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hello and welcome to inside scoop I'm Sumi das joining us is senior editor for cnet Jessica dole court Jessica thanks for being with us of course you are holding in your hands the Amazon fire phone tell us what the standout features are well they're free really you'll notice that there are four cameras on the front or five actually but therefore around the corners and this helps with a something we would call 3d effect but Amazon calls it dynamic perspective okay and litter to all throughout the operating system you'll see these extra rich immersive graphics as it made you nauseous when you've used it it only with this auto scrolling when you're a reading thing like on a web page and that I would turn off but everything else is kind of cool it adds an extra little somethin'-somethin but you can definitely live without it and and you can turn it off in the options you can't turn it off yeah absolutely yeah so there's some gesture controls that are part of that as well if you don't want to swipe to get menus you can flick your wrist a little bit and then it's all tied on into it okay that's cool there's also a firefly and and you trigger that either by pressing something on the screen or by pressing and holding this physical button on the side of the phone and what this does is it scans the world around you so much like other Amazon scanning apps for their smart phones you can hold up any kind of object or a bar code and it will read it and find it for you in the Amazon catalog how convenient yeah but it goes beyond shopping because you can also identify music videos movies got that Shazam element to it it does and in addition to that there's some optical character recognition see if you see a phone number somewhere or on a business card you can actually integrate that phone number and an email address into your phone he's sort of like copy it to paste it a clipboard right away or you can actually add it to your address book so these are things that already exist in other phones but it's tied up in one package okay and then the third thing that they have is made a and that's basically live video conferencing help you see their face they see your screen they can write all over your screen and kind of step by step walk you through things it's based on an android foundation but it's not the traditional flexible android experience that you'll expect so that means you're not going to get things like Google Play sir says most notably Google now knowing all of that who should buy this 5 if you have you know the Amazon fire TV and the kindle fire then you might want to get this phone as well if you don't really care that much about Android or iOS or any other sort of OS that's already well-established one other thing we should mention is that in terms of wireless carriers you are limited right right now this is exclusively sold through AT&T okay all right well Jessica thanks for the in-depth preview and we'll see how consumers react once they have it in their hands absolutely for inside scoop I'm soon