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CNET News - Amazon introduces the Fire Phone, its first smartphone

2014-06-18
can we build a better phone for Amazon Prime members well I'm excited to tell you that the answer is yes start with some of the basics this phone is gorgeous I can't wait for you to get your own hands on it and look at it put a huge amount of effort into the industrial design it's elegant and refined uses premium materials rubberized spray and gorilla glass on both sides we have CNC aluminum milled buttons they're three times as precise as the plastic buttons that others often use steel connectors so you won't get that USB wobble that everybody hates and we obsessed over the chamfer of the USP character so that the cord will slide in easily what about the size it's 4.7 inches absolutely gorgeous display we built models everywhere from 4.3 inches to 5.5 inches we've picked 4.7 as the perfect size for one-handed use we obsessed over outdoor viewing 519 it's this is an industry-leading brightness we put in a circular polarizer so that even with your sunglasses on you can use this phone in both portrait and landscape mode what about under the hood we do a lot of things with our smart phones these days and you need a lot of power under the hood quad-core 2.2 gigahertz processor beefy coprocessor for graphics and 2 gigabytes of RAM make sure it's fast and fluid our phones are also our primary cameras and we put a huge amount of attention and energy into making this the best camera 13 megapixels a super-fast 2.0 lens an optical image stabilization that's not what you want but that's what we get too often this is what you want crisp beautiful photo optical image stabilization tiny little electric motors on the lens that adjust the lens 100 times a second you're seeing it here in super slow motion and they counteract that natural hand trimmer that all humans have here's some of the results that's unretouched straight out of the phone with that beautiful photo this one same thing gorgeous let me show you a comparison here we've got Samsung on the Left iPhone on the right and the fire in the middle let's zoom in on this you can see look at the sky look at the sharp edges on the skyscrapers and compare it to the Samsung and the iPhone there's another thing to make photography great on this phone who gave you a button you can press that launches the camera wherever you happen to be you can be in the middle of an email you can be on your lock screen press that button BAM the cameras up press it again and you're just taking a picture and we're including unlimited storage for your photos on the Amazon Cloud we think sound is important on a phone we added dual stereo speakers Dolby Digital Plus virtual surround we've got flat cables on our earbuds with magnets that clasp them together and premium earbuds we're including them in the box they're not an accessory you have to purchase all right--so services matter - it's not just the hardware let's take a look at that video matters every passing year and month we can see this people are using their phones more and more to watch video ESPN HBO go Netflix Hulu Plus anything you want to watch about music phones are primary way to listen to music we've got tens of millions of songs you can buy we have x-ray for music so you can say synchronize lyrics and just last week we launched prime music your library is now a million songs bigger than it was last week and we've got all the apps you want there - Spotify Pandora I heart you sick enjoy I think you'll be unsurprised to learn that we lavished attention on this phone for reading up the Kindle Store millions of books to choose from by far the largest ebook store in the world five hundred thousand exclusives and the Kindle owners lending library hundreds of magazines and newspapers and comixology looks terrific on this phone in fire it's gonna be $199 with a two-year contract or thank you or the $27 a month with the next program the Ralph's was just talking about and it's not these are the prices you might expect for a 16 gigabyte model but we're making our model 32 gigabytes for the same price and pre-order today and it ships July 25th you won't have to wait long one more touch this one isn't that small we're also kicking things off with 12 months of Amazon Prime included you
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