No. I like Nexus phones running stock Android, or phones with good, cheap, solid hardware that can easily be rooted and made to run a custom ROM.<p>The Fire Phone is neither; out of the box it's about as far away from the Nexus experience as it's possible to get, and even if it's easy to ROM it, the price they're charging makes that impractical. The Fire Phone will live and die by their ability to find a receptive audience for their weird features; I'm not in that group.
No, thank you.<p>I will never use a gatekeeper to access Internet.<p>For me Internet should be a network, not a top down centralized service.<p>Amazon Silk means every single page that you visit is registered by an American company and obviously the NSA.<p>At least when I use a conventional browser, they have to work harder to spy on me.
I find any decent phone as good as the next one, all of them offering the handful of features and apps I really use.<p>Which makes my choice of phone more a matter of "lifestyle accessory", and being a sucker for great design, the Fire Phone just seems very plain and "meh" to me.
I wish I could find a poll like this for the iPhone in 2007.<p>It had no carrier subsidies, so was mega expensive. It had no app store, so totally pre the "theres an app for that" phenomena.<p>Corporate IT departments were unfriendly to it.<p>And it didn't offer 3G!<p>Now, I know Apple was able to get away with that because it was <i>inventing the whole category</i>. And that no company, not Apple, nobody, will have the same grace period. (Ask the Palm Pre about that). But I can certainly see some killer UI experiences and awesome integration with Amazon. And honestly I think my wife would consider switching solely for the free photo storage.
No.<p>I am going to move to Mozilla and Linux for as much as I can.<p>My sister gave me her old iPhone (a lovely gift!) and I find it somewhat frustrating to use.<p>I'm not sure I trust Amazon to have my telephony information.<p>Also (and I sY this every time I comment in any Amazon thread in the hope that someone sees it and does something about it) Amazon search is hopelessly broken. Often I abandon a search and go somewhere else to buy stuff because sorting and filtering just doesn't work. I am amazed that someone in search hasn't targetted this. Perhaps Algoli can get this?
I'll have to see it before I totally write it off, but the 3D stuff reminds me of the hype around Nintendo's 3D stuff. Yeah, it was cool, looks great, etc, but ultimately not seamless enough to warrant actually using it long term. And then for the rest of it, it's like picking an Amazon tablet over a regular one, I don't want to be locked into their app store, etc.
I own a Kindle Fire HDX, which is a nice tablet, but really the only reason I own it instead of a regular Android tablet is because Amazon Video is not available on Android. Given that I don't care about video for a tiny phone screen, my answer is a definitive no.<p>The dynamic perspective feature seems like weird UI gimmick. I don't really like head tracking features. I turned that off in my Galaxy S5.<p>Taking a picture of a product is a cool idea, but there's no reason they can't also put that on other phones.<p>Also Amazon never updates their hardware to new versions of the software. I owned the original Kindle Fire and it never got any of the HD or HDX software changes, nothing. Nobody has beaten Apple in this regard, but Android isn't as bad as Amazon's forked version.<p>Finally, the Amazon app store is kind of a desert.<p>I just don't get what they were thinking with this thing. It seems dead on arrival.
Nope.<p>Looks horrendously expensive and only has average specs, significantly worse than the S5 which will probably be my next phone, and it doesn't have CyanogenMod support, an SD card, or a removable battery; not to mention that as it's amazon it's probably locked down to fuck and exists to sell worthless 'cloud'... I'd rather buy an HTC phone than that, which has all those drawbacks but can still have CyanogenMod installed on it, plus isn't funding Amazon...<p>Oh, and apparently it doesn't have the play store, so it running android is essentially worthless, especially if amazon disabled apk installation in the process of locking you into their services. Fire Phone has to be called that because if you try it, you'll get burnt.
If the Amazon phone follows their Kindle line we will see the price rapidly reduce throughout the year, so I'll be interested to see how that changes the poll. Wouldn't change my opinion. I bought a Kindle Fire gen 1 and ended up hardly using it compared to my iPads, so I'm not very curious about the phone, but still interested in how it will affect other people's opinions.
I think the question is whether they are able to position themselves in a way that people can recognize a real additional value. "For normal smart phone stuff I would use my Android phone. But I really also want to do X and that is something only Amazon does well." I don't think they can provide a real USP that can't be copied by the Android and Apple guys fast, though.
I'll be waiting to see if any of the exclusive stuff is more than a gimmick, or if it's actually useful.<p>And then waiting to see when it's available in the UK.