Fair to say Jeff Bezos had a burning passion for this phone, even if it went down in flames. I'll see myself out. For more fire puns, follow me on twitter @91_tech! Instagram too why not
_"But if you wanted it on contract, you had to sign up with AT&T, at least in the US."_ Believe it or not, a Fire Phone purchased without a contract for $649 (16GB model) or $749 (32GB model) was still locked to AT&T. The product's abysmal sales prompted Amazon to slash the prices and began marketing the non-contract versions unlocked (under a separate ASIN, thereby excluding the terrible reviews from customers who mistakenly thought they were buying a non-carrier-specific product).
@@rubenrodriguez5020 Both apple and Google ripped off amazon since amazon was the first make different size tablet and independent small upgrades and exclusives to each version of the fire computer.
I had one of these. About a year after release, Amazon was selling them with a year of Prime for $99 so basically a free phone since I was going to pay for Prime anyway. I never put a SIM card in it but it worked ok. Nothing to write home about.
@@erickcardona4181 The fire operating system is like a frankenstein android because it runs android generically but not supporting official google frame work so there is are compatibility problems
I remember seeing one once in an Amazon store. I also remember wanting one so bad, and I saved up enough money for one. Then my mom said I couldn’t buy one, so I bought a fire 7. It worked well until my cousin threw it out the window. It still works, but I don’t really use it much.
Yep, and it landed on the edge of a brick from around 5 stories up cracking it along the middle back. Somehow, it survived, apart from the digitizer. I swapped the casing and screen, and now it works.
My mom got this phone, she liked it until the battery died and couldnt get it fixed. AT&T didnt even know it existed when we brought it to take a look at it. She got a new phone
In terms of apps and OEMs, Windows Phone was at its prime in 2012-2013. It could’ve very well had a chance to survive. The thing is, Windows Phone OEMs were in fact targeting all markets (low range, mid range, and high range) in all sorts of countries.
The market is booming, but a lot of the appeal of cheaper androids is that they do run all the apps and games that flagship androids do (aside from really ram-heavy games. I don't think there's much of an appeal for anything that's not android or ios right now.
@@brian_jake Came here to say the same. It doesn't matter how great your software is, if there is no ecosystem to support it...a slow and painful death it will meet. ❤️BB10😭
I bought the Fire Phone when it came out, used it for years, absolutely loved it. Still like it now but it's so outdated that it can't be used. You could easily stick Google services and a proper launcher on it and it was just a normal phone then but the 3D effect was very impressive.
This was a fun phone for me. I got two when it was ultra clearance ($80 I believe). I got two years of prime and put cyanogen mod on it. Used them for a year or two and then sold them on eBay. Made a little bit of a profit when I sold them.
The fire phone... yup... Actually loved that phone! Lol! Bought it in late 2014 and by beginning of 2017 I've went through 3 of them lol the battery just went out and killed the whole phone... but I loved it! It's time Amazon makes another attempt!
Interesting, the battery is the same issue I had with my old Fire tablet... (other than it being a cheap piece of crap in general) it was fine for a while but then suddenly started getting worse and worse until one day I could barely use it at all because it just kept dying I guess Amazon is not good at making batteries
When it became clear that the phone was a failure, I remember them getting really cheap on Amazon up until they were discontinued. I want to say they were going for about $199 at the time. I almost bought one but ended up getting a Moto g instead.
Man I had this phone from 2014 to 2016 and really liked it other than the lack of apps. I was a fan of the simple UI and design of the phone. And the little flick from the sides and tilt to scroll features were hella nice too
Why is the word "ironic* so difficult for people to understand? 90 percent of it's useage online is just flat out wrong. Helpful hints... It does NOT mean coincidence.
I remember the launch. As someone who's in tech but not particularly invested in smartphone interests it struck me that there was a whole lot of attention until just after it launched and then it pretty much dropped off the face of the Earth
So my bf works for Amazon, and an interesting fact is you cant download some of there own apps thru there app store, like Amazon a to z, which is an app for there employees
I had this phone and it was really good,it was fast feature rich and looked awesome but as you've pointed out using amazons version of android ruined it...the 3d wallpaper and ui was very cool...
I had one of these. It was pretty cool to be honest. Bland at times, yeah. But what I really liked was when I sideloaded apps like nova launcher and other google play stuff. It was pretty nifty then. If Amazon made FireOS more android-like while keeping the features it originally had (minus the 3d thing lol)and kept the price low, I feel like they could've done a good job with it. It would have sold well along with their fire tablets. Nowadays, I feel like the "cheap amazon" phones are Blu.
The next big phone flop...the Nintendo phone. The only smartphone to play Switch games.* *This is a joke created by me. I am not associated with Nintendo, and I doubt the Nintendo phone is real.
Have had several for the last 5 years (2 still in Active Service)... The "free" Prime and discounts when I bought it was cool. Under $200 for an Unlocked Phone before taking off the "free" 1 year Prime... $100 wasn't bad in my book. Sure. NOW (2020) The version of Android/FireOS isn't as compatible with various current Apps (came with a version of Jelly Bean, "currently" uses a version of Kit Kat I think. Which doesn't meet the Security/System Requirements.)
Lol im am watching this on my fire 7 tablet. Great for the price and just watching RUclips and the web. Of course i put the google Play store on it . But thanks for the video as i never heard of the fire phone either. New subscriber.
It's really weird but I like it a lot. I remember when I traveled to US and saw this, I knew I'm gonna get one of these from the second-hand market one day. And I actually bought one last year, yeah it's a total flop to those average consumers, but as a phone nerd, I love it so much.
my stepdad has actually been using this phone up till 2018 when the battery died out from so much heat and being charged, he switched to an iphone 6+ thou, but i remember this phone well
My cousin had one and I thought it was really cool and about a year or 2 after she got it I asked where her fire phone was and she tried to avoid the conversation and now I understand why.
I mean, they should just make a budget phone using the fire hardware. And maybe a price point under $150, and they just might be able to make a successful product.
this could work if they did it like there tables make them good cheap little phones, just remove the 5 cameras and allow you to use the google play store also
I had a Amazon fire 7 when I was younger. I found it about a month ago and it feels so slow now 😂. When I use to use it, it had no problems with speed. That shows that tablets and smart phones are progressing fast.
I remember an ad that talked about it's "gee golly whiz bang" feature of being able to take a picture of an ad that had a phone number in it...and being able to dial the number right from the picture. I was sorely unimpressed.
I’ve been rewatching the flash and in S1E11 the flash uses one of these. As soon as I saw it I came right to this video as I’d seen the thumbnail earlier. Weird.
I knew a girl who had it got an internship and really had to work and had to use the phone it wasn't really working for her and what she had to do in the office.
I bought two of these on eBay when they were being liquidated and still got the prime subscription with them, so they were basically free. I remember rooting them and installing a custom rom. If you look on my channel my top video was filmed with it.
Lol I had one of these, I bought it when the price tanked. The hardware tbh was great for the time but the lack of play store and vanilla android killed it for me. Thank God for XDA developers, they made it much more usable.
Lifelong iPhone owner since the original, I picked up one of these Fire phones when the price dropped like crazy to tinker around with Android. Their app store was largely useless. Side loaded the Play store and changed the launcher and not only opened up features much more, but also made it feel pretty usable.
I remember when these were released and considered getting one (mainly for having the e-reader function). But the reviews were bad so I forgot about it. Besides it’s obvious that it was just a vehicle for Amazon to commit consumers to their services alone. But in the end that is what made it fail. People don’t want a proprietary device for a phone. Heck, even an iPhone seemed more “open” then the Fire phone. Will never buy another Amazon device again after buying my son a later version Fire only to have to pay more after opening it so he didn’t have to see an ad every time he used it.
Plainrock124 be like “NO RUclips, NO GMAIL, NO INSTAGRAM, NO TWITTER MAKE ME GO MORE CRAZY THEN 2002 MACBOOK!!!!” Also nice try with coping iphone 6 prototype lcd
The place I learned about this phone was when I got a box of old computer parts from my neighbor And it was in an Amazon box in the tape on the box said fire phone
sorry, I just have to correct you. contactless payment using NFC existed as far back as 2011 with the Galaxy Nexus. I paid with it at a Walgreen's over 10 years ago
Fair to say Jeff Bezos had a burning passion for this phone, even if it went down in flames.
I'll see myself out.
For more fire puns, follow me on twitter @91_tech! Instagram too why not
lmao phone sucked
me when pun
Usually anything with "forgotten" in the title I never forgot. This though, I never knew it existed in the first place!
Are you going to do a review on the ps5 when it comes out if you get one and I been sud snice day 33
_"But if you wanted it on contract, you had to sign up with AT&T, at least in the US."_
Believe it or not, a Fire Phone purchased without a contract for $649 (16GB model) or $749 (32GB model) was still locked to AT&T.
The product's abysmal sales prompted Amazon to slash the prices and began marketing the non-contract versions unlocked (under a separate ASIN, thereby excluding the terrible reviews from customers who mistakenly thought they were buying a non-carrier-specific product).
I just remember MKBHD talking about how people shouldn’t buy it back in the day lol
It is not apple so not wondering why he did not recomend
He didn't even like the LG G8. It was a great phone. He really only supports the main players.
@@rubenrodriguez5020 Both apple and Google ripped off amazon since amazon was the first make different size tablet and independent small upgrades and exclusives to each version of the fire computer.
@@rubenrodriguez5020 Nice joke
@@rubenrodriguez5020?
That ad for the phone at the beginning actually wasn't bad, the "I've been on this earth 9 years" joke won me over.
Yeah, That was a cute line, Made me laugh.
It definitely wasn’t a bad commercial
Yeah no. I cringed so hard.
@Frebs oh, you would be surprised
@Frebs to cancel you
I had one of these. About a year after release, Amazon was selling them with a year of Prime for $99 so basically a free phone since I was going to pay for Prime anyway. I never put a SIM card in it but it worked ok. Nothing to write home about.
I did the same thing. I installed google play and used it until my volume button stopped working.
@@erickcardona4181 The fire operating system is like a frankenstein android because it runs android generically but not supporting official google frame work so there is are compatibility problems
Good thinking.
Expectation: the most fire phone of all time
Reality: a phone that should be set on fire
Bruh lol
IMA JUST MAKE THAT 101 FOR Y'ALL PEOPLE WITH OCD
Samsung Galaxy note 7: hold my c4 Bomb😎😎😎
😂😂😂😂
Why should it be set on fire?
I remember seeing those Fire phone commercials back in the day....and I also remember never meeting anyone who actually bought one.
yeah same
i knew some emo kid back during my freshmen year of high school with one
now im trying to get one myself lol
Like me with foldables
That’s probably why they discontinued them because no one would buy them.
just sold my old fire phone on ebay right as this uploaded
Why did u sell it?
Lol
Sureee
@@sameershafique7518 cause it sucks fam
also money
I remember seeing one once in an Amazon store. I also remember wanting one so bad, and I saved up enough money for one. Then my mom said I couldn’t buy one, so I bought a fire 7. It worked well until my cousin threw it out the window. It still works, but I don’t really use it much.
Cool story Bro.
Thanks
Yep, and it landed on the edge of a brick from around 5 stories up cracking it along the middle back. Somehow, it survived, apart from the digitizer. I swapped the casing and screen, and now it works.
I'm so so sorry, but the "It still works" made me giggle
Kay now that I notice that, it makes me giggle too.
how can it be forgotten if no one knew about it 🤣
lol true
I remember seeing the commercials as a kid and I think my mom's friend had one but aside from that I remembered nothing about it
My mom got this phone, she liked it until the battery died and couldnt get it fixed. AT&T didnt even know it existed when we brought it to take a look at it. She got a new phone
Another weird one would be the HTC First aka “Facebook Phone”
yes, josh should definitely review that one!
Oh I remember the HTC First "Facebook phone" and it's other HTC "Facebook phones" predecessors like the HTC ChaCha and Salsa.
@@DacLMK I had the ChaCha used it for two years.
Oh I forgot about that one!
Even windows phone fell from grace,they would have a chance now if they released the mid to low range market is booming
The problem was apps same to BlackBerry. Windows store was too shallow for many
In terms of apps and OEMs, Windows Phone was at its prime in 2012-2013. It could’ve very well had a chance to survive.
The thing is, Windows Phone OEMs were in fact targeting all markets (low range, mid range, and high range) in all sorts of countries.
The market is booming, but a lot of the appeal of cheaper androids is that they do run all the apps and games that flagship androids do (aside from really ram-heavy games. I don't think there's much of an appeal for anything that's not android or ios right now.
Esther street They don’t run them well though.
@@brian_jake Came here to say the same.
It doesn't matter how great your software is, if there is no ecosystem to support it...a slow and painful death it will meet.
❤️BB10😭
1 view 32 seconds ago, thanks for letting me be early, love your channel, and keep up the good work!
I bought the Fire Phone when it came out, used it for years, absolutely loved it. Still like it now but it's so outdated that it can't be used.
You could easily stick Google services and a proper launcher on it and it was just a normal phone then but the 3D effect was very impressive.
I still use mine today with the launcher hack I am now being forced to switch to a free Samsung s10+ because of att Volte change.
Amazon fire phone damn reminds me of august and September 2019 oof
Boi this thing came out in 2014
@@kilovwdude6457 😂
Kilovw Dude I know it says it in the video it was a joke r/wooosh
@@chvbshjrgbhjfhnmkrtfhgktgv1488 Your joke was so unfunny, it didn't seem like a joke
this phone is like the red phone. alot was promised but little was given...
This was a fun phone for me. I got two when it was ultra clearance ($80 I believe). I got two years of prime and put cyanogen mod on it. Used them for a year or two and then sold them on eBay. Made a little bit of a profit when I sold them.
"I've been alive for 9 years " *has twitter*
sounds like most of twitter tbh
if you think about it. the kid aged 15 this year
Remember how hyped up it was, then it just died after a few months. first btw
You got first
few weeks lol
The fire phone... yup... Actually loved that phone! Lol! Bought it in late 2014 and by beginning of 2017 I've went through 3 of them lol the battery just went out and killed the whole phone... but I loved it! It's time Amazon makes another attempt!
Interesting, the battery is the same issue I had with my old Fire tablet... (other than it being a cheap piece of crap in general) it was fine for a while but then suddenly started getting worse and worse until one day I could barely use it at all because it just kept dying
I guess Amazon is not good at making batteries
I Was a fire phone user. It was a great smartphone experience!
Cool 😇. mrwhosetheboss needs to add this to his smartphone failures!!
He actually did on one of his smartphone fails video
@@nanparayeah oh! I probably missed it 😅
He still hasn’t done a windows phone in his smartphone failures
@@lifeisshrt7929 he already did on his 12 smartphone fails video
@@lifeisshrt7929 because it wasnt a fail (my fav phone is microsoft sorry)
I miss the Amazon underground section of the store, it was amazing!
When it became clear that the phone was a failure, I remember them getting really cheap on Amazon up until they were discontinued. I want to say they were going for about $199 at the time. I almost bought one but ended up getting a Moto g instead.
He made this on my birthday so the video immediately attracted me 💀
0:54 That face that you make when you realize your kids are advertisements
I only remember this phone from that commercial 6 years ago 😂
I only remembered the ad cuz it had Minecraft and I got excited when I saw that in 2015 but I didn’t even care or know about the phone
Man I had this phone from 2014 to 2016 and really liked it other than the lack of apps. I was a fan of the simple UI and design of the phone. And the little flick from the sides and tilt to scroll features were hella nice too
Why is the word "ironic* so difficult for people to understand? 90 percent of it's useage online is just flat out wrong. Helpful hints... It does NOT mean coincidence.
The only thing I liked about this.
Amazon prime for free with this.
I remember the launch. As someone who's in tech but not particularly invested in smartphone interests it struck me that there was a whole lot of attention until just after it launched and then it pretty much dropped off the face of the Earth
Unrelated:
I have an “old” kindle fire. Although I only use it for Talking Tom Jetski 2.
Edit: I have it online and I can use it for like anything.
So my bf works for Amazon, and an interesting fact is you cant download some of there own apps thru there app store, like Amazon a to z, which is an app for there employees
I actually really wanted one of these back then..
Well, now's your chance.
This brings back odd memories 🥴
I had this phone and it was really good,it was fast feature rich and looked awesome but as you've pointed out using amazons version of android ruined it...the 3d wallpaper and ui was very cool...
I remember someone called HP with this obscure OS wanting to install printing software, he was sad to hear it's not supported.
That phone was cool it could have been the 3rd major mobile os, if only it had more app support and was much cheaper
I had one of these. It was pretty cool to be honest. Bland at times, yeah. But what I really liked was when I sideloaded apps like nova launcher and other google play stuff. It was pretty nifty then. If Amazon made FireOS more android-like while keeping the features it originally had (minus the 3d thing lol)and kept the price low, I feel like they could've done a good job with it. It would have sold well along with their fire tablets. Nowadays, I feel like the "cheap amazon" phones are Blu.
The next big phone flop...the Nintendo phone. The only smartphone to play Switch games.*
*This is a joke created by me. I am not associated with Nintendo, and I doubt the Nintendo phone is real.
Dang, I remember when i kept seeing these ads feels so old
Have had several for the last 5 years (2 still in Active Service)... The "free" Prime and discounts when I bought it was cool. Under $200 for an Unlocked Phone before taking off the "free" 1 year Prime... $100 wasn't bad in my book.
Sure. NOW (2020) The version of Android/FireOS isn't as compatible with various current Apps (came with a version of Jelly Bean, "currently" uses a version of Kit Kat I think. Which doesn't meet the Security/System Requirements.)
I knew comment section will be full with "Samsung Note 7 FIRE Phone"
Lol im am watching this on my fire 7 tablet. Great for the price and just watching RUclips and the web. Of course i put the google Play store on it . But thanks for the video as i never heard of the fire phone either. New subscriber.
I really like that you found your passion, keep posting and I'll keep watching, King!
It's really weird but I like it a lot. I remember when I traveled to US and saw this, I knew I'm gonna get one of these from the second-hand market one day. And I actually bought one last year, yeah it's a total flop to those average consumers, but as a phone nerd, I love it so much.
my stepdad has actually been using this phone up till 2018 when the battery died out from so much heat and being charged, he switched to an iphone 6+ thou, but i remember this phone well
My cousin had one and I thought it was really cool and about a year or 2 after she got it I asked where her fire phone was and she tried to avoid the conversation and now I understand why.
NFC and mobile payments were around much longer than the iPhone 6. Think like Nexus S and Google wallet.
Apple is never first to anything.
I mean, they should just make a budget phone using the fire hardware. And maybe a price point under $150, and they just might be able to make a successful product.
Nice video josh
I remember when I got this phone for my bday and I opened it and it came broken in the box
What kinda person gives you a broken phone for your birthday? Might as well give you a shiny glass paperweight...
@JohnSpy TM Well yes, I was just pointing out the irony... Amazon messing up the delivery of their own phone, lol
this could work if they did it like there tables make them good cheap little phones, just remove the 5 cameras and allow you to use the google play store also
I remember when this came out, only because of Hilary Duff’s All About You music video 😂😂😂
I remember looking at this wrong here and it was exclusive to AT&T and they had it for sale for $.99 on a two-year contract
I remember it. You a bit younger so it was not aimed to your age group when it released...it was damn expensive. And locked to At&t. it sucked
That is one of the coolest android phones I’ve ever seen.
How did you not know this existed? This was marketed by Amazon up the wazoo at the time. It was plastered all over their site.
I saw the commercials and really wanted to trade in my iPhone 5s for this. I'm super glad that didn't happen.
Apple still sells 4.7 inch 720p phones (iPhone se 2020) for those who feel nostalgic of 2014.
Windows phone was actually good, the only problem was lack of apps
Amazon lost millions on this phone? God I feel so bad for Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world
My friend had one of these as his first phone but gave up on it because it didn’t have a lot of apps and he generally had issues with it.
I had a Amazon fire 7 when I was younger. I found it about a month ago and it feels so slow now 😂. When I use to use it, it had no problems with speed. That shows that tablets and smart phones are progressing fast.
I remember an ad that talked about it's "gee golly whiz bang" feature of being able to take a picture of an ad that had a phone number in it...and being able to dial the number right from the picture.
I was sorely unimpressed.
I’ve been rewatching the flash and in S1E11 the flash uses one of these. As soon as I saw it I came right to this video as I’d seen the thumbnail earlier. Weird.
OMG I remember seeing it at an AT&T store when I was in Vegas (2014)
I knew a girl who had it got an internship and really had to work and had to use the phone it wasn't really working for her and what she had to do in the office.
I still have mine and I still use it. I get asked all the time about it. I like the phone. I like being different
I definitely remember when this was a thing and lowkey wanting but glad I didn’t and got the iPhone 6 instead
Am I the only one who is actually attracted to the 3d display?
Just when I'm about to turn in for the night because it's already 2:05am, Josh drops a new video 😅
PS: gosh I'm too early lol
Sleep can wait :)
Oh yes lol
I don’t need sleep I need answers
I love the 3d effect that phone had. I wish the phones today could do that.
The 3D aspect is really neat gimmick or not lol
I actually remember these commercials. I actually thought it was just a prime advertisements back in the day lol.
I bought two of these on eBay when they were being liquidated and still got the prime subscription with them, so they were basically free. I remember rooting them and installing a custom rom. If you look on my channel my top video was filmed with it.
I had one for about a year, in my opinion it wasn’t good too many faults and It was always slow
Amazon's naming scheme for their Fire devices are so weird. The name Kindle Fire X 8.9 is just depressingly long.
I doth think they name their devices like that anymore.
Man. If i knew i wouldnt have got a kindle!
Check out the Facebook phone/htc first
I had one back then
I used to want on of these until I read reviews
Lol I had one of these, I bought it when the price tanked. The hardware tbh was great for the time but the lack of play store and vanilla android killed it for me. Thank God for XDA developers, they made it much more usable.
If live to see the first Google phone
It didn't sell like fire, it sold like a dumpster fire.
Nice joke :-D
i remember when these came out
Lifelong iPhone owner since the original, I picked up one of these Fire phones when the price dropped like crazy to tinker around with Android. Their app store was largely useless. Side loaded the Play store and changed the launcher and not only opened up features much more, but also made it feel pretty usable.
I remember when these were released and considered getting one (mainly for having the e-reader function). But the reviews were bad so I forgot about it. Besides it’s obvious that it was just a vehicle for Amazon to commit consumers to their services alone. But in the end that is what made it fail. People don’t want a proprietary device for a phone. Heck, even an iPhone seemed more “open” then the Fire phone. Will never buy another Amazon device again after buying my son a later version Fire only to have to pay more after opening it so he didn’t have to see an ad every time he used it.
Plainrock124 be like “NO RUclips, NO GMAIL, NO INSTAGRAM, NO TWITTER MAKE ME GO MORE CRAZY THEN 2002 MACBOOK!!!!” Also nice try with coping iphone 6 prototype lcd
i have one😂 no for real
I still have mine
Man, i just discovered your channel with the netbooks video, and i'm loving all your content so far! Obviously already subscribed!
I remember the commercials.
The place I learned about this phone was when I got a box of old computer parts from my neighbor And it was in an Amazon box in the tape on the box said fire phone
sorry, I just have to correct you.
contactless payment using NFC existed as far back as 2011 with the Galaxy Nexus.
I paid with it at a Walgreen's over 10 years ago
I didn't even know a fire phone know it existed.
I still don't think Amazon should name their products "Fire". The phrase "Amazon Fire" triggers my anxiety about climate change and deforestation.
i have it lol
Not forgotten by me. I loved this thing.
Amazon's phone... sure l'll know about it. Because that's commercial tell me about it..
Who's still using Amazon fire phone?