Amazon Fire Phone Review: Overpriced, Under Spec

Most smartphones today are built for speed, speed and more speed. This isn’t the case with the latest Amazon Fire. The device is different in the sense that it is how Amazon feels smartphone should be.

For starters, there are a total of five cameras at the front side of the Fire phone. One is used to snap selfie-shots while the other four are used to operate the Fire’s Dynamic Perspective feature. The latter basically tracks your head movement, measure its distance and offer 3D—like graphics on the screen.

The bar-code scanner is also something over-powered on the Fire phone. Snapping a pub sign, a car, a magazine or even numbers will get the device to identify and search the image content or even save the number in the phonebook.

These are the few features that made the Amazon Fire phone different and unique from the other smartphones. Spec-wise, the Fire has got nothing much to offer which is really surprising when it came out with a whopping $650 price-tag.

For something mediocre, expensive, yet special, the Amazon Fire phone will definitely appeal to Amazon shoppers. On the general side of things, the Fire phone is something that the masses would like to skip and look for other devices instead.

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