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Amazon Launches Fire Phone, Ignites the Smartphone Market

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Here are some of the things that make Amazon’s Fire Phone a unique beast among the thousands of smartphones available on today’s market.

The Seattle-based e-tailer had to implement some unique features into the Fire Phone, in order to ensure its success and survival on the market. Below are some of the aspects that should increase people’s appeal for the Amazon Fire Phone over the competitors’ offers.

At the event hosted by Amazon at Fremont Studios in Seattle, Jeff Bezos made sure that everyone understands that the Firefly app is the feature that’s placed center-stage. As always, it’s not the hardware that’s the most important for Amazon, but the software ecosystem that it creates, and the integration of Amazon services so that they perfectly complement the hardware.

Firefly is the equivalent of Shazam for everything Amazon-related. It can identify songs, and then take you to the Amazon page belonging to the album, but it goes way beyond that. Once you point the camera at a phone number or a bar code, Firefly detects it and lets you interact with it accordingly.

More than that, it can detect movies and TV shows, so if you like it, you could think of it as Shazam for video content.

Luckily, if you happen to be in a hurry, you don’t need to unlock the screen and go through the app drawer to launch Firefly. Amazon gave that some thought and added a Firefly button to the Fire Phone. In other words, it takes just one second to access more than 100 million items from the e-tailer’s website.

In case you need help while using the Fire Phone, you are encouraged to launch the Mayday app that will get you in touch with a customer support representative right away. Now that’s what I call a company that cares about its clients!

Of course, the 3D effects are also important, as they’re done in a unique way. The four cameras that adorn the corners of the 4.7″ display detect the position of your head and eyes, and adjust the displayed content accordingly, so that it seems 3D at all times.

Fire Phone users will also get one year of Amazon Prime at no additional cost. That means that they can access Prime Music, Prime Instant Video, and Kindle books a lot faster than typical Amazon customers.

The e-tailer sweetened the deal even more by offering unlimited photo storage in the Amazon cloud drive. If you like shooting a lot of photos, this will definitely be up your alley.

The Fire Phone will be available on July 25 on AT&T exclusively, at least for the time being. The 32GB version will cost $200, while the 64GB one will be $300, both of them with two-year contracts. That being said, would you consider buying one?

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Amazon Sent Invites for the June 18 Launch of a Never-Seen-Before Device

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Using a teaser ad that featured people moving their heads around a mysterious object while expressing their excitement, Amazon invited the world to a launch event that will take place on June 18.

Most likely, the mysterious device that Amazon is planning to launch two weeks from now is the long-awaited 3D smartphone the e-tailer has been rumored to work on. In the teaser video, people are looking at a device from different angles, suggesting that whatever is displayed on the screen has multiple facets. That would be the case with 3D displays, but the reaction of the witnesses is quite unsettling.

Most of them are asking (rhetorically) how is the 3D effect achieved, and claim that such an approach has never been taken before by anyone else. This could be explained by the fact that Amazon’s 3D smartphone will be equipped with 6 front-facing cameras, according to the previously leaked images, which will identify the position of the face and display the 3D content accordingly.

Much like Amazon’s tablets, the 3D smartphone (which will hopefully get a name like Kindle Phone) will also run a heavily modified version of Android, and will sport many of the e-tailer’s apps instead of the services provided by Google. Still, not long after the launch, there will be custom ROMs out there, so this shouldn’t be a reason to panic.

Amazon might also reveal at the launch of its 3D smartphone that it has partnered with AT&T in order to create a sponsored data plan that doesn’t count audio and video streaming from the e-tailer’s services as network traffic. From this point of view, more carriers should make such strategic partnerships.

I really enjoyed the ending, since the last reaction is of a guy who asks if he has to give it back. While confronted with the opportunity of seeing an innovative product ahead of the rest of the planet, I guess most people would ask that, or at least think it.

Once Amazon unveils its mysterious product, I’ll cover the details, even if it isn’t the long-awaited 3D smartphone. In the opinion of many, launching anything else but a smartphone would be a terrible disappointment at this point. Hopefully the hardware will match the expectations and a new contender will appear for the first place in the Android market.

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Google To Experiment With 3D Imaging Devices

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Google has reportedly joined the 3d race and is working on tablets & smartphones capable of taking and displaying 3D images.

Starting next month, Google is set to release a first run of 4,000 devices with two rear-facing cameras and software. As we reported before, this is not official as of now and just rumors, but many developers claim to be already aware and working with the company, Google spoke last March of Project Tango, an organized project that would marry their devices with the 3D technology available today. Initial prototypes had been given to chosen developers to try out, so there should be progress in that area.

This way, Google would be joining the likes of Nintendo’s very own 3DS as one of the first portable devices capable of 3D without glasses, which were the biggest setback for this technology to catch on. We’re expecting this technology to eventually work along with Facebook’s newly acquired Oculus VR technology.

Source: BBC

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Amazon Kindle Fire Phone Images Leaked on the Internet

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Amazon’s long-awaited Kindle Fire smartphone, which according to a WSJ report is due for release in June, has showed up on the Web in the form of leaked images.

Unlike typical leaked images, the following ones don’t give everything away, as the Kindle Fire phone‘s actual design is hidden by a bulky case. Still, the images are enough for giving us an idea about how Amazon’s phone will look like. Some details regarding the device’s 3D interface have also surfaced recently, and there seem to be differences between Amazon’s implementation and the one seen in Nintendo’s 3DS handheld gaming console.

The e-tailer’s approach is believed to be similar to the parallax interface elements in Apple’s iOS 7, just better. The previous rumors about the phone having six cameras are now confirmed by the leaked images. While the resolution of the rear-facing camera is thought to be 13 MP, the technical specs of the others are unknown. Obviously, one of the front facing cameras will be used for video calls and selfies, while the other four infrared cameras, which are placed in each corner of the face, will be able to detect the viewer’s head position and adjust the pseudo-3D content displayed on the screen accordingly.

Spec-wise, Amazon’s phone should come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU and 2GB of RAM, but the number of cores and the particular processor model are unknown. If we are to compare Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets with the ones from the Nexus family, the e-tailer’s offer leaves a lot to be desired, but that’s not to say that they’re making bad products. Amazon will most probably equip its smartphone with a heavily modified version of Android, in the vein of the one available in Kindle Fire tablets.

Amazon also opted for a 4.7-inch low pixel density display with a resolution of 720p HD. This really makes the Kindle Fire phone a mid-range product, as the competition’s offers pack either 1080p or even 4K displays.

The major selling point of this phone remains the 3D interface, and that’s exactly what will set Amazon’s device apart from the competitors. It goes without saying that the e-tailer will have to work together with app developers to make as many apps compatible as possible. There is also a major downside about this device, namely its availability limited to the US, in the beginning.

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Amazon Plans to Launch its 3D Display Smartphone This Summer

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Amazon really wants to take over this holiday season. The giant online retailer is reportedly planning to launch its smartphone ahead of this year's holiday season.Amazon is preparing to announce its...