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If you haven’t already pre-ordered your Amazon Fire Phone from Amazon and had it shipped to your doorstep, you can grab yours from a couple of different places as soon as today. You’ll be able to stop into AT&T retail locations nationwide if you’re the type to need to feel a smartphone before you walk away with it.
Like any smartphone by Ma Bell, you’ll be able to grab it for $0 down through AT&T Next so long as you don’t mind paying a monthly balance until you’ve paid the full off-contract price of the phone. The 32GB version can be had for $27.09 per month for 18 months, while the 64GB version steps up to about $31.25. Each option is available under a two-year contract structure, of course, costing $200 and $300, respectively.
Amazon wants to change the way you find information about all the products you come into contact with using the Amazon Fire Phone’s Firefly feature. Whether you want to check prices for a book or CD you come across or you just want to learn more information about a painting or landmark you come across in your travels, Firefly’s expansive database is likely to have all the information you need. Of course, their end goal is to get you to buy as many of those products as you can… with them.
The most interesting thing about Firefly, though, is how developers can hook into it. For instance, if you snap a photo of a poster of Orange is the new Black, Firefly could potentially tap the Amazon app to bring the series up for you to begin watching immediately. It’s pretty interesting stuff that we’re going to get down and dirty with in our full review in the days to come.
Other unique features of the Fire Phone include Dynamic Perspective, an experience powered by four cameras that lets you manipulate your phone by tilting your phone and your head. For instance, scrolling through a web page can be done by simply tilting the phone up or down. The maps app could reveal a different angle of a street depending on which way you tilt your phone. There’s also the usual Amazon goods such as X Ray, Second Screen and that all important Mayday button should you ever need help with the device.
Don’t forget that you’ll be entitled to a free year of Amazon Prime (movies, TV shows, music, book rentals and discounted shipping) and $10 in Amazon Coins to use on apps and games should you buy one. Quite a bit of value if I do say so myself. You can order one from Amazon or AT&T, or just stop into your AT&T store to do your shopping in person. Let us know if you’ll be picking one up!
They want way too much for this phone. I paid $250 less for my Nexus 5.
It’s a niche product, so it won’t sell since people already have better phones than the Fire Phone.
I agree. However this is their first phone and I think they don’t expect it to sell that many. I think they just wanted to get a phone out, and then the next version will be leaps and bounds better. They are testing the market right now.
I think they need to make sure that all of Google’s services are on their devices and then they can feed off of their own app store.
The only thing I like about this phone is the physical home button. When can we get a Pressy 2.0 that coes on the dumb bezel space under most screens?
Haha. I love Amazon for shopping, but the fire phone was a mistake. It is going to bomb. Locking it down on AT&T certainly did not help. Too many gimmicks, not enough simplicity. I think people would have been happier with a specd out beast, that was actually affordable and had a few Amazon only features.
Give it stock Android and call it Nexus?
And priced it around $350, with some Amazon only features, like Prime Instant Video. I dont think people care about gimmicks. It’s cool to show to friends once in awhile. But after a bit of time with the device I bet most people will be wishing they had a normal smartphone that was intuitive, easy to use, and had better battery life.
If this phone came out say 2 years ago, it would’ve been great to compete w/ the S3. Now, it’s just a FB Phone waiting to bomb like you said.
Am I the only one the thinks it looks like a knock off iPhone? Incoming patent war?