Amazon Fire Phone

Amazon Fire Phone Review

Amazon’s long-rumored smartphone has finally arrived in the form of the Fire Phone. The pseudo-Android smartphone shows its maker’s touch with heavy leanings toward Amazon digital content and features like Firefly that aim to keep consumers embedded squarely in the retailer’s ecosystem, but is it worth the initial investment? Find out in our full review!

5 top features of the Amazon Fire Phone

So Amazon just announced the Fire Phone, their first smartphone, but what exactly sets it apart from the pack? Here are our 5 favorite features introduced along with the Fire Phone.

Amazon might be trying to make another Fire phone with Alexa

Remember the Amazon Fire Phone? It was the company’s first shot at creating their own smartphone, and it wasn’t at all successful. Well, they seemingly want to take another shot.

Deal: Get an Amazon Fire Phone and a year of Amazon Prime for just $119

So the Amazon Fire Phone is dead, and for decent reason. But there’s still a very good excuse to pick one up in the here and now. The 32GB device is going for just $119 unlocked on eBay, and that comes with a full year’s subscription of Amazon Prime.

Amazon Fire Phone is dead: Amazon completely burns through inventory

Long live the Amazon Fire Phone! OK, actually we couldn’t care less if its record was completely stricken from the consumer electronics history books, and from the looks of things neither could Amazon.

You’re Fired: Amazon shelves Fire Phone, dismisses workers

The Amazon Fire Phone has been nothing short of a colossal disappointment. Now the company has fired dozens of engineers who worked on the project and the Amazon Fire Phone’s future looks bleek.

Amazon Fire Phone update brings Android 4.4 KitKat and over 10 new features

Amazon Fire Phone owners might not be a plentiful bunch, but those who are rocking the phone as proud as can be will be happy to know a new upgrade is headed your way. The upgrade brings Fire OS’s base platform version up to Android 4.4 KitKat, as well as a slew of new features.

Deal: grab the Amazon Fire Phone and a year of Amazon Prime for $189 today

Amazon is putting on their best deal for the Amazon Fire Phone since dropping it to $200 unlocked back in November. You can now grab the phone in the same unlocked capacity for $189, and don’t forget that comes with a year of Amazon Prime for free.

Readers’ Choice Awards: Biggest Fail of 2014

With less than two days left in the year, we are down to our penultimate category in our 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards. It is now time to announce the winner for the one category where last place would be a better finish than first. Ladies and gentlemen, your choice for the Biggest Fail of 2014.

Top 10 Android Stories of 2014

As the calendar gets closer to 2015 it’s time to look back and recap the past year. 2014 will go down as one of the most important years in the history of Android. Here are the top 10 Android stories from 2014.

At $200 unlocked, the Amazon Fire Phone could be one of the greatest holiday bargains

Amazon seems to have conceded defeat on their first ever smartphone with their latest move: putting the Fire Phone up for $200 unlocked. Bad phone or not, this is not an easy deal to overlook.

Amazon blames poor Fire Phone sales on the pricing, ignores other problems

Despite its name, the Amazon Fire Phone has not been a hot seller. Last week Amazon shared financial data with investors, and they reported a huge quarterly loss. The Amazon Fire phone was likely not the lone culprit of the poor numbers, but it certainly did not help.