Amazon Fire Phone Review: Unique Features that give it an Edge over the other Smartphones

In a business world ruled by Apple and Samsung, it is easy to wonder what Amazon was thinking launching yet another Smartphone into an already saturated market – the new Amazon Fire phone. Once you see where Amazon is coming from, you will understand why the launch of the Fire phone is one of their greatest marketing strategies yet.

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Best known for its online shopping center, Amazon controls a worldwide network of warehouses making it the biggest online retailer on the planet. It therefore goes without saying that their main goal would be to improve their customers’ shopping experience. And that is the angle they took when they were developing the fire Smartphone; give shoppers an ultimate shopping experience though dynamite interfaces across different platforms. The Smartphone delivered all that in a way that is sure to shake business and change how marketing and selling is done forever.
“What we saw was an opportunity to prove some new capabilities that really hadn’t been done before in premium smartphones,” says Ian Freed, Amazon’s vice-president for the Fire phone. “We’ve seen innovation stagnate a bit over the past two to three years.”
The phone implements a 3D display that utilizes four infrared Polaroids pointed at your face to help judge whether you’re looking at the screen straight-on, at an edge or even how far from the screen your face is. The phone can then adjust the picture as needs be. It also tracks your head movement and turns games or maps in accordance with how you are looking at them. You are therefore provided with the capability of seeing the profundity in pictures, ability to see around items in the closer view, to zoom in for a finer look, as well as flip through sites, books and menus.

It also makes use of firefly, a function with a dedicated button that allows the user to point the phone’s Polaroid at anything from book blankets, Cds, Dvds, tunes, films, foodstuff things, telephone numbers to sites and pull information on the product.  Firefly brings what’s known as expanded actuality to life by transforming your phone into a compelling device that perceives and extracts the pulled information, saves it, or allows the online navigation to the item page on Amazon so you can easily purchase it.

For Amazon, the best thing about this feature is that it takes value correlation shopping to another level in that whatever you see while shopping anywhere can get a moment value check in a single click. The phone, according to Amazon, can perceive more than a hundred million items or products. Furthermore, you can make a purchase in a few clicks if you connect the device with your credit card information.

These game changing properties of the fire phone give the fire phone a well deserved edge over Apple’s iphone and Samsung’s Galaxy line of gadgets in the retail marketplace. See how the Amazon fire phone compares to Apple’s iphone 5S and how it compares to Samsung Galaxy S5 at the bottom of this post.

Amazon Fire phone begins with a 32gb model that offers for $199 on a two-year contract through At&t, the main US carrier offering the gadget. Without a contract, the phone goes for $649.
Unique Features in the Amazon Fire Phone

Dynamic perspective

A hand crafted sensor framework that reacts to how you hold, view, and move your telephone.

Amazon’s Dynamic Perspective is fueled by a system of eye-following tech that works by identifying where your head is at all times to ensure that you’re getting the best perspective of whatever it is you’re viewing.

Getting this all working utilizes a whopping four Polaroids, one on each one corner, with an infrared red light, for night vision. Amazon gathered a large number of pictures of appearances from far and wide to advance the equipment’s capability to track movement and eyeballs thus drawing the dynamic perspective of the Smartphone.

  • Immersive apps and games

You can peek in maps to see Yelp ratings. In StubHub stadium view, you are able to look 90 degrees to the right and left of your seat, just like you’re actually there, looking around. And in games, like Lili,  you can take on the character’s viewpoint, moving your head to look around corners, over obstacles, and around other objects

  • One-handed short cuts

Have easy access to menus, shortcuts, and other useful information with tilt, peek, and swivel.

  • One-handed reading

With the auto-scroll, you can scan long web pages or even read entire books on your phone without ever having to touch the screen.

Firefly Technology

  •  Simply press the dedicated Firefly button to instantly identify and extract printed text from posters, magazines, books, and business cards. This allows you to easily make calls, save contacts, visit websites and send emails without typing the addresses.
  • It recognizes over 240,000 movies, TV episodes, and 160 live TV channels. It uses X-Ray, powered by IMDb, to show you information on actors, characters and plot details, and other related content.
  • Firefly recognizes songs helping you can access artist information, other related songs, and allows you to download albums direct to your Fire phone, purchase them immediately or add them to your Wish List for later.
  • It also recognizes household items, DVDs, books, video games, and more. You can access product details, or even order them on Amazon direct from your Fire phone.

Mayday

This award winning customer service gives you access to an Amazon expert at the hit of a button. The tech experts can help you via online video through any feature by either drawing on your screen, walking you through the problem or fixing it for you.

Advanced Camera system

Amazon fire phone comes featured with a 13 megapixel camera system with optical Image Stabilization, stunning 1080p video from both the front and the rear facing cameras, plus free unlimited photo storage in the cloud.All said, though it’s difficult to compare Amazon fire phone to it’s predecessors, iphone 5S and Samsung Galaxy S5, it sure does give them a run for their money with it’s uniqueness.  The smartphone brings out a different feel to a smartphone, setting a trend onto which future gadgets will be built. It is indeed very unique in it’s own interesting way.

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The Amazon Fire Phone Review

The Amazon fire phone is the only smartphone with two new technologies, Dynamic Perspective and Firefly, that lets you interact with the world through a whole new lens.

The Dynamic Perspective uses the best custom-designed sensor system, enabling it to respond to how you hold, view or move the phone. This allows the smartphone to implement a new class of impressive and immersive apps and games not available on other smartphones. Auto scroll and one-handed navigation becomes possible allowing you to read books and long web pages without touching the screen.
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 Firefly on the other hand is a new technology that works by recognizing printed material in seconds making it easy to discover and share information with friends. It can read web and email addresses, bar codes, music, phone numbers, artwork, and even movies easily. You just need to simply press and hold the Firefly button.
Amazon Fire phone is the only smartphone able to put everything you love about Amazon in your hand. You get instant access to apps, games, over 33 million songs,  movies, magazines, TV shows, audiobooks, and books, as well as exclusive features like Mayday, X-Ray, Second Screen, free unlimited photo storage in the cloud, ASAP, and more.
It’s also comes packed with powerful hardware: a 2.2 GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, a 13MP camera with optical image stabilization, 1080p HD video, a beautiful 4.7″ HD display, Dolby Digital audio, and dual stereo speakers.
The phone will be released on the 25th, July 2014, but you can pre-order your Amazon Fire Smartphone today. For a limited time, Fire smartphone comes with a full year of Amazon Prime, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of items, unlimited downloading and ad-free streaming of hundreds of playlists and over a million songs, and over 500,000 books to borrow from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.
Prime member have not been left out, Amazon will add 12 months to their existing account.
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Amazon Fire Phone Vs. Samsung Galaxy S5
Amazon Fire Phone
Samsung Galaxy S5
Screen size
4.7-inch IPS LCD HD
 5.1 inches
Dimensions
5.5 x 2.6 x 0.3 inches; 5.6 oz.
5.5 x 2.9 x 0.3 inches; 5 oz.
Resolution
1,280 x 720
1,920 x 1,080
Weight
5.64 ounces
5.11 ounces
Mobile Operating System
Fire OS 3.5.0 (Android),
Android KitKat (4.4)
Processor
2.2GHz quad-core processor, Snapdragon 800
2.5GHz Quad core application processor, Snapdragon 801
Camera
Rear, 13-megapixel; 1080p full HD video
Front, 2.1-megapixel; 1080p full HD video
 Rear, 16-megapixel, 4K HD video
Front, 2-megapixel; 1080p full HD video
Storage Capacity
32, 64GB
 16, 32GB + microSD slot (up to 128GB)
Expandable Memory
No
Expandable up to 128GB
Bluetooth
v3.0
v4.0
Wifi
802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GH and 5GHz)
802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 and 5 GHz)
Battery life
Talk time: Up to 22 hours, online: up to 11 hours, standby time: up to 12 days
Talk time: Up to 29 hours,
standby time: up to 20 days
NFC
Yes
Yes
4G LTE
Yes
Yes
Other Sensors
3Dynamic Perspective sensor system with invisible infrared illumination, gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, barometer, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor
Accelerometer, Gyro, Proximity, Compass, Barometer, Hall, RGB ambient light, Gesture, Fingerprint, Heart Rate Sensor
Colours Available
Black
Black, white, blue, and copper
Price
$199 (32GB),
$299.99 (64GB),
$27/month for 24 months, $649(32Gb, unlocked)
$199.99 (AT&T, US Cellular, Verizon) $27/month for 24 months (Sprint),
$27.50/month for 24 months (T-Mobile),
$649 (MetroPCS)
Carriers
AT&T
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, US Cellular, Metro PCS
Buy Now
Amazon Fire Phone
Samsung Galaxy S5

Amazon Fire Phone Vs. HTC One m8
Amazon Fire Phone
HTC One m8
Screen size
4.7-inch IPS LCD HD
5 inches
Dimensions
5.5 x 2.6 x 0.3 inches; 5.6 oz.
 5.76″ x 2.78″ x 0.37″
Resolution
1,280 x 720
1080 x 1920
Weight
5.64 ounces
 5.64 ounces
Mobile Operating System
Fire OS 3.5.0 (Android),
Android KitKat (4.4)
Processor
2.2GHz quad-core processor, Snapdragon 800
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core 2.3GHz processor
Camera
Rear, 13-megapixel; 1080p full HD video
Front, 2.1-megapixel; 1080p full HD video
4MP rear, 5MP front
Storage Capacity
32, 64GB
16, 32GB + microSD slot (up to 128GB)
Expandable Memory
No
Bluetooth
v3.0
Wifi
802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GH and 5GHz)
Battery life
Talk time: Up to 22 hours, online: up to 11 hours, standby time: up to 12 days
Up to 20 hours talk time
NFC
Yes
4G LTE
Yes
Other Sensors
3Dynamic Perspective sensor system with invisible infrared illumination, gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, barometer, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor
Accelerometer, Gyro, Proximity, Compass, Barometer
Colours Available
Black
Price
$199 (32GB),
$299.99 (64GB),
$27/month for 24 months, $649(32Gb, unlocked)
$199.99 (AT&T, Sprint, Verizon)
Carriers
AT&T
AT&T, Verizon and T-mobile
Buy Now
Amazon Fire Phone
HTC One m8

Amazon Fire Phone Vs. Apple iphone 5S
Amazon Fire Phone
Apple iphone 5S
Screen size
4.7-inch IPS LCD HD
 4-inch Retina display
Dimensions
5.5 x 2.6 x 0.3 inches; 5.6 oz.
4.87 x 2.31 x 0.3 inches; 3.95 oz.
Resolution
1,280 x 720
 1,136 x 640
Weight
5.64 ounces
 3.95 ounces
Mobile Operating System
Fire OS 3.5.0 (Android),
 iOS 7.1
Processor
2.2GHz quad-core processor, Snapdragon 800
A7 chip with 64-bit architecture with M7 motion processor
Camera
Rear, 13-megapixel; 1080p full HD video
Front, 2.1-megapixel; 1080p full HD video
Rear, 8-megapixel with 1.5µ pixels, 1080p full HD video
Front, 1.2-megapixel camera; 720p HD video
Storage Capacity
32, 64GB,
16, 32, 64GB
Expandable Memory
No
No
Bluetooth
v3.0
v4.0
Wifi
802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GH and 5GHz)
802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GH and 5GHz)
Battery life
Talk time: Up to 22 hours, online: up to 11 hours, standby time: up to 12 days
Talk time: Up to 10 hours
Online: up to 10 hours on 4G LTE
standby time: up to 10 days
NFC
Yes
No
4G LTE
Yes
Yes
Other Sensors
3Dynamic Perspective sensor system with invisible infrared illumination, gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, barometer, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor
Three-axis gyro, Accelerometer, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor, Fingerprint identity sensor
Colours Available
Black
Gray, white, gold
Price
$199 (32GB),
$299.99 (64GB),
$27/month for 24 months, $649(32Gb, unlocked)
$199 (16GB),
$299(32GB),
$399(64GB)
Carriers
AT&T
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile
Buy Now
Amazon Fire Phone
Apple iphone 5S

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