When will people stop building map apps that are reacting to gestures or the device position in a confusing manner? I love my paper map so much! When it lays on the table I can touch it with my finger and it won't wiggle or wobble. I can just use it without fear that one subtle movement from my side will obscure everything I see and I'll have to search the place I were looking for from the beginning.
Amazon Fire Phone
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#212The compelling feature on this phone everyone's missing: Let's say you have to browse through a bunch of stuff on your phone. The very moment you start doing this, you have a problem: There's a #%&! finger covering up the screen now! The idea behind this phone is simple: All browsing of information is done by tilting the screen, leaving the display completely unobstructed... sure, other phones have tried to do this b…
I solved that using a Nexus One until now. it has a trackball. i can scroll content and click any button on the screen with not even smudging it.
but apparently only you and I care about not having a finger on top of what you are reading.
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This is interesting I think... iPad: Kindle Fire, Nexus 7 Apple TV: Kindle Fire TV, Chromecast iTunes: Amazon Prime Streaming TV + now music, Google Play iPhone: Kindle Fire Phone, Nexus 4 I think they're all playing for the same territory. The big difference seems to be that Apple really only sells the technology. Google sells the technology so that they can sell advertising for third party products. Amazon has the…
Amazon is the only one with a physical goods tie-in, but Apple also sells apps, songs, books and films. I think Tim Cook recently mentioned 75 billion app downloads.
Amazon and Google both also sell apps, songs, books, and films. Apple's selection is larger, but they're all somewhat equal in the sense that they have similar offerings.
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#214Sounds like this phone does a good job of solving Amazon's problem of getting customers to buy more from them. I don't see how it makes my life any easier though. 3D? Ok, that is really cool. 2D hasn't really been a limiting factor for me though. One-handed navigation and autoscrolling? Wow, that just sounds terrible. I'm trying to read and my kid bumps my arm. Now where am I on the page? And how do I quickly get bac…
Mayday is actually a killer feature on a phone for Grandma. With 24/7 on-device tech support, relatives would never have to field tech support requests.
or just design it to be easy to use, and teach Grandma how to use it, and then she has time to bake for you
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#215I'm always surprised by Amazon's lack of fanfare. Even for such a huge release, their product page is literally the same as that of something as random as a blanket
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#216My two cents: First, I'm actually surprised as to how much they are selling the dynamic perspective, and I think I'm actually more interested in how well firefly works. Dynamic perspective may be very "cool", but I'm not convinced it's not just another fad --- will it change the way I work with my device? Will it empower people? I don't see it as a transformative technology, and it's almost as gimmicky as (if not as…
3P Android apps will not have access to the "other 4" cameras.
As for the battery life, there have been some amazing initiatives and innovations to squeeze every ounce of juice from it. I wouldn't be surprised if the stats claimed on Amazon.com were indeed right.
Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but I do not represent them, or speak on their behalf.
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> Searching via photos is awesome, but the only use case it seems well suited for is shopping. If I was bitten by a snake, spider, etc. I'd love to be able to snap a picture to quickly identify it and know whether or not to rush to the ER.
I'd probably just use my phone to call 9-1-1.
We'll it's usually advised that if bitten by a spider you should kill/capture it or take a picture so it can be identified and the correct anti-venom administered.
So yes, do call 911, but taking a picture could be potentially life saving.
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> Searching via photos is awesome, but the only use case it seems well suited for is shopping. If I was bitten by a snake, spider, etc. I'd love to be able to snap a picture to quickly identify it and know whether or not to rush to the ER.
Extra steps are always best in an emergency... ~~~ Spider: Have a painful bite on the house! User: "Spider say cheese!" User: "Amazon Phone is this spider poisonous" Amazon Phone: Searching. This Spider does appear to be poisonous. User: "Amazon Phone call Uber 911" Amazon Phone: Calling Uber 911 Uber 911: Can you collect the spider to take to the ER? User: "Yes, I'll do that"
That isn't even remotely true.
Many venoms have large delays, days even sometimes.
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Why does this seem to be targeted at Android? If anything, I would say the price differential between this and good android phones reflects that it might be more an iphone competitor if anything, and so it seems to be more targeted at Apple.
iPhone has the build quality though. This is rubber and glass, not metal. There's also a degree of app quality that iOS still has over Android - I'm an Android user: 'Secret', for example, only just came out, and it's very unstable. This is a mid-range smartphone at a premium price.
I could argue in the same manner about things that Amazon's phone has but the iPhone doesn't --- I just think that the people that are considering an iPhone vs. something else will consider Amazon's phone (along with the high-end expensive android phones). The price differential is a huge factor in determining what products actually compete with one another. Along the same lines, I think this also competes with the expensive android phones --- but (smart) people on the cheaper prepaid plans aren't going to consider the Amazon phone very heavily with the Nexus and Moto phones available. It's clearly not worth it for the huge markup.
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> Searching via photos is awesome, but the only use case it seems well suited for is shopping. If I was bitten by a snake, spider, etc. I'd love to be able to snap a picture to quickly identify it and know whether or not to rush to the ER.
Extra steps are always best in an emergency... ~~~ Spider: Have a painful bite on the house! User: "Spider say cheese!" User: "Amazon Phone is this spider poisonous" Amazon Phone: Searching. This Spider does appear to be poisonous. User: "Amazon Phone call Uber 911" Amazon Phone: Calling Uber 911 Uber 911: Can you collect the spider to take to the ER? User: "Yes, I'll do that"
Identifying (or capturing!) the venomous spider or snake that bit you can mean the difference between them identifying the right antivenom or not. So, yes, surviving the trip to the ER is unaffected, but it might mean the difference between losing a life, a limb, or not.