Finally and after much anticipation (more than two years of rumors) Amazon has been encouraged to present its first smartphone under the name of Fire Phone. At first it was believed that the new terminal would be a rival to the iPhone since it would offer a good smartphone at a great price. The point is that this is not the case and the terminal has been announced by $ 649 with 32GB of storage and $ 749 with 64GB of storage. Once you read this, you already know that Amazon has no plans to take the world of smartphones ahead, far from it.
Going into the specs, this is a great terminal. Among its highlights we value a screen of 4.7 inch HD with Gorilla Glass 3. The screen also features 590 nits of brightness and a high degree of contrast to help you with viewing during the day. Highlighting its most striking characteristics, we continue with the autonomy, which in this case is quite good. Specifically according to Amazon the Fire Phone offers us 11 hours of video playback y 22 hours of conversation, more than good figures for the current panorama.
The computer processor is quad core and runs at 2.2 GHz, has 2 GB of RAM and implements a main camera of 13 megapixels with an aperture of f / 2.0, video recording in Full HD and optical image stabilizer. As a highlight in the photographic section, Amazon will offer its customers free online photo storage, something that is interesting for those who take hundreds of photos regularly.
Obviously it is a terminal with support for global LTE connectivity and for audio it has Virtual Dolby Digital Plus to hear your music and videos more clearly. Another interesting point of the terminal is the integration of the Mayday service. Mayday is a service that Amazon debuted with its latest tablets and that allows you to call the technical service of the house by videoconference and have it solve any questions or problems you may have with your terminal.
As to rumored 3D effect, the terminal will effectively have four front cameras which will act as sensors. With these sensors the Fire Phone will be able to offer us a "parallax" effect very similar to 3D and it will allow us to navigate through the terminal using only our eyes or our gestures, something like the technology that Samsung presented with its Galaxy S4 and that practically no one uses since in the long run it is uncomfortable at least.
At the same time, another novelty that comes to us from the Fire Phone is the integration of a new functionality that bears the name of FireFly. This functionality that has a dedicated physical button consists of using the Fire Phone camera to recognize all kinds of products. Specifically, you can examine QR codes, barcodes, DVDs, CDs, games, URLs and even music with the terminal. This recognition scans more than 100 million products and if it is available on Amazon the product offers you the option to buy or download it.
This last functionality seems great to me and a great idea on the part of Amazon to monetize its users. However, considering the price of the equipment, it is unlikely that this functionality will achieve wide adoption. Personally I would have put the smartphone in a range of 200 to 300 dollars / euros I remove the unnecessary 3D effect, I keep the rest of the specifications as well as the FireFly button. Even if the company sold the terminal at cost price, it would earn a lot of money in the sale of products through its store since the terminal would reach a much wider audience than a $ 649 terminal can reach for a company that does not have Experience in the sector.
It is clear by now that the Fire Phone will hardly compete with the top of the Android range, much less with Apple's iPhones. And it is that, although it is in the same price range, it is very difficult to believe that Amazon is going to be successful with this proposal. But hey, you never know, it's still a mass success, right?
Old man, although we are on a page aimed at fully surrendering to the religion Apple I think the comment is wrong where you say that it does not compete because it has a high price when the range is from $ 199 to $ 299 per contract and according to capacity as is Apple does it, the high price is if you want it free to all operators, just as Apple does, so if it is competitive.
Impartial web? Not at all… ..good way to plague a terminal that eats up power and some features on any iPhone.
You are shitting it in an amazing way with your patent fanboyism in many of the news to Apple. This doesn't seem normal to me anymore. But what do you say that it can't compete if it has, as you well mentioned, some fucking good technical specifications?
I am a user of MacBook Pro (2011 range), iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone 4S and currently iPhone 5S, and I may like a thousand things about Apple, but forgive me for telling you, Apple is very behind in many sections with respect to the others companies. An example is the absence of NFC, with which you speculate that it can be integrated into the iPhone 6, as if it were a hyper novelty; or with many of the features of iOS 8. What Apple has done in most of iOS 8 is to catch up with other companies, something that already had to do. And the iPhone is very good in many sections, but that you make this news with such a degree of fanboy I find it worrying, or that Apple will pay you for saying this, please. Can't you recognize things?
Let's see if we renew our staff of reporters but let them write saying the good and the bad, like some, not leaving Apple through the roof, as if the iPhone was fucking better than many Android devices or the Amazon terminal. FAIRNESS AND LESS WRITER FANBOY, THANK YOU.
Ah, the article, pathetic. A list of specifications that can be obtained anywhere, but still appreciated to collect, and a detriment to the terminal that has fabric.
"Technology that Samsung introduced with its Galaxy S4 and that practically no one uses since in the long run it is uncomfortable to say the least"
Take it easy! It is not to give you the opposite but I do use it and it is very useful especially when you are lying down so you avoid dropping the smartphone on your face. Or even when your hands are full, you ask SVoice to do a search for you and with the gestures you scroll. So do not generalize on something that you have no idea, I hope and read it iHater !! Anti-samsung.
hahahaha how funny these people are, THE PAGE IS CALLED ACTUALIDADIPHONE!!! If you want impartiality, go to a page called technology or something like that, OBVIOUSLY there is favoritism for Apple products, are they retarded or what? For God's sake... These Apple haters who come to screw around on Apple pages either get paid by Samsung (which has been proven, and would at least make sense) or they simply don't have anything better to do with their lives.
Hello, despite the other mostly negative comments, I must say that you are partly right since this terminal has many technical specifications from a year ago and the price it offers is very similar to that of a current terminal (high-end).
And in case you don't notice, the name of this blog is ACTUALIDAD IPHONE, which is why it is supposedly dedicated to people mainly interested in Apple, so if you are not fanboys, you can go to any other type of page that I talked about about what you do like and stop criticizing.
It is not typical of Amazon ... I, I do not see it either. I have been visiting this page for years, that it happens so much to criticize the articles, that some are ungrateful ...
airgesture, S-Voice I use it daily HAHAHAHAHAHA… what a fabric
ActualidadiPhone It is no longer a news website. Now it is a website of opinions. It is not a competition if it offers superior features at the same price. I can buy an expired "apple" at one price and at the same price one freshly picked from the tree with all its new vitamins... OF COURSE IT CAN BE COMPETITION.
3 iPhones have passed through my hands, and at the time they seemed pointers to me, now I am with a Nexus 5 that without being a high-end phone, it works (for my taste) much better than an iPhone, and I would not change its 5 ″ for nothing in the world.
Hello José, congratulations on the article, it is very good, although I differ a little with respect to your opinion. I think that the Fire Phone is really going to eat the iPhone, more than anything for a simple quality that the iPhone does not have: the code is free. So it will be possible to customize the FireFly button, the ROM, the consumption, the access to the cameras, etc ... I know that it is a higher price than the iPhone, but if a person does it by company and then they have the possibility to modify everything whatever you want, something that the iPhone does not have, you will surely opt for the Fire Phone. Also, considering the reviews above, if you look at the fanboys, Amazon possibly has more.
Greetings and keep it up!!
You read what you want to read. I have been an Apple user for a few years. Current iPhone user. And it is one thing that they are news from Apple, which is why I visit this page, because I want to find out more, see new features, useful guides, applications ... And quite another is to say only the good of a company and put it through the roof, despising to the others.
I don't know why you read what you want to read or what interests you. Actualidad iPhone It is a NEWS page about Apple and more specifically NEWS about the iPhone, and that does not mean it has to be nor should it be a page with entries from fanboys, let's see, I don't know what you think about it.
Also, if we criticize the page it is simply so that it improves and they realize the errors. It is easier to say that everything is fine, perfect and it is the best and not to get into criticism, of course.