The tale of the Fire Phone, Amazon’s very strange smartphone

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When Jeff Bezos decided Amazon needed to get successful the smartphone game, helium went each in. And the resulting device, the Fire Phone, coiled up much densely packed with large ideas than conscionable astir immoderate gadget you'll find anywhere. There was conscionable 1 tiny problem: they were mostly atrocious ideas.

The Fire Phone shipped successful 2014 with a diagnostic database a mile long. The surface had a 3D effect! There were, like, 400 cameras! There was a full location surface filled with thing called "delighters!" But the Fire Phone was, supra all, a mode to bargain things connected Amazon. That was what Bezos wanted, aft all. It's conscionable not what users wanted.