Amazon Fire Phone !

<p>Amazon Fire phone with 3D-LCD and 13MG camera, any biters ?</p>

<p>AT&T only. I'd rather eat broken glass. </p>

 

<p>But you should be able to switch it to Consumer Cellular, the top-rated carrier in the U.S., which runs on AT&T's network.</p>

... assuming you don't mind paying full price and cancellation fees and doing some hackery to unlock it.

 

But anyway. I'm not sold on this yet. Doesn't it run Amazon's version of Android that forces you to use their app store?

That splintering seems against the best interests of the buyer. The whole thing seems more like an enabling device for

Amazon to better lock in buyers to their own store and services than a really innovative product that consumers need.

<p>Interesting first effort, but seems akin to Amazon's earlier Kindles. Not in terms of technology - the Fire Phone is far more advanced - but in terms of focus on Amazon's walled garden and product universe. Our earlier generation Kindle Keyboard was a terrific ereader, but the web browser was painfully slow and overall the online interaction was suitable mostly to getting stuff from Amazon.</p>

<p>The Kindle Fire HD changed that paradigm. It's not merely an Amazon shopping device or ereader with excellent HD video for movies, but a very capable all purpose web tablet. It isn't locked into Amazon's walled garden, although it can be used that way if the owner prefers.</p>

<p>The phone's entry price and limited service choice doesn't appeal to me... yet. I've thought for a couple of years that Amazon would go this direction, toward developing a phone that filled the niche between Apple's tightly managed concept and the wide open Android universe. And I still think Amazon can be a significant factor in phones. But I'll probably wait and see. What will nudge me toward an Amazon phone is whether it's as easy to operate as the Kindle Fire HD for my 70+ year old relatives and friends.</p>