“More than seven years after Apple introduced the iPhone, Amazon unveiled the Fire Phone, its first foray into the smartphone market Wednesday at an event in Seattle hosted by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,” The Chicago Tribune reports.
“It has 4.7-inch HD display, a quad-core 2.2GHz processor and 2GB RAM. It also has a 13 megapixel rear-facing camera with f/2.0 lens,” The Trib reports. “The Fire Phone also featuers a rubberized frame, Gorilla Glass on both sides, CNC aluminum buttons. polished button chamfers.”
The Trib reports, “By introducing a handset, Amazon could more directly push access to its online store, or digital content like music, movies and games, to consumers.”
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“As expected, the device features the much rumored a 3D display,” Chance Miller reports for 9to5Mac. “Amazon released a video teasing the ‘amazing’ device earlier this month, showing customers reacting to the 3D display and how it moved with them. It remains to be seen how many people want a phone with a 3D display, however, especially with previous 3D Android devices never catching on.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Meh. Seven years for that?
So, who can’t wait to trade over 1.5 million apps for 23 that have been ported from iOS to yet another forked Android device?
Hello? Anybody? Pfft.
Just like Google, Amazon is focused on selling other things (content and products for Amazon, ads for Google), not on delighting the user.
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