Amazon reveal their debut Smartphone - "Amazon Fire"

whirlpool

View the phone in use here: http://goo.gl/bhGDZy

4.7" HD LCD display
13 MP rear-facing camera
2.1 MP front-facing camera
32 GB or 64 GB
Tilt, auto-scroll, swivel, and peek to navigate menus and access shortcuts with one hand.
1080p HD video recording at 30 fps (front- and rear-facing cameras)
Dual stereo speakers with Dolby Digital Plus
802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi, up to 300 Mbps with channel bonding; Bluetooth 3.0 wireless technology; NFC enabled
Micro USB 2.0
3.5mm headphone
Nano SIM card
5.64 ounces (160 grams)
5.5" x 2.6" x 0.35" (139.2mm x 66.5mm x 8.9mm)

Frosty McSnowballs

No snake?

That's bollox

Y2KBOS86

Doesn't even have a full HD screen.

whirlpool

Y2KBOS86 wrote: »

Doesn't even have a full HD screen.

iPhones have never even had a regular HD screen, never mind a full HD screen, so I'm not sure too many people will be bothered given the popularity of iPhones. Maybe Amazon were trying to keep costs down.

Stainless_Steel

Eh... very dark photos but the design looks like an iphone 5 rip off.

dxhound2005

There is more than one mobile phone for every man woman and child in the country already. And apparently nobody has any money due to austerity. So I can't see any of them being sold here.

B.A._Baracus

Got to love the video that pops up. Paid actors pretending to be 'regular people' :pac:
But $199 to $649.99 is pricey. Too much for a phone in my opinion. It's akin to walking around with a €500 euro hanging out of your pocket for everyone to see.

whirlpool

I can't see it being popular here purely because it doesn't look very nice, aesthetically. It's so basic and cheap looking, and neither the spec nor the gimmicks are good enough.

Y2KBOS86

whirlpool wrote: »

iPhones have never even had a regular HD screen, never mind a full HD screen, so I'm not sure too many people will be bothered given the popularity of iPhones. Maybe Amazon were trying to keep costs down.

Its an android phone, its competing against the best Sony, Samsung, LG, HTC etc have to offer.

For the price it should be Full HD, what's the point of snapdragon CPU and 330 GPU if its using screen tech from 2 years ago?

Nexus 5 is cheaper and more powerful and its out nearly a year now

whirlpool

Y2KBOS86 wrote: »

Its an android phone, its competing against the best Sony, Samsung, LG, HTC etc have to offer.

For the price it should be Full HD, what's the point of snapdragon CPU and 330 GPU if its using screen tech from 2 years ago?

Nexus 5 is cheaper and more powerful and its out nearly a year now

You'll have to ask Amazon that.

My point was merely that phones evidently don't need Full HD in order to sell well.

The Diabolical Monocle

This tilt/sideboob thing is indeed fairly impressive.

It gets a 'hey thats pretty cool'.

However on youtube they seem to be foaming at the mouth over it while masturbating fervently.

the other 90% of the phone - you can have pretty much all that in a Chinese import for 100 euro.

I'd pay up to 200 max, if I wanted it.

Peregrine

Y2KBOS86 wrote: »

Its an android phone

Is it really though?

Karl Stein

Pfff.. back in the day we used to make our own phones.

We'd get two empty washed yoghurt pots, make a little hole in the bottom of each pot with a needle, feed each end of the 20/30 meter length of fishing line through each pot and tie a knot so it wouldn't pull back through. When you and your brother/sis/friend pulled the line taught you could whisper into your pot and the person at the other end could hear you loud and clear from his 20/30 meters away.



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groovie

Karl Stein wrote: »

Pfff.. back in the day we used to make our own phones.

We'd get two empty washed yoghurt pots, make a little hole in the bottom of each pot with a needle, feed each end of the 20/30 meter length of fishing line through each pot and tie a knot so it wouldn't pull back through. When you and your brother/sis/friend pulled the line taught you could whisper into your pot and the person at the other end could hear you loud and clear from his 20/30 meters away.



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No free roaming with those though.

fleet_admiral

Rumours of a 3d camera too

kneemos

Karl Stein wrote: »

Pfff.. back in the day we used to make our own phones.

We'd get two empty washed yoghurt pots, make a little hole in the bottom of each pot with a needle, feed each end of the 20/30 meter length of fishing line through each pot and tie a knot so it wouldn't pull back through. When you and your brother/sis/friend pulled the line taught you could whisper into your pot and the person at the other end could hear you loud and clear from his 20/30 meters away.



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At least the NSA weren't listening.

Frank Lee Midere

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Rumours of a 3d camera too

Rumours? It's been released.

beno619

Y2KBOS86 wrote: »

Its an android phone, its competing against the best Sony, Samsung, LG, HTC etc have to offer.

For the price it should be Full HD, what's the point of snapdragon CPU and 330 GPU if its using screen tech from 2 years ago?

Nexus 5 is cheaper and more powerful and its out nearly a year now

Performance will be fantastic for one.

beno619

Y2KBOS86 wrote: »

Its an android phone, its competing against the best Sony, Samsung, LG, HTC etc have to offer.

For the price it should be Full HD, what's the point of snapdragon CPU and 330 GPU if its using screen tech from 2 years ago?

Nexus 5 is cheaper and more powerful and its out nearly a year now

Performance will be fantastic for one.

Banjo String

beno619 wrote: »

Performance will be fantastic for one.

beno619 wrote: »

Performance will be fantastic for one +1.

fyp

KungPao

Yawn. A few years too late really. Samsung and Apple have the market, this Amazon phone will probably bomb.

jimgoose

Nice bit of kit, but the competition is stiff I don't think it offers a good reason to stray from Samsung/HTC/Sony.

Wibbs

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Got to love the video that pops up. Paid actors pretending to be 'regular people' :pac:

The types they wheeled on to advertise it would put me off straight away.