Amazon today launched its first ever smartphone called the Fire Phone. The smartphone will be available in the US from July 25 onward exclusively on AT&T starting from $199 for a two-year contract for the 32GB version or $649 for the contract free device.
The Fire Phone comes with 4.7-inch 720p display with a pixel density of 315ppi and is powered by a 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, paired with Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM.
Fire Phone is equipped with 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 lens and optical image stabilization, 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera, 32GB/64GB internal storage, and a 2,400mAh battery, which the company claims is good enough to survive 22 hours of talktime and up to 285 hours on standby mode.
Amazon is offering unlimited cloud storage on Amazon Cloud Drive for photos clicked from the phone, which means you would never have to delete any photo again. At 590nits, Amazon says the display is bright enough for the user to be able to see it while wearing sunglasses and the phone is under direct sunlight.
The smartphone features aluminum buttons, chamfered edges and injection-molded connectors. The device is 139.2mm in length, 66.5mm in width and 8.9mm in thickness. It weighs in at 160 grams.
Fire phone runs on Fire OS 3.5, which is basically a forked version of Android and doesn’t come with Google Mobile Services suite. The overall UI theme boasts three panels, with the first panel meant for navigation, the second for your primary content and the third panel for things like song lyrics, etc.
The USP of the Fire Phone is the 3D Dynamic Perspective UI. The device basically has four wide angle cameras on the front, which continuously track the user’s head in relation to the phone’s display.
The tracking is done in real time, and cameras refresh multiple times every second. They take the two best views available at any time to get the stereoscopic 3D look. The four cameras also have an infrared light so it can work in the dark as well. So in practice, you can check out landmarks in the Maps from different perspectives or tilt your phone to open up hidden navigation menus. You can also tilt the phone to scroll web pages, among other things.
One of the biggest features after the 3D Dynamic Perspective UI is the Firefly button, which can essentially recognize over 100 million items including objects, games, music, video and much more. It is part shopping list generator and part OCR reader. It recognizes objects and text from the camera’s viewfinder.
Amazon also announced a host of other features with the Fire Phone like the X-Ray, which gives you instant information on what you are watching, Prime Music, Amazon’s Immersion Reading, and WhisperSync for Voice. Additionally, the company also announced a service called MayDay, which is a 24-hour customer service that will help you with any issues on your device.
The Amazon Fire Phone is currently only available in the US, that too on AT&T. There is no word on whether it would launch the phone in India or any other country any time soon.
via BGR India
Fire Phone is equipped with 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 lens and optical image stabilization, 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera, 32GB/64GB internal storage, and a 2,400mAh battery, which the company claims is good enough to survive 22 hours of talktime and up to 285 hours on standby mode.
Amazon is offering unlimited cloud storage on Amazon Cloud Drive for photos clicked from the phone, which means you would never have to delete any photo again. At 590nits, Amazon says the display is bright enough for the user to be able to see it while wearing sunglasses and the phone is under direct sunlight.
Fire phone runs on Fire OS 3.5, which is basically a forked version of Android and doesn’t come with Google Mobile Services suite. The overall UI theme boasts three panels, with the first panel meant for navigation, the second for your primary content and the third panel for things like song lyrics, etc.
The USP of the Fire Phone is the 3D Dynamic Perspective UI. The device basically has four wide angle cameras on the front, which continuously track the user’s head in relation to the phone’s display.
The tracking is done in real time, and cameras refresh multiple times every second. They take the two best views available at any time to get the stereoscopic 3D look. The four cameras also have an infrared light so it can work in the dark as well. So in practice, you can check out landmarks in the Maps from different perspectives or tilt your phone to open up hidden navigation menus. You can also tilt the phone to scroll web pages, among other things.
Amazon also announced a host of other features with the Fire Phone like the X-Ray, which gives you instant information on what you are watching, Prime Music, Amazon’s Immersion Reading, and WhisperSync for Voice. Additionally, the company also announced a service called MayDay, which is a 24-hour customer service that will help you with any issues on your device.
The Amazon Fire Phone is currently only available in the US, that too on AT&T. There is no word on whether it would launch the phone in India or any other country any time soon.
via BGR India
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