The first smartphone from the famous American company Amazon – is in itself an interesting thing. In e-commerce giant already has a wealth of experience in the manufacture of tablets Kindle Fire, which were very personal, so news of expecting something nice and special.
“Amazon Phone” became available for purchase in the United States on July 24 for $ 199 (32GB) and $ 299 (64GB) c contract operator for 2 years, which makes it very affordable (at least for Americans). In the Amazon store cost more divine: $ 650/750.
So what eventually happened with the company Amazon, which marketers may not be one year studying the needs of consumers, to present his vision of how this should look “cool” smartphone?
Design and Features
Externally Fire Phone much likes LG Nexus 4. His glass panels front and rear (used Corning Gorilla Glass) and rubberized edges. Dimensions smartphone acceptable – 139.2 x 66.5 x 8.9 mm, but the weight is heavy, the -160.
Glass back panel easily collects fingerprints and also easily cleaned from them. It has a logo Amazon and is a 13-megapixel camera with flash. Glass closes the screen is also quite easily soiled. Above the screen is integrated front camera with a resolution of 2.1Mp, and under the screen there is one single key «Home».
The power button and headphone jack are on the top, volume buttons and turn on the camera – on the left.
The most interesting detail design can be called lenses 4 cameras with infrared illumination, built at the corners of the front panel. They are designed to work the technology of so-called “dynamic perspectives» (Dynamic Perspective), but rather for two things: 1) Tracking angle perspective of the user to adjust the depth of field of the image, which makes the interface 3D-effect; 2) for the implementation of remote management using head movements.
Smartphone features a 4.7-inch screen resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels (312 ppi). Of course, the resolution is not the best, the picture is quite clear. Color reproduction of the display is good, viewing angles – great.
Two stereo speakers with surround sound support Dolby Digital Plus are located on the sides of the body and produce a loud enough and clear sound.
Filling
Powerful 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with a frequency of 800 Hz 2.2, video processor Adreno 330, as much as 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of memory (memory card slot is not available, but there is a modification of a smartphone with 64 GB of memory).
Amazon Fire Phone boasts numerous sensors: light, proximity, gyroscope, compass, and barometer. In the smartphone is also integrated modules Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 3.0, NFC, GPS / GLONASS. One sim card – standard nano SIM
The volume of the built-in battery is 2400 mAh, which is enough for 22 hours of talk time 8 hours of video playback or 65 hours of music listening.
Interface and unusual features
The most controversial side of Amazon Fire Phone is an operating system Fire OS 3.5 with 3D-interface. First turn on your smartphone, the user will have 5 minutes to see the quick start guide that has just said about the problems with intuitive controls.
The “dynamic perspective”, making it possible to control unusual smartphone, gives the impression of just the first few minutes of dating. In fact, it is almost useless, so about her presence quickly forgotten. Traditional management faster and more reliable!
If you own a tablet Kindle Fire, some UI elements FireOSbudut familiar. Desk is a carousel of the most used applications. There are also additional panels that you spend on the very edge of the left or right side of the screen. On one panel displays access to games, music and other entertainment applications, and on the other – to the e-mail, weather, and more. D.
Touch the top down, you can call notification and shortcuts to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, as well as online customer support service Mayday.
All of the above secondary panels may appear when you accidentally touch certain parts of the screen that can not be annoying.
Since Fire Phone has only one physical navigation button “Home”, the sometimes very lacking, at least, the key “Back”. In order to go back, in most applications have to make a gesture on the screen from the bottom up, which is not very intuitive and pointless.
The second interesting feature of the smartphone is support for Firefly, which allows identifying some things with the camera. These things include the QR-code, and phone numbers, famous works of art, books, movies, and more. Others music recognition is also possible with a microphone.
All is good, but the company Amazon uses Firefly, to sell you more of their products. If there is an identified object in the store, you will get a proper link to the page in the store Amazon.
Pros:
+ Build quality;
+ Long battery life;
+ Good camera.
Cons:
- Confusing interface;
- Not a very high resolution screen;
- High cost without a contract.
Review Amazon Fire Phone. Steep smartphone from the largest online store
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