Amazon FIRE PHONE

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Amazon to unveil its smartphone on June 18th
http://www.neowin.net/news/amazon-to-unveil-its-smartphone-on-june-18th


Amazon, the king of online shopping, has been slowly entering the hardware markets over the past few years. With tablets and a set-top box, they are no stranger to perfecting hardware supply chains.
So, with an event scheduled for June 18th, Amazon is gearing up to release its smartphone and here is what we know about the device based on previous rumors.
The phone is rumored to have 5, yes 5 front facing cameras, can be seen in the image above and there is a camera on the back of the device too.
The cameras are located in each of the corners and you can clearly see them in the image above and one in the center of the device for video calls. The corner cameras are supposedly to help out with the 3D visual effects that will be the crowning feature of the device.
The black plastic cladding you see on the device is a protective shell and once removed, the phone looks like many other modern smartphones. The device pictured is one of two devices the company will reportedly launch in the very near future; the above device will be a higher end model the device not pictured will be a lower-end model.
The higher end device is said to have a 4.7in screen with a 720P display and will be run by a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU. But the real features will be the glasses-free 3D interface that utilizes the multiple front cameras to create the effects.
The corner cameras are infrared cameras that can track your face and eyes so that the display can adjust to the location of your eyes to create the best visual effects.
 
I had a glasses free 3D phone a few years ago, the Evo 3D on sprint but this sounds like they are doing more than that phone did.
 
Amazon Unveils Long-Awaited Fire Phone
http://time.com/2895275/amazon-fire-phone/
specs are very good ATT only


Amazon announced its first smartphone today, a bold move into a sector currently dominated by Apple and Samsung. At an event in Seattle, CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Fire Phone, a smartphone with a 4.7-inch 3D display, a 2.2 GHz quad-core processor, a 13 megapixel rear-facing camera and 2 GB of RAM.

The device, which has a heavy focus on multimedia, will offer unlimited photo storage and a dedicated button to launch the camera app. It will be sold exclusively on AT&T’s network at a price of $199 for a 32GB version with a two-year contract or $299 for a 64GB version. Amazon is also throwing in a free year of Amazon Prime, its customer loyalty program (existing Prime members will get a bonus year tacked onto their current Prime subscription).
The device is currently available for pre-order on Amazon’s website and will begin shipping on July 25.

The new phone is designed to be tightly integrated with Amazon’s myriad services. The company’s Instant Video service will be preinstalled on the device, as will Amazon’s newly launched music streaming service. The phone will also come with a new program called Firefly, which allows people to scan objects, songs and TV shows (sort of like an all-purpose Shazam app) so that Amazon can identify them and offer a way to purchase them from its store. In total Firefly can recognize 100 million items, Bezos said. “Fire Phone puts everything you love about Amazon in the palm of your hand,” he said in a press release.
The phone’s 3D capabilities are its most unique feature. Through a technology dubbed “Dynamic Perspective,” the Fire Phone uses four cameras placed on its front face to track a person’s head movements at all times. This allows the phone offer a real-time 3D-like display that presents more depth to images than a typical smartphone screen. During the event, Bezos demonstrated the phone’s map app, which showed looming skyscrapers leaping off the screen, as well as an app that allowed the user to sort through dresses as if they in an actual 3D space. The phone’s motion sensors allow users to scroll within certain apps by tilting the device rather than touching the screen.

Like the Kindle, the Fire Phone will run on a modified version of Android and support some apps native to Google’s operating system. Popular apps such as Instagram, Facebook, Netflix, ESPN and HBO Go should be available for the device when it launches. Amazon has also released development tools to allow companies to make apps that make use of Dynamic Perspective and Firely.

The device demonstrates Amazon’s growing interest in creating hardware. In addition to its popular line of Kindle e-readers and tablets, the company released its first set-top-box, the Amazon Fire TV, earlier this year. The company has always been reticent to disclose just how successful its hardware ventures are—Bezos said today that there are “tens of millions” of Kindle owners, and there’s no real data on Fire TV sales—but smartphone sales dwarf those other sectors. More than a billion smartphones were shipped globally in 2013, with Samsung and Apple controlling nearly half the market between them.
Amazon fill face an uphill battle taking on those two giants, but the company has a history of eschewing profits to smother competitors in other markets. They may be embarking on a similar strategy today—the 32 GB version of the Fire Phone, for instance, will sell for $100 less than a similar model of the iPhone 5S.
 
§D is cool, but probably the novelty will wear out in a week or so.

So, gathering what I read, Amazon basically wanted to create a phone, that make it easier for Amazon to know what you want, & eaier for you to buy something on Amazon.

Jesus, we need to stop our GF/Wives seeing this!
 
Maybe it'll become cheaper as the time goes by. Isn't this the first time Amazon has ever done with the phone?
 
I saw the commercial and it seemed like a cool phone. I don't know though. I'm happy with my HTC One M8. :)
 
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