We go hands-on with the Amazon Fire Phone, testing the built in app like Firefly and more. Here's our first Fire Phone review.
Few days ago Amazon launched its first smartphone called Fire phone. It has a large amount of exciting features, including 3D-like visual effects and a semantic visual search app that could radically change your weekly shop.
Amazon Fire Phone's build and
design
The Amazon Fire Phone measures 139.2 x 66.5 and is 8.9 mm thick, It have a black slab of glass-covered plastic, according to Amazon. It weighs 160g and has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 on both the front, and the back. There's nothing outstanding about the design and build.
Amazon Fire Phone's specs,
performance, features
The Amazon Fire Phone has a 4.7inch display which is an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, boasting 16M colours. It has a resulotion of 720 x 1280pixels, giving it a pixel with 312ppi. It features a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU with 2GB RAM, the internal storage options is 32GB or 64GB, though there is no storage expansion slot. A built-in Adreno 330 GPU takes care of graphics performance.
It have a network signal of 4G LTE, with GPRS, EDGE, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0(normal bluetooth), NFC and USB connecivity using a microUSB 2.0 port. As for media you get stereo speakers, and a 13Mp camera that can capture 1080p video at 30fps, and there's a front-facing 2.1Mp camera for selfies and video chat.
Also, there are other features, like Dynamic Perspective, Firefly and gesture navigation.
Amazon Fire Phone's Fire OS
The amazon Fire Phone is technically an Android phone and it run Fire OS 3.5.0, but it's based on the Android code base. You can add your favorite apps to the App Grid, although, there are also shortcuts to media such as books magazines, movies, and others.
The Carousel shows your recently used apps, along with a scrollable pane of contextual information.
The camera app has its own shortcut—just single-click the button on the side of the Fire Phone to launch the camera, and then again to take a picture." It has a good-looking interface that takes the best aspects of Android, Note that the Fire Phone cannot access Google Play or install Android apps. Also, it's restricted to Amazon's app-and content stores. That's bad!
Amazon Fire phone's 3D features
The Fire Phone has five cameras on the front —your basic selfie-cam and other four cameras in the corners of the device. Those have wide, 120-degree fields of view and infrared sensors so they can track your head, and by determining the X, Y, and Z axes of your head's location in relation to your phone, simply moving your head also triggers the Dynamic Perspective shift. So you can tilt the phone's camera even when the phone is completely still. It's really neat, Nice one.
But the challenge will be getting third parties to create content that utilise the device. "Amazon built-in several lock screens to really show this off, but the real magic will likely
come when third-party developers leverage this device for their apps. You can control game by tilting your head, and even zoom out to see more of a game level.
It's fun to play with, and produces that pleasant feeling of technology magic, but if you really don't like it, you can switch it off in Settings.
Amazon Fire Phone's gesture and navigation
The Fire Phone has some built-in gestures to let you more easily navigate it with one hand. Give it a quick tilt to the right or the left to pull in menu panes on either side of the screen. (You can also pull them in with your finger.) And if you kind of dip your phone, quickly lowering the top-left corner, that shows you the action menu.
Amazon Fire Phone's Firefly
Firefly is both the main reason for the Fire Phone existence. Firefly has been described as 'Shazam for the real world'. Using Firefly you can scan any hidden codes(e.g barcodes, QRcode...etc) on any product you wish to buy from Amazon.
Scanning barcodes with phones has never been a great experience, you have to open an app that does it, then line up the barcode in a little onscreen box, wait for the camera to refocus itself and lock on to the barcode, and only then is it sent to wherever it's sent to be ID'ed.
"Firefly is better. It can scan gadgets packaging (not only barcodes), CDs, movies, books, QRcodes, email addresses and phone numbers of fliers, URLs and other stuffs. It does this almost instantly, and even getting to the point where you're ready to scan is a simple matter of long-pressing the button on the side of the Fire Phone. It's even got Shazam-like feature that can identify songs and TV shows. It's extremely fast. "And of course, the Fire Phone makes it easy to buy any of that stuff on Amazon, but third-party developers can use Firefly as well, to provide deep links into their apps from the Firefly search results. If you like, You can Firefly a concert ticket on StubHub and also search for songs.
Amazon Fire Phone's price and
availability
You can pre-order the Fire Phone right now, and it will be released on July 25th 2014. The bad news is that this is only for US residents, and Amazon has already said that the phone won't come to the UK. As with the original Kindle Fire, this first-generation smartphone seems to be a US-only product, locked to the AT&T network. Prices range from $199 to $649 depending on your prefered service plan. The price includes a full year of Amazon Prime membership.
Our opinion
Amazon Fire phone is a great handset especially for those that like buying stuffs from Amazon. The phone will ships in July, 2014.
Note:This is not the full reviews of the Amazon Fire phone, We will have the full review as soon as the phone is out.
Few days ago Amazon launched its first smartphone called Fire phone. It has a large amount of exciting features, including 3D-like visual effects and a semantic visual search app that could radically change your weekly shop.
Amazon Fire Phone's build and
design
The Amazon Fire Phone measures 139.2 x 66.5 and is 8.9 mm thick, It have a black slab of glass-covered plastic, according to Amazon. It weighs 160g and has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 on both the front, and the back. There's nothing outstanding about the design and build.
Amazon Fire Phone's specs,
performance, features
The Amazon Fire Phone has a 4.7inch display which is an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, boasting 16M colours. It has a resulotion of 720 x 1280pixels, giving it a pixel with 312ppi. It features a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU with 2GB RAM, the internal storage options is 32GB or 64GB, though there is no storage expansion slot. A built-in Adreno 330 GPU takes care of graphics performance.
It have a network signal of 4G LTE, with GPRS, EDGE, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0(normal bluetooth), NFC and USB connecivity using a microUSB 2.0 port. As for media you get stereo speakers, and a 13Mp camera that can capture 1080p video at 30fps, and there's a front-facing 2.1Mp camera for selfies and video chat.
Also, there are other features, like Dynamic Perspective, Firefly and gesture navigation.
Amazon Fire Phone's Fire OS
The amazon Fire Phone is technically an Android phone and it run Fire OS 3.5.0, but it's based on the Android code base. You can add your favorite apps to the App Grid, although, there are also shortcuts to media such as books magazines, movies, and others.
The Carousel shows your recently used apps, along with a scrollable pane of contextual information.
The camera app has its own shortcut—just single-click the button on the side of the Fire Phone to launch the camera, and then again to take a picture." It has a good-looking interface that takes the best aspects of Android, Note that the Fire Phone cannot access Google Play or install Android apps. Also, it's restricted to Amazon's app-and content stores. That's bad!
Amazon Fire phone's 3D features
The Fire Phone has five cameras on the front —your basic selfie-cam and other four cameras in the corners of the device. Those have wide, 120-degree fields of view and infrared sensors so they can track your head, and by determining the X, Y, and Z axes of your head's location in relation to your phone, simply moving your head also triggers the Dynamic Perspective shift. So you can tilt the phone's camera even when the phone is completely still. It's really neat, Nice one.
But the challenge will be getting third parties to create content that utilise the device. "Amazon built-in several lock screens to really show this off, but the real magic will likely
come when third-party developers leverage this device for their apps. You can control game by tilting your head, and even zoom out to see more of a game level.
It's fun to play with, and produces that pleasant feeling of technology magic, but if you really don't like it, you can switch it off in Settings.
Amazon Fire Phone's gesture and navigation
The Fire Phone has some built-in gestures to let you more easily navigate it with one hand. Give it a quick tilt to the right or the left to pull in menu panes on either side of the screen. (You can also pull them in with your finger.) And if you kind of dip your phone, quickly lowering the top-left corner, that shows you the action menu.
Amazon Fire Phone's Firefly
Firefly is both the main reason for the Fire Phone existence. Firefly has been described as 'Shazam for the real world'. Using Firefly you can scan any hidden codes(e.g barcodes, QRcode...etc) on any product you wish to buy from Amazon.
Scanning barcodes with phones has never been a great experience, you have to open an app that does it, then line up the barcode in a little onscreen box, wait for the camera to refocus itself and lock on to the barcode, and only then is it sent to wherever it's sent to be ID'ed.
"Firefly is better. It can scan gadgets packaging (not only barcodes), CDs, movies, books, QRcodes, email addresses and phone numbers of fliers, URLs and other stuffs. It does this almost instantly, and even getting to the point where you're ready to scan is a simple matter of long-pressing the button on the side of the Fire Phone. It's even got Shazam-like feature that can identify songs and TV shows. It's extremely fast. "And of course, the Fire Phone makes it easy to buy any of that stuff on Amazon, but third-party developers can use Firefly as well, to provide deep links into their apps from the Firefly search results. If you like, You can Firefly a concert ticket on StubHub and also search for songs.
Amazon Fire Phone's price and
availability
You can pre-order the Fire Phone right now, and it will be released on July 25th 2014. The bad news is that this is only for US residents, and Amazon has already said that the phone won't come to the UK. As with the original Kindle Fire, this first-generation smartphone seems to be a US-only product, locked to the AT&T network. Prices range from $199 to $649 depending on your prefered service plan. The price includes a full year of Amazon Prime membership.
Our opinion
Amazon Fire phone is a great handset especially for those that like buying stuffs from Amazon. The phone will ships in July, 2014.
Note:This is not the full reviews of the Amazon Fire phone, We will have the full review as soon as the phone is out.
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