Amazon Unveils Its Smartphone: "Fire".

Amazon unveils ‘Fire,’ its first smartphone

Amazon’s Fire Phone: Firefly, Free Cloud and Other Big Takeaways

From the first article:

As had been rumored, the phone is being offered in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and can already be found on the company’s website, starting at a price of $199.99 for a two-year contract with the 32-gigabyte model. For a limited time, Amazon is also offering a year-long Amazon Prime membership along with the new phone.

One of the phone’s main features is Firefly, an image recognition service that can identify text and images as well as audio and video. Bezos said users can use Firefly, which has its own designated button on the side of the device, to scan phone numbers, books and even works of art to get information and save it on the phone. Firefly can also recognize songs and television shows, or offer nutritional information for food.

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So will this flop? Or does the Fire rises?

The smartphone business seems to be a difficult market to crack, so I'll be surprised if Amazon succeeds on their first attempt.

I will see how it goes. I have a 5s now but I have a fire hdx tablet which I like and prime. I"ll let it play out this year it so and see if it's worth switching to later on.

From ashes, fire will rise

It's an incredibly awesome phone but it's obviously dead on arrival. The high price point and availability only to AT&T customers will not attract individuals to move away from the apple or samsung infrastructure to Amazon. If they had provided a clearly competitive price point, like $50 on contract for example, it would probably have a chance. As it stands now it probably won't sell well.

I became disinterested as soon as I read the part about partnering with AT&T

Lol @ AT&T. I like my Samsung Galaxy 5, thanks.

Unless that phone can get more than a day on a battery charge, I'll just group this one with the rest of the smartphones.

Not impressed.

Only with AT&T is a deal-breaker.

The fact that the screen is 720p rather than 1080 would definitely allow for better battery life over other phone competitors. More pixels means more battery drain. And Amazon tablets seem to do very well on the battery front, I expect the same here. Although real world application won't be seen until the device is actually released.

That's no iphone or galaxy killer

Going to bomb. Too gimmicky and expensive to be able to compete with Android or the iPhone.

This could have been a big seller if it was priced right off-contract instead. They should have gone that route to integrate more people into their OS and markets.

No Google apps and pretty middling specs for a $200 on-contract phone through an exclusive carrier?

Yikes.

Galaxy Note 4 (coming soon and will be maxed out with everything including Snapdragon 805 and QHD AMOLED!), Galaxy S5, Nokia Lumia 1520, LG G3, HTC One M8... these are the phones people should be looking at.

They are uber-top quality made, top-spec'd and most (the Windows Phone 8.1 upgrade on the Lumia 1520 is significant over the base on older models) have access to the best and most diverse app collection on the planet (notice how I didn't mention Apple here, since I don't think their devices are even in the same market anymore, they have their own niche with their own customer type).

It'll get crushed in the market. A smartphone that only appears on one carrier in one country at this time in history?

DOA.