Amazon ’s long - rumoredFire Phone is finally here , folks ! It ’s vex a unbalanced sang-froid - looking human face - tracking 3D display thatknows the position of your headat all times andFirefly , a scannerthat identifies ( and helps you buy ) just about anything . But fetid lineament aside , how does The Everything Store ’s phone push-down storage up to the major competition ? Let ’s find out out .
First off , the hardware . Fire Phone runs its own in - house software , Fire oxygen ( which room late down inside is just Android with heavy layers of Amazon on top ) , with a quad - effect 2.2GHz processor that ’s slightly out - gun by the Galaxy S5 , but otherwise on equivalence with the competition .
Then we come to the stuff everyone ’s gon na be talking about : displays and cameras . On CRT screen sizing and resolution , the Amazon phone comes in second - to - last shoes , only beating the soon - to - be - updated iPhone 5S. move over the Amazon phone ’s 3D trickery , measure the new earphone ’s 4.7 - inch , 720p screenland against the Galaxy S5 ’s juggernaut display in all probability is n’t a really even comparison . Then again , the Moto X has a 720p display as well , and it ’s just all right . We ’ll have to wait until some hands on time to really bed what we ’re portion out with there .
Besides , nobody else has the straits - trailing 3D feature , which looked very coolheaded in Bezo ’s on - stage demonstration and might make us block the otherwise lusterless specs .
As for camera , Amazon ’s phone come out near the top of the stack . Its 2.1MP front shooter is midrange for this gang , but the 13MP rear bests all but the Galaxy S5 and the 20MP camera pacesetter , the Lumia Icon . But megapixels are n’t even close to the full floor when it come to camera quality , so we ’ll see how sample shots compare head to oral sex .
On the rest of the specs , the Amazon speech sound seems middling evenly matched , with the standard 2 GB of memory and 32 or 64 GB storehouse options . A 2400 mAh barrage should theoretically concur more juice than the iPhone 5S and be roughly equal to the Lumia Icon and Nexus 5 , but we ’ll see if those four front - facing cameras end up sucking more juice than your medium feature film .
As for the price ? The Fire Phone is AT&T only , with the 32 GB good example telephone in at $ 200 with a two - twelvemonth declaration — although that includes a twelvemonth of Amazon Prime membership , a $ 99 note value , so it ’s more like $ 100 with a two - yr contract if you think about it .
It seems like Amazon ’s phone runs pretty much cervix - and - cervix with the standard - bearers of the smartphone cosmos , but so much remains to be fancy about its real - Earth use . The nifty 3D display may just outshine its somewhat lackluster screen specs , and withFirefly , Mayday , andunlimited cloud - based photo storage , it ’s got some appealing feature nobody else offer that do n’t show up on a spec sheet . As for the rest ? We ’ll sleep together presently after we get some hands on time .
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