Amazon Announces the Fire Phone

[NewbieCanada]

Lol 35,000 phones sold. Apple 5S sold 9 million on the release weekend.

Amazon Fire phone should have been an Amazon premium paid APP.

The article actually says it's 35,000 as the estimated maximum possible sales.

The Guardian article then revealed that there are between 175m and 177m smartphones in use in the USA, which suggests we're looking at about 26,000 handsets total.

This figure was then adjusted for 'under-indexing', i.e. when people might be using their phones for purposes other than just browsing the (ad-filled) web, bringing the sum up to about 33,000.

"Therefore even allowing for margins of error, it seems unlikely - based on Chikita's data and the ComScore data - that there were more than about 35,000 Fire Phones in use after those 20 days," says Charles Arthur, Guardian technology editor.

 

[12vElectronics]

The article actually says it's 35,000 as the estimated maximum possible sales.

Ya, I know. What's your point?

 

[NewbieCanada]

Ya, I know. What's your point?

That it's likely they sold even fewer than 35,000. And I enjoy a good pile-on.

 

[aneftp]

I do not think they make a profit off the hardware sale of the kindle fire. They bank on people buying from amazon and their app store.

Amazon cannot keep barely breaking even on all their products.

At some point they have to want to make more profits.

It's like Samsung. Sprint CEO said iPhone cost 40% more than any other phone. Samsung gained market share by giving carriers really good deals on the galaxy s1,s2, s3. We all know carriers paid significantly less than msrp for those phones.

Samsung eventually has jacked up their S5 prices to match iPhone prices and doubt they are giving carriers much of a discount anymore.

 

[Bacong]

bump lol

 

[Lloydbm41]

bump lol

Funny that you bumped this thread, because it is on sale again today only for $189 unlocked with a year of prime included.

 

[gotluck]

apparently you can get play store / services on this now

 

[mattopotamus]

apparently you can get play store / services on this now

You have always been able to sideload the play store, but apps that rely on google services framework will not work (which is actually a lot of apps)

 

[gotluck]

You have always been able to sideload the play store, but apps that rely on google services framework will not work (which is actually a lot of apps)

could have sworn I read they got that working too

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2qfd3a/you_can_now_install_google_play_services_on_the/

 

[Dontazemebro]

$50 and a 1 year subscription and I'm sold.

 

[mattopotamus]

$50 and a 1 year subscription and I'm sold.

aka if they pay you to use the phone

 

[Hastings101]

I bought one today just for kicks and a year of free Prime. Worst case scenario I wasted 80 bucks and have another backup phone, maybe someone will figure out how to throw a custom rom on there one day.

 

[iBlazed]

Funny that you bumped this thread, because it is on sale again today only for $189 unlocked with a year of prime included.

In a way it's tempting because my prime membership renews on the 23rd. But on the other hand, ew....

 

[Lloydbm41]

I bought one today just for kicks and a year of free Prime. Worst case scenario I wasted 80 bucks and have another backup phone, maybe someone will figure out how to throw a custom rom on there one day.

I thought about it, but I need another phone like I need another hole in my head. And if XDA hasn't provided a ROM by now, doubt anyone will bother. Kinda sucks, because the Fire Phone could be a really nice mid-to upper-tier vanilla Android phone.