[h=1]Amazon announces it’s 3D Smartphone[/h] June 18, 2014 G.Kishore
Amazon has been getting into hardware lately, what with its Kindle Fire Line of tablets, Fire TV and now the latest, its Smartphone.
Rumors of an Amazon Set-Top box and an Amazon Smartphone had been going around for quite a while now. The first had been fulfilled with Fire TV and Amazon has done the second one too.
Let us start off with some cold hard statistics: There are over Tens of Millions of Prime Subscribers, 500,000 Kindle Ebooks, and over 40, 000 Prime Videos.
Amazon’s Motto: “Patience, Persistence and Obsessive Attention to Detail”. Sounds a lot like Steve Jobs’, doesn’t it?
In this crowded and competitive smartphone landscape, Amazon needed to differentiate.
Yes, Amazon has announced the Fire Phone. It has a Gorilla Glass 3 on the front and the back, aluminium buttons and steel connectors to reduce wobble.
It’s screen is a 4.7 inches HD IPS one, which seems small compared to the behemoth phablets of today, but it really is the perfect size. It has an eye-blinding 590 nits maximum brightness. The screen has dynamic contrast and a circular polarizer.
Underneath is a 2.2 Ghz Quad-Core processor with 2 gigs of RAM.
The camera is 13MP, with OIS (Optical Image Stabilisation, with f/2.0 aperture and a five-element lens assembly.
For easy access to the camera, there is a dedicated button. One press for launching the camera and another for taking the picture. This works even if the device is off.
It comes with unlimited free cloud photo storage on Amazon Cloud Drive.
There are dual-stereo speakers with Dolby Digital Surround Sound, which supposedly sound better.
It will come with “premium” earbuds, which are tangle-free (thankfully).
There is an emphasis on Video, with Second Screen and X-Ray on the phone. X-Ray tells you all the information you need about the movie (if it is supported.).
With Miracast, your phone can be used as a second screen.
ASAP can predict what you may want to see and pre-buffers it, for faster streaming. It grows more accurate with use.
Support for all the major video services is there.
Obviously it supports the recently launched Prime Music service, but it also supports all the major ones.
Amazon announces the Fire Phone, $199 with 2-year contract for 32GB | Ars Technica
There is also a Mayday Button, which is Amazon’s Customer Service that is on 24×7, so that if you are stuck somewhere, a support person can take over and fix it, over the internet.
Then there is Firefly, which can be used to identify items through the Camera and then allow you to purchase them. Similarly it can listen to songs and identify them, along with a way to purchase them. Not only that, Firefly can recognize over a 100 million items.
Amazon has been getting into hardware lately, what with its Kindle Fire Line of tablets, Fire TV and now the latest, its Smartphone.
Rumors of an Amazon Set-Top box and an Amazon Smartphone had been going around for quite a while now. The first had been fulfilled with Fire TV and Amazon has done the second one too.
Let us start off with some cold hard statistics: There are over Tens of Millions of Prime Subscribers, 500,000 Kindle Ebooks, and over 40, 000 Prime Videos.
Amazon’s Motto: “Patience, Persistence and Obsessive Attention to Detail”. Sounds a lot like Steve Jobs’, doesn’t it?
In this crowded and competitive smartphone landscape, Amazon needed to differentiate.
Yes, Amazon has announced the Fire Phone. It has a Gorilla Glass 3 on the front and the back, aluminium buttons and steel connectors to reduce wobble.
It’s screen is a 4.7 inches HD IPS one, which seems small compared to the behemoth phablets of today, but it really is the perfect size. It has an eye-blinding 590 nits maximum brightness. The screen has dynamic contrast and a circular polarizer.
Underneath is a 2.2 Ghz Quad-Core processor with 2 gigs of RAM.
The camera is 13MP, with OIS (Optical Image Stabilisation, with f/2.0 aperture and a five-element lens assembly.
For easy access to the camera, there is a dedicated button. One press for launching the camera and another for taking the picture. This works even if the device is off.
It comes with unlimited free cloud photo storage on Amazon Cloud Drive.
There are dual-stereo speakers with Dolby Digital Surround Sound, which supposedly sound better.
It will come with “premium” earbuds, which are tangle-free (thankfully).
There is an emphasis on Video, with Second Screen and X-Ray on the phone. X-Ray tells you all the information you need about the movie (if it is supported.).
With Miracast, your phone can be used as a second screen.
ASAP can predict what you may want to see and pre-buffers it, for faster streaming. It grows more accurate with use.
Support for all the major video services is there.
Obviously it supports the recently launched Prime Music service, but it also supports all the major ones.
Amazon announces the Fire Phone, $199 with 2-year contract for 32GB | Ars Technica
There is also a Mayday Button, which is Amazon’s Customer Service that is on 24×7, so that if you are stuck somewhere, a support person can take over and fix it, over the internet.
Then there is Firefly, which can be used to identify items through the Camera and then allow you to purchase them. Similarly it can listen to songs and identify them, along with a way to purchase them. Not only that, Firefly can recognize over a 100 million items.
