Wednesday, at an exclusive Amazon event, Jeff Bezos announced their first smartphone, dubbed the Amazon Fire phone. From using drones to drop packages, competing with Paypal and delivering groceries straight to your door, Amazon has been finding creative ways to insert themselves into our everyday lives. But with the announcement of the company’s foray into the smartphone market, our curiosity has been piqued to find out what the Amazon Fire is all about. You won’t be able to get your hands on the smartphone until July 25th but you can preorder the phone while checking out the specs:
- 4.7″ IPS LCD HD display “optimized for one-handed use” – 590 nit brightness, Gorilla Glass
- Quad core 2.2GHz processor
- Adreno 330 GPU
- 2GB RAM
- 32/64GB storage
- 13MP f/2.0 rear shooter, OIS – instant access button, even with the screen off
- Four front-facing cameras for dynamic perspective and a wider field of view
- Unlimited photo storage (cloud)
- Dual stereo speakers
- Ships with non-tangle headphones with flat cable and magnetic buds
- Glass back
- Aluminum Buttons
- Nine-band LTE
- $199 on-contract, AT&T Only
The Amazon Fire phone comes jam-packed with new features geared to the Amazon lover. Of course the phone comes with the typical Amazon products: Prime streaming content, Whispersync, Firefly, Kindle and Mayday, their 24×7, 365 day support team. The Fire phone can identify over 100 million movies, TV episodes, songs and products from what you’re listening to or watching. Important information and articles will display to help you decide what’s best for you. Of course, Amazon will direct you to their product page making it even easier to order.
Amazon Prime is included for free for an entire year so you can enjoy unlimited streaming for TV episodes, movies and music. Already have Prime? Then your current membership will be extended for another year.
Now, the bad news. The Amazon Fire will be sold exclusively through AT&T for $199 with a two year contract or $649 for 32GB/$750 for 64GB. Amazon hasn’t announced plans to roll the phone out to other networks at this time.
[Photos: Associated Press/Amazon]