Amazon admits Fire Phone failings: “We didn’t get the price right”

Last week, Amazon shared its most recent financial data with investors, reporting a sizable quarterly loss that was in no way helped out by disappointing Fire Phone sales. In fact, unsold Fire Phone inventory was practically piling up in the company’s warehouses, a situation that cost Amazon to the tune of $170 million. Now Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Devices David Limp is speaking up about what went wrong with the Fire Phone, and he’s come to the same realization it seems like ...

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Amazon Fire Phone review: the right phone at the wrong price

The long-rumored, long-awaited “Amazon Phone” is finally here, and it’s a doozy in more ways than one. Over the past week of testing, we’ve shown you its most fun features and run through its camera capabilities, and we’ve taken your questions ...

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“Hotness” in the house: Amazon Fire Phone unboxing & first look (Video)

Those quotes up there in the title do more than apologize for our unoriginal, lame pun: they acknowledge a truth that’s gotta be tough for Amazon to swallow. The company’s first smartphone, which we laid hands on last week, has seen mixed reviews in its first wave of press.There are good reasons for that. With a dubious exclusivity ...

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Amazon Fire phone: better for Amazon or the consumer?

For literally years now, rumors of an Amazon-built smartphone have spread around the web, making the occasional headline along the way. No matter how many times Amazon denied the rumors of an in-house smartphone, the rumors continued to surface. And in recent months, word and more specific details picked up.Today, Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos took the stage in Seattle, Washington to make the e-commerce site’s smartphone official. Dubbed the

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