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- The Firefly FlyPhone has acceptable call quality, a cool morphing keypad, and parental controls. Its features are solid for a youth-friendly cell phone. The Bad Some of the FlyPhone's controls are cramped and its microSD card slot is inconveniently located. You don't get a wall charger in the box and the photo quality is poor.
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Jun 19, 2014 · The Amazon Fire Phone, complete with 3D interface, Mayday, and a new feature called Firefly, is here. We go hands on.
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Apr 25, 2005 · With parental controls, ease of use, no text messaging, and a prepaid calling plan, the Firefly phone is an ideal mobile for tweens. Half pint: the Firefly is compact and portable.
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- Design and OS
- Specs: Leaning to High-End
- Firefly: The Killer App?
- Dynamic Perspective: Fire Phone 3D and Magic Camera System
- Price and Availability
From afar, Amazon's Fire Phone doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before. In fact, it looks a lot like other black smartphones: a Gorilla Glass (3) front and back, rubber-rimmed sides, chamfered edges, and a physical home button. There's a physical camera button as well, which launches both the camera and Firefly, Amazon's new scanning-and-sh...
While not at the top of its class on paper, Amazon's Fire Phone still has some fair-to-high-end specs overall. It starts with a 4.7-inch IPS LCD HD display with 590 nits of brightness and a circular polarizer for clear outdoor viewing and reading. Still, the Fire Phone's screen has only a 1,280x720-pixel resolution, lower than recent higher-end sma...
One area where the Fire Phone stands out is Firefly, a universal visual-scanning app that uses the camera and a huge database to identify items and objects, and then tell you what it is or give you the chance to buy it (through Amazon, naturally). It isn't the first app to recognize QR codes, items, music and audio tracks, and URLs -- most mobile O...
Amazon gave the 3D-like effect you see on lock screens, home screen and app tray, and in maps a technical, rather jargon-y name: Dynamic Perspective. That's handled through all those IR cameras studded on the phone's face. Tilting the phone can zoom in on images, maps will show 3D landmarks that can be tilted and "moved" around, and tilting the pho...
In the US, AT&T will offer the Fire Phone exclusively, for $199 with 32GB storage or $299 with 64GB storage, with a two-year contract. Unsubsidized prices in the US are $649 and $749, respectively, which converts to around £380/AU$690 and £440/AU$795. Amazon did not reveal when, or indeed if, the Fire Phone will go on sale outside the US, but the U...
Jun 18, 2014 · Firefly, which undoubtedly stole the show today at the Fire Phone reveal, is not inherently novel. It's more a compendium of existing smartphone features in a single-serving experience.
Jul 23, 2014 · The short answer is yes. The Fire Phone hooks up with your work email and calendar easily. The cloud backup is seamless. And all the apps I need are there since Amazon has already built out its...
Jan 14, 2015 · TechRadar Verdict. The Fire Phone is a shopping tool for Amazon with some phone features baked in. Pros. +. Easy Amazon shopping. +. Decent battery life. +. 24/7 live tech support. Cons. -...
