Amazons new phone

Here's a quick article: http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/18/5819516/meet-the-fire-phone

I am certainly not getting one.

 

I saw this on reddit,

it looks an amazing phone. the features like taking pics of barcode and comparing it to amazon price, pressing the button on the mid left to find out what movie, music, or book you're looking at are cool features. and it supports almost all the lte 4g bands.

looks good phone, I would buy it since I just resell it to someone who would then resell it internationally. :nuts: the amazon price 12 month subscription is a bonus too

 

it has some cool feautures but overall i wouldnt buy it

 

I like the barcode to compare price idea. I just was at best buy googling for amazon prices for bluray shit. Was a bit annoying.

 

I fucking hate the idea, I'd never ever buy it.

Its android with a blown up kiddy looking GUI and a few amazon apps. It comes with forced restrictions from downloading certain apps and you're stuck on their shitty appstore. You'd be 100 times better off buying a stock android phone or CyanogenMod and installing a few amazon apps that are already supported on regular android.

P.S: The scanning barcode idea for amazon products isn't remotely unique, I've had software like this on my devices for 3+ years.

 

It is also different hardware. You can certainly root it and install whatever you want but most people will not.

 

Why not? If Amazon's success with the Kindle range is anything to go by, it will be a great phone. The OS and phone design looks modern, it has 3D capabilities (not sure if the camera can shoot 3D or the display is 3D, I'm still reading it) and there's the bonus of Amazon's great customer service. It's a super high end phone at 1/3 of the price.

Basically all of the most popular apps which are on other devices are on the the Amazon store.

 

Because I just got an S4 and I really don't care all that much about what phone I have.

 

Oh ok If you didn't have an S4 would you consider getting the Amazon phone over it?

 

A shit name for a shit phone. "Fire phone".. Who are they looking to attract? 2nd graders?

 

No because I have Verizon and I believe this is for AT&T only at the moment.

 

Purely an attempt to extend the grasp of Amazon's empire

Not going to get one. Next thing you know, they're gonna be marketing stuff to me on the phone.

Nope nope nope, sticking with the upcoming iPhone 6.

 

That's another reason I wouldn't want it. Not that Google is any better but I trust them more for some reason.

 

Amazon has a known history of putting advertisements in the OS of their products.

Take the Kindle Fire for example. One of the biggest complaints I've seen were the advertisements, for which you had to pay money to make them disappear. Can't remember if it cost a one-time fee or a monthly fee, but regardless of the what it asked, asking any money to take advertisements off a device I already purchased is entirely unacceptable.

I also think a lot of people's mistrust is that while Google is primarily a technology/software company, Amazon is a retailer and is attempting to expand its reaches to all corners of every market it can.