NEW YORK – What I find fascinating about Amazon’s Fire phone isn’t the gizmos such as the 3-D imagery or the camera scanner that helps you get more information about products. Rather, I like that ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says it’s still early, and there’s room for a competitor to challenge Apple and Samsung in the smartphone arena. Bezos unveiled the company’s first smartphone ever on Wednesday, ...

In this episode of Version History: Amazon’s big, mostly very bad ideas about phones. In this episode of Version History: Amazon’s big, mostly very bad ideas about phones. is editor-at-large and ...

From a hardware perspective, the Fire Phone carries a bill of materials (BOM) low enough to allow Amazon to cut a profit for each smartphone sold. But with Amazon likely having sunk large amounts of ...

It can stream video to the Fire TV. That's a no-brainer. Voice search works as well -- a Siri competitor. The carousel is updated to better fit the phone UI. Answer mail right from the main screen.

In announcing Fire, its first-ever smartphone, Amazon showed off some sparks of innovation. There are two standout features in particular: a service called Firefly that can identify everything from a ...

Amazon is finally ready to unleash its first phone, the Fire. An exclusive to AT&T, this unique phone sports a spiffy interface totally new to the phone world, and a few fancy hardware and software ...

Amazon started in 1995 with the tagline “Earth’s biggest bookstore”, but they quickly outgrew that and shifted to “Earth’s biggest selection.” More recently, their tagline was “And you’re done,” but ...

Even Amazon chief Jeff Bezos can't sell the world on the Fire Phone. Photo: Roberto Baldwin/The Next Web Nobody would ever call Amazon’s Fire Phone a hit, but even the company’s most loyal shoppers ...