Hands On with Amazon's Fire Phone for AT&T
Interesting but not for me
I would think that anyone who prefers a Kindle Fire over a more traditional Android tablet would absolutely love this phone.
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I think this is a bridge too far for Amazon. This may appeal to a niche market, but I can't envision enough sales to justify the investment. Phone geeks will want something close to pure Android as possible, iOS people will stick with iPhone, this seems to be the worst of all worlds. But, maybe Amazon is only looking to make a marginal expansion with a focus on buying other products. Anyway, Jeff is maga-rich and I am not so it will be interesting to see how this goes.
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this will end soon sad to say
there's nothing fancy about it
this OS is based of Android.
no appts
this phone has to be revolutionary otherwise, just a paperweight
there's nothing fancy about it
this OS is based of Android.
no appts
this phone has to be revolutionary otherwise, just a paperweight
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and disagree. I felt the same way you do about the Kindle Fire, but it is an immensely popular tablet. All of those Kindle Fire customers are potential and easy targets for this device. The only thing I can see that Amazon did wrong was in signing the exclusivity contract with ATT. If anything is going to kill this product, it will be that.
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at&t exclusivity didn't hurt the iPhone, and the at&t network was in a much worse condition in 2007 then it is today. Today, at&t's network has improved so much that one rarely hears the 'dropped calls' jokes that used to be ubiquitous only 3 years ago. And being exclusive with at&t is certainly a better bet than Palm's exclusive deal with Sprint for the Palm Pre, THAT was a disaster. If Palm had signed an exclusive with at&t instead of Sprint, they might still be in business.
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The Palm Pre was just a disaster to begin with. Choosing Sprint was just one more issue they had with those latest Palm phones. It was a good idea for the OS, but it was poorly executed. They never did anything with it while it was available as well. My brother in law had the Palm Pre, it would continuously have this problem of not turning on and you had to connect it to a computer and use their software to boot the phone up when it had the issue. It would freeze constantly, even after multiple replacements. He finally snapped at Sprint to give him a different phone because it had continuous issues.
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You forgot about one vital demographic: the 60%+ of cell phone users who are still using basic feature phones, but might be interested in a smartphone if it didn't seem intimidating. The fact that it bears the 'Kindle' name means that a lot of people who find other smartphones 'too complicated' but who own a Kindle, will likely be interested. This is especially true of the 60 and over crowd. I predict that non-techies who afraid of other smartphones are likely to gravitate to this product. My 60 year old mother finds Android intimidating, but she loves her Kindle. These are the kind of people who might be interested.
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