{"id":1640,"date":"2025-11-09T19:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-tale-of-the-fire-phone-amazons-very-strange-smartphone\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:20:24","slug":"the-tale-of-the-fire-phone-amazons-very-strange-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-tale-of-the-fire-phone-amazons-very-strange-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"The tale of the Fire Phone, Amazon\u2019s very strange smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Jeff Bezos decided Amazon needed to get in the smartphone game, he went all in. And the resulting device, the Fire Phone<\/a>, wound up more densely packed with big ideas than just about any gadget you’ll find anywhere. There was just one tiny problem: they were mostly bad ideas.<\/p>\n

The Fire Phone shipped in 2014 with a feature list a mile long. The screen had a 3D effect! There were, like, 400 cameras! There was a whole home screen filled with something called \u00ab\u00a0delighters!\u00a0\u00bb But the Fire Phone was, above all, a way to buy things on Amazon. That was what Bezos wanted, after all. It’s just not what users wanted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Verge <\/em>subscribers, <\/em>don’t fo \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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