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Amazon Fire Phone 2 Announced For 2016

December 22, 2014 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

When Amazon announced that it is working on a smartphone, the tech world was more than excited to see how that will turn out to be. Amazon has come up with the best e-readers, the Kindle, so many assumed that their phone will be something completely special. It turned out, the Fire Phone was a total failure, both financially and critically.
Now, the giant online retailer has announced they will return to the phone market, and possibly make up for their past mistakes with the new Amazon Fire Phone 2.

Tech experts are already theorizing about Amazon’s next attempt to matter in the smart mobile devices field. They say there could be two scenarios on how this will turn out. Amazon Fire Phone 2 can be a very successful smartphone or just another flop, like the previous Fire Phone. Others believe that Amazon should quit altogether trying to build smartphones because it’s just not their thing.

One of the reasons the first Amazon smartphone was not warmly received was its price. When it first appeared on the market the Fire Phone cost $649. People were not convinced of its specifications and did not believe the Amazon phone was as good as an iPhone for this price. Two months after the Fire Phone was launched, and following the poor sales, its price dropped to $230 for the unlocked version. Now it can also be bought on contract for only $0.99.
Amazon admitted they made a big mistake setting the price of the phone so high and said that they had different expectations from their first smartphone.

Although the online retailer has not disclosed any information about the design or the price of their new phone, they have made public some details about the Amazon Fire Phone. The phone’s software will include many system updates and they will fix the phone on order to get rid of all the bugs that were on the first Amazon phone.
Amazon also said that the new Fire Phone 2 will have a language update and will be able to translate texts from English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. Amazon Fire Phone 2 is expected to be released somewhere in 2016.
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Who Will Buy The Amazon Fire 3D Smartphone Anyway?

June 19, 2014 By James Faulkner Leave a Comment

The waiting is over. Yesterday, the infamous Amazon 3D smartphone everybody talked about in the last months made its appearance in the hands of Jeff Bezos.

As suspected, the phone has four cameras and features the ability to deliver greater depth perception in maps and pictures, together with the ability of rendering buildings and art in 3D.

As a phone, stripped of its other features (we will talk about immediately), the Amazon Fire 3D smartphone isn’t something to pay for with your life. It sports a 4.7 inch screen with a solid touch screen, a good key board and other features you can find on almost all premium smartphones on the market.

But the Amazon Fire 3D smartphone also sports other qualities and they are the debatable ones. First and foremost, it is similar with the Kindle Fire tablets, allowing users to access pretty much the same apps, videos, games and other perks common to Amazon Prime members. It also comes with the Firefly, a system that makes the Amazon Fire 3D smartphone different, unique and hard to sell to the masses:

Users can press a button and point the phone at an object such as a can of soup or work of art, or direct it to listen to a song. If the device recognizes it, the user can buy it on Amazon, if it’s sold there. The technology, which works by matching images of items or songs to Amazon’s database of over 100 million items, will be opened to app-developers for use, an approach that rivals Apple and Google have taken with their own mobile software.

After seeing the phone, tech specialists divided in almost two distinct categories: the ones whose minds were blown by the deep perspective and the 3D imagery technology, and the ones considering the phone won’t appeal to anybody, except maybe compulsive shoppers:

Meanwhile, Firefly could encourage more purchases. The feature lets you snap bar codes, phone numbers and more. It can even direct you to facts and data, such as a Wikipedia entry with information about a painting you snapped. It listens to songs, TV shows and movies and can pull up extra info like lyrics, actor bios and other information through its IMDb database.

It is hard to conclude right here and now whether or not the Amazon Fire 3D smartphone will be successful. The point is that Jeff Bezos doesn’t hurry anywhere. He acknowledged the fact that he was way behind smartphone rulers like Apple and Samsung, but all he wanted to do was to bring something different into the world. And from this perspective, he did brilliantly. Not to mention that yesterday, Amazon shares went up 2.7 percent to $334.38.

The Amazon Fire 3D smartphone will be an AT&T exclusive starting July 25. If you want a two – years plan, you will have the new handset available starting at $199. If you are already an Amazon Prime member, your deal is sweetened with some added perks (an extra 12 months of membership).

Behold The Might of the New Amazon 3D Smartphone!

June 5, 2014 By Jack M. Robinson Leave a Comment

Some said it would feature six cameras for a unique user’s experience. Some said five cameras, while others marketed the product with only four cameras and a revolutionary eye – tracking technology.

You guessed, we are talking about the much – expected and long – time rumored new Amazon 3D smartphone. It was supposed to show up sometime in September this year, but the waters are stirring in an unexpected direction: we might see the miracle in a few weeks. More exactly, on June 18, during an event Jeff Bezos invited everyone.

What is this all about? Well, it is about a teaser trailer released by Amazon that accompanies an online invitation and registration form to the event we just told you about.

The trailer shows pretty many people getting over – excited while testing a product which remained undisclosed to the viewer’s eyes. Tech journalists placed their bets on the new Amazon 3D smartphone to be the unseen main character of the video and the big surprise guest at Bezos’s show on June 18.

Earlier in April we presented you with a few tech specs of the forthcoming new gadget signed by Amazon, as we received them from BGR and other specialists who got their hands on some photos and inside information. But it’s not the rumored Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the 4.7 inches display, the 720p HD resolution or the powerful Android OS that make this smartphone so obsessively interesting. It’s the glass – free 3D technology that compliments the phone, a technology that has never been used on a smartphone before.

It doesn’t matter how many cameras the smartphone does sport. Be them 4 or 6, the best feature of this phone is that it can make the user actually see in 3D not only the street maps or the wallpapers, but all applications, depending on the viewer’s perspective. The teaser trailer clearly announces something amazing and from the way the users move from one side to the other, changing viewing perspectives, we are inclined to believe that Amazon is really going to unveil the new Amazon 3D smartphone earlier than anybody could have predicted.

However, don’t get too shocked about this. In the light of the recent news (Apple delivering a new OS and plenty of updates, Microsoft delivering new products and innovations, Samsung delivering the world’s first Tizen – powered smartphone), it is clear that Amazon doesn’t want to fall behind its competitors. According to the invitation, anybody can fill out the form and hope to be selected to take part to the event. It looks like Jeff Bezos is so convinced he will shake the world again, he is practically making a show before the show. Let’s all hope our predictions prove true and we will see with our own eyes how Bezos changes the game once again in the tech universe.

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