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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by lynda.com what's up everyone john wrench from TechnoBuffalo here i want to give my first impressions of this guy the latest to come out of amazon's labs this is the fire phone is it worth it is it not worth it should you pick one up pre-order or whatever it might be stick around I'll tell you my first impressions of the latest from Amazon so let me start with a disclaimer this is not our full review I've had the device since last Friday so by the time this is being filmed I've had it for about five days you know the way we do reviews you always disclose how long we use them and I don't feel that five days was enough time to get to know a new phone especially a new phone with an all new OS and all kinds of strange things happening to make the phone very unique I want to give it the full time to know all the nuances so expect a review in about a week or so another disclaimer the device receives a software update earlier today is being filmed on Tuesday it's a three point five point one so a few changes are in there as well so I really like fire OS on a tablet I love the Kindle Fire HDX devices they work absolutely awesome I think they're well designed well engineered and the OS is really intuitive on a tablet I mostly just use the browser in a few apps it's pretty simple stuff on a phone though that the same OS with some tweaks can become really really confusing and I was looking at this phone not realizing how to do stuff and that comes from a guy who reviews phones for a living over the past five years I've checked out probably every single major US release phone that's come out now don't confuse confusing with not capable the OS is very capable but the learning curve here is very steep it's not like Android you pick up a device you know where things are going to be together so what skin is on or iOS you know where things are this is the entirely new experience so be prepared for that from day one so the panel on the left is gonna be your main sort of shopping pants we're gonna access your apps all your books really anything that amazon has to offer that's what this phone is really all about getting you to Amazon so it's there it's gonna get you to shortcuts to where you want to go but the main OS it's really used to the carousel it's gonna show you all your apps from your verse chronological order use the information below them you can click on unfortunately you don't know what information is going to show and you can't really control what information is going to be there they're sort of at the mercy of the OS to figure it's going to show you the shortcuts that you want for example if you click on settings you're gonna get a few settings gonna show up down below you have to actually go into the Settings app to access the rest of the settings which you could sort of customize it's going to show below in the carousel the big thing here to fire from the dynamic perspective the first thing I test took out of the box it's got five cameras that are staring at you one in each corners can be used for dynamic perspective what that's gonna do it's gonna see you ahead it's gonna track where you're moving and where your head is in relation to the device it's gonna sort of move things around if 3d for example sort of brought things out from the phone dammit perspective sort of brings you inside of the device think of it as putting your face inside of a picture frame and looking around at the image that's really what you get with the fire phone you can see around icons you can see sort of behind the text it's a really cool way to show things it was really awesome in gaming I thought it added a whole new dimension to gaming anywhere else though it kind of became a bit cumbersome to use I was interesting in maps and I very quickly tried to find a way to turn it off what you cannot do but the positive thing is that Amazon is opening up the eph list so this could be an incredibly useful feature in the near future but right now I just did so much of a manage there quite yet you take a quick break to thank our friends and good peeps at lynda.com everybody wants to learn something new make themselves better and lynda.com could help you do that they've got thousands of engaging easy to fault orioles they're taught by video experts and they're all online and all video base you can learn all the software creative business skills you need to make yourself better get off your mom's couch membership starts just twenty-five bucks per month invited unlimited 24/7 access give it a shot for seven days for free by visiting lynda.com/tekzilla buffalo that's ly NDA comm such act no buffalo we're gonna do more testing on the camera but our first impressions it seems pretty solid but a little bit slow to take the picture but it was awesome in low light the sign on the phone is looks like any other film looks nowadays it's got glass on the back glass on the front and it's got a bit of a plastic molding around the side and a gigantic Amazon logo Firefly is also the main big feature essentially what it's gonna do it's gonna sort of recognize anything you put in front of the camera more than that so it'll do music and start a playlist for you based on that song can look at books all kinds of other stuff it works as advertised gets you a way to sort of buy stuff from Amazon exactly what it's supposed to do these are just first impressions of the fire phone if I was gonna do a full review after five days on a brand new OS that beyond that got a software update earlier in the day it wouldn't be fair to the device so I'm gonna keep using it I'm gonna test it see if I can figure out more nuances what works what doesn't work and more shortcuts usually waste multitasking things like that but I think particularly you guys want to see leaving the comments down below just let the review in about a week or so and I feel more comfortable using it getting guys thank you for watching hope you enjoyed check us out of course tectum buffalo come play some greatest tech news until then I'm John Redinger see ya next video bye bye thank you guys for watching please subscribe right here be the first ones to know whenever new videos get uploaded we got a ton of stuff we do phones tablets cars anything has to do it Consumer Electronics has to be plugged in or uses batteries we review