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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and yesterday Amazon released their fire phone and basically every major tech publication wrote something about it it's that sort of an all-time high in terms of curiosity right now and I didn't expect to see so many people interested in it but I've gotten a lot of questions about it so the fire phone is a new smartphone with a custom OS from Amazon fire OS it's built on top of Android and it's based around a couple of pretty unique features the number one of these being what's called dynamic perspective and that they just sent an email to a lot of people you're interested today saying that this is the first smartphone with dynamic perspective it's kind of like 3d but not really so the phone has four front-facing cameras one on each corner to track your face and uses a tracking with an accelerometer and gyroscope to shift what's on the screen a bit to make it feel more immersive it works with their new custom user interface it works with a few apps here and there when you tilt works with a few games here and there you can use it to scroll down lists and pages without touching a display yeah this isn't it this is really new when I turn it it moves whoa The Verge actually did a great hands-on video with the phone and I'll have that linked right below the like button if you want to check this out in action too a lot of people this will either scream awesome or gimmick depending on who you are but either way you look at it this is the main headlining feature of this phone the second major feature is what's called Firefly and it has its own button on the side of the phone when you press it it opens up Firefly and just start scanning with the camera and the microphones and whatever you point the phone at it will recognize it so if you have a TV playing a show in the background or if you have music playing in the background or if you point it at an object it will scan that and recognize it and then bring up a link to buy it on Amazon of course Amazon is hoping you'll really like this feature and start taking major advantage of it and buying lots of things on Amazon based on what you recognize around you pretty self-explanatory this is supposed to make Amazon more money but besides those two major new headlining features there is just a couple of other things sprinkled in you have your Mayday live tech support so the same thing I was on the Kindle Fire tablets you now get that live quick tech support on phone and since it's the fire OS made specifically for this phone you have a couple of other features like a notification tray live weather updates some gesture stuff they have quick settings it's made to compete and it's got these new features to stay with that you also get a free year of Amazon Prime but here's the thing about the fire phone it costs six hundred and fifty dollars off contract and that brings up a lot of questions about what exactly you're paying for here and to be honest basically all of the songs features except for dynamic perspective and I guess Mayday could be packaged into an app one app a five or $10 Amazon fire app that could look at what the camera is looking at and interpret it and give you an Amazon like to buy it we actually already kind of had versions of that you've probably already heard of Shazam and SoundHound where you can just listen to whatever music is playing it'll give you a link to buy that song on iTunes or Amazon or whatever and then at one point we had what's called Google Goggles which you've probably already heard of which let you just point your phone at anything it would recognize it and then give you a Google Shopping link to buy whatever you were getting it didn't know his work it wasn't perfect but it did basically the same thing and at one point Google now even had that command built into it so Amazon could have built a Amazon fire or Firefly app and just package that and sold it on Android and iOS stores and called it a day but because they decided to make a phone out of this and not just an app now they have to make all these things for the phone they have to make the custom fire OS for the phone sized screen now they have to make all these custom apps because they don't have access to the Google Play Store or the iOS App Store and for third-party apps they're still going to depend on Amazon's App Store because again they can't use a Google Play Store or the iOS App Store and they have to do manufacturing and production and packaging and Amazon's never made a phone before so this is their first try at all of that I'm not doubting them I'm not saying they can't do it but this is a lot of work to do for these features you want to sell people and they also have to work with a carrier to sell this phone and they only worked with AT&T so it's exclusive to AT&T at this point and it's $650 off contract so they made a $650 phone instead of an app or two I mean I guess on one hand that's that's kind of ballsy and confident about what they have to offer but on the other hand that seems pretty silly not everyone has to make a phone remember when Facebook decided we have to make a phone and the HTC first was born how long did that last really so I'd be surprised if we saw this Amazon fire phone lasts as long as that I mean I'd be I'd be surprised if we saw a version two of it next year even for 200 bucks Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet makes more sense because you actually get a unique new form factor specifically for reading you know it actually has some advantages over other ear eaters in the $200 price bracket I just don't see any of that with the $650 price bracket and the fire phone even if it's $200 on contract with AT&T there are better options out there so sorry Amazon probably should have made an app so I wasn't able to get my hands on one of these phones early I'm not that cool I didn't get to get hands-on but my first shot at actually playing with this phone would be pre-ordering one which would mean paying the $650 with the pre-order I have that link below and then waiting a month for to actually come out now don't get me wrong I love Amazon like I spend lots of money on Amazon probably more than any other site on the Internet I'm an Amazon Prime member most of the people I know are Amazon Prime members we all get our textbooks from Amazon but I won't be buying this phone and neither should you so that's the Amazon fire phone explained feel free to share this video get the word out I've gotten a lot of questions about this phone so this is the video for people who are asking questions so if you know people who are curious share this video with them that's been it thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace you