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we're here in Seattle Washington Amazon's hometown where CEO Jeff Bezos just unveiled the fire fund so the biggest whiz-bang feature on the fire phone is dynamic perspective which isn't as gimmicky as 3d but it does enable some neat features you can sort of peek around the corners of things it allows you to tilt scrolling in the browser and an e books so that's what you see on the 720p screen and it's run by having four cameras in each corner that actually tracks your head in space beyond that it's a relatively standard Android smartphone it's got a home button it's got gorilla glass on the front and on the back where we've also got a 13 megapixel camera rubberized side stereo speakers and a dedicated button on the side which can launch the camera or if you hold it down it launches this feature called Firefly now Firefly is pretty cool you can stick anything in front of it and it'll automatically detect it and tell you what it is and then you can slide up and do stuff with it pan since it's Amazon the thing you don't want to do with a lot of it is buy it so you can go right in there you can buy it you can start radio stations with it with third-party apps and whatever else some of the other features here if we look at this display perspective stuff you can see when I tilt the phone it starts popping up information from the Yelp on the different restaurants and I can actually just move my head to have that stuff here too instead of just tilting the phone that's pretty neat so the dynamic perspective stuff also comes into play in games so while you're looking at a game you can actually peek around the level to sort of get a sense of what you're going to need to do when you start running around the screen a few the other features on the device if you give it a quick shake over it'll jump you into notification settings where you can also start Mayday which is Instant Video Chat help from amazon's customer service and it also is instant help from a teen tease customer service which is great because att's customer service really isn't there's also neat little panels there's a universal notification or navigation thing on this side these panels here you've got weather and other other bits of information on this side and overall the phone it feels a little bit thick but if the screen looks great despite the fact that's only 720p it feels really sturdy despite the fact that it's glass on the front in the back the rubberized sides really help you grip it and overall it's it's a pretty straightforward kind of Android phone there are some neat features it's got really big blocky graphics here but it's it's you know if you love Amazon you might like this phone otherwise you might be looking for something a little bit more powerful it's available exclusively on AT&T it's $1.99 on contract or you can also get it next for I think 27 bucks a month and for right now Amazon is also giving you a free year of prime which is worth a hundred bucks that's not a terrible deal