largely designed to let you identify — and then, of…
The Cloud Is Key To Amazon Fire Phone’s Ambitious Plan To Win Over Smartphone Photographers
Amazon unveiled its new smartphone today, the Amazon Fire Phone, and the first thing it talked about after going over the design specifics was the camera. Jeff Bezos said that…
Amazon Announces The $199 Fire Phone, The First Smartphone With Head-Tracking Technology
Meet the Fire Phone, Amazon’s first venture into smartphones. At first blush, the phone looks like any other smartphone currently on the market, but it has a secret: the ability…
Amazon’s Smartphone Gets Its First Spy Shots Along With Rumored Specs
Amazon’s smartphone leaks are starting to pile up quickly, and today our own report about some of its 3D features and Android-based FireOS operating system was followed quickly by an…
