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there's a new player in the smartphone game Amazon it's kind of weird huh and the fire phone is kind of weird too it's not cheap it's not exactly pretty and it's locked into Amazon's ecosystem of apps and media so why buy this thing I'm Donald Bell and in today's top five I'm counting down the five most interesting features of the Amazon fire phone features that might even convince you to give it a shot starting off at number five head-tracking 3d now I know that anything 3d should be met with some healthy skepticism but the way Amazon is doing this is legitimately groundbreaking stuff the phone uses four cameras to track your head position in real time and fool your brain into seeing 3d on a 2d screen even if you just use it to show off the lockscreen image on your phone I can guarantee that you will be showing this trick off to everyone you know and isn't showing off what technology is all about at number four gesture control we've seen gesture control on phones before the iPhone has their shake to undo feature and the Samsung Galaxy has their tilt controls for scrolling and flipping pages but Amazon it's the first to really bake these gestures and tilt controls into every aspect of the phone tilting reveals menus and shortcuts a swivel will show you your notifications and a twist will reveal extra info like restaurant ratings on a map I can't tell yet if this is the future or a carpal tunnel lawsuit waiting to happen but I'm excited to give it a try coming in at number three the Mayday button sure it's advertised as a way for lonely guys to chat up a redhead who's paid to tolerate them but the truth is even if you don't buy this phone the Mayday button could save your relationships chances are if you're watching CNET videos somebody probably considers you their free tech support so what if instead of calling you mom press this mate a button and could chat up our friend ginger here think of the hours of your life you just got back at number two Firefly the press of a button you can call upon the powers of the great Amazon brain to make sense of the world around you Firefly can tell you what song is playing with TV show you're watching and if you point it at something Firefly will try extra hard to try to find a way to order it on Amazon for you pair it up with a stolen credit card and you've basically got a magic Genie with unlimited wishes you'll go to prison man what a weekend which brings us to my number one Amazon fire phone feature unlimited photo storage every photo and video you take on this phone will get automatically backed up in full resolution to your Amazon Cloud Drive no extra fees no storage limits if you've ever lost a phone before you know that losing your photos can be the biggest bummer especially if there are photos of your kid or a vacation or sasquatch having those precious images backed up automatically with no worry of hitting a storage limit is a killer feature so there you go five features at the fire phone that could put it at the top of your Amazon wishlist more info on the fire phone and its competition visit phones cnet.com and for more top fives from me top-5 cnet.com i'm donald bell thanks for watching