Amazon’s Fire and Ice plans reportedly call for smartphone comeback this year focused on India

You can fight fire with fire... or try to make up for a destructive Fire Phone with a new Ice "lineup", as Amazon purportedly intends to do before long.

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PayPal app version 6.0 leaves Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Amazon Fire Phone

The pal that helps you and many other people pay up is updating its Android and iOS apps. Unlike many other apps, it’s providing customers with a good idea of when to expect an update.Version 6.0 of the app, said to have “a new look and feel,” will head to devices with Android 4.0.3 or later and iOS 9.1 or later. Windows Phone users will end availability for the current version of the app while both ...

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Fire Phone 2.0? Amazon smartphone interests reportedly continue

After months and months of discounts, with Amazon trying to move any remaining stock of its failed Fire Phone experiment, last year we finally saw the handset run out of steam: the company’s inventory looked depleted, and the saga of the Fire Phone appeared to be over. No doubt a costly mistake for Amazon to learn, we wondered ...

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Amazon puts out Fire Phone for good, no sign of looming sequel

Once upon a time available at $650 off-contract and $200 with two-year AT&T pacts, the 3D-enabled Amazon Fire Phone quickly dropped to $450 and $1 respectively, then $199 SIM-free, $179, and finally, $130, with a bundled gratis year of Amazon Prime, normally worth around $100.It’s difficult to quantify ...

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If Amazon discounts the Fire Phone much more, it will be paying you to use one

As Amazon’s Fire Phone started reaching its one-year birthday, it was clear the manufacturer was looking to unload old inventory. The smartphone’s initially reception had been mixed, to put it nicely, and we failed to see the handset catch on with users in quite the way Amazon wanted. That’s led to sale after sale, bringing the phone’s price down into a whole different league than the $650 level where we saw the 32GB Fire Phone debut. Last month those discounts reached their ...

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Amazon’s practically giving the Fire Phone away

One year ago, Amazon’s first foray into the smartphone business was so full of promise. The Fire Phone had yet to debut, and we were curious to see if the retailer could find the same success with phones as it had with tablets. But as we had the opportunity to start interacting with the phone, putting it through its paces, it quickly became clear that the Fire Phone was an interesting concept, but maybe ...

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Purchase the Amazon Fire Phone for 75 percent off in the UK

Amazon’s Fire Phone may not be enjoying the success its manufacturer would like it to, but it’s by no means an inherently bad phone. As we posited in our full review, the phone actually possesses a few neat tricks under the hood, and the specs are in line with some of 2014’s most powerful flagships. The items held the phone back included the price tag and the lack of a tried-and-true ecosystem, and one of those ...

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Amazon Fire Phone hits its lowest price yet; are you swayed?

There are no two ways about it: Amazon screwed up the Fire Phone’s launch. Blame the carrier exclusivity, blame the hardware itself, or blame the higher-than-anticipated price tag – whatever the reason, Amazon took a swing and missed. But in the months since, the company has seems like it might have learned a thing or two from its experience, acknowledging pricing problems, broadening carrier support, and

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Amazon Fire Phone scores pretty substantial update

Amazon entered the smartphone market earlier this year with some big dreams, giving its inaugural Fire Phone some hardware and software that wasn’t quite like anything else out there. Unfortunately, higher-than-expected pricing, combined with carrier exclusivity and some regrettable battery life, ended up souring many potential users to the idea of the phone. Still, Amazon’s done what it can to try and breathe a little life into the Fire Phone,

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Octagonal Androids, luxury smartwatches and SO MUCH MAIL | Pocketnow Weekly 124 (Hangout)

Updated with the HQ audio version of the podcast (download and streaming links) as well as timecodes so you can navigate the whirlwind that is our podcast with ease. As always, thanks for listening, and see you next week!An octagonal Android smartphone, a lawsuit over the term “Milk,” and a phone camera that flips up like a deranged pancake. Oh, and luxury smartwatches. (Luxury smartwatch faces, anyway. Illegal ones. Or something.) Companies have waited until the end of the year to spring all the nonsense on us, it seems – and we’re lapping it up like the grateful tech ...

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Amazon’s failing Fire Phone drops to just $200 off-contract

We knew this day was coming. Ever since we heard of the worrying sales numbers, it was pretty certain to us that a discount was on the way for the phone we called “the right phone at the wrong price” in our full review. That deal is finally now official, the Amazon Fire ...

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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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Disappointing Fire Phone sales costs Amazon big

We just got done looking at Microsoft’s latest earnings statement, and while the mobile side of things didn’t reveal any game-changing success stories, we did see some quite solid growth. Not everyone’s faring quite so well, and earlier today Amazon reported a quarterly loss of $437 million. Now some new details about just where it lost money are coming in, and to the surprise of essentially no one, the Fire Phone is a big part of what’s dragging the company’s finances ...

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Even at reduced prices, the Amazon Fire Phone isn’t worth it

I’ll admit, I wasn’t at all interested in the idea of an Amazon-made smartphone from the start.To date, I’ve owned two Kindle Fire tablets, and 10 times out of 10, I would recommend a Nexus 7 over anything Kindle Fire-branded.No, that’s not my affinity for Nexus and stock Android speaking, and I have nothing against Amazon as a company. In fact, before I purchase anything … ever, I check Amazon’s price first. I’ve been a paying Prime ...

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Failed HTC/Amazon smartphone partnership may have been derailed by AT&T

All too often, when we’re looking at theories concerning an upcoming smartphone, the rumor narrative sort of falls apart once the handset is finally announced. We may hear a number of competing ideas on what to expect, but at that moment when the one correct version is finally confirmed, what happens to all those now-proven-false rumors? More often than not, they’re swiftly forgotten, but that doesn’t mean that their mystery is over. Today we check in on one of those old tales, as a new report attempts to shed a little light on Amazon’s move into the smartphone ...

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