If you're looking to get your hands on the Amazon Fire phone, now is your chance.
AT&T on Friday began exclusively selling Amazon's first-ever smartphone in stores and online. The 32GB handset will set you back $200 with a two-year contract, or $27.09 a month for the next two years with AT&T's Next installment plan. There's also a 64GB version available for $299 or $31.25 a month with AT&T Next.
The handset received a "good" rating of 3.5 out of five stars in PCMag's review, earning high marks for its solid build and unique features. But, as we noted in the review, the phone is very focused on selling you things from Amazon and the app selection is more limited than what you'll find on standard Android devices.
Spec-wise, the Fire phone sports a 4.7-inch HD LCD display with 1,280-by-720 resolution at 315 pixels per inch and runs a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, Adreno 330 GPU, and 2GB of RAM. It has a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, and records in 1080p at 30 fps from the front- and rear-facing shooters.
The device can automatically back up your photos and videos to Amazon Cloud Drive, which will be accessible on the Fire Phone, other Amazon devices, or Cloud Drive apps. All Fire Phone buyers will get a free year of Amazon Prime, as well as cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with the Fire phone.
Other features include Mayday, the live customer support option that debuted on the Kindle Fire HDX tablet and Firefly, which lets you point your Fire Phone at "over 100 million items" and get an identification in seconds. There's also X-ray for deeper info about music, videos, and books; ASAP, which learns what movies and shows you like and gets them ready ahead of time to cut down on buffering; and Second Screen, which lets you use your Fire Phone as a remote.
"We can't wait for customers to experience Amazon Fire for themselves," Amazon Fire Vice President Ian Freed said in a statement. "Fire offers an amazing value for customers with innovative features."
Meanwhile, if you're looking for a navigation app on your new Amazon Fire Phone, MapQuest on Friday launched an "enhanced device-specific navigation app" that has been optimized for Amazon's handset. The app is available for download in the Amazon Appstore.
Amazon this week beefed up the Fire Phone app selection with new additions like Skype, Craigslist, eBay, Fandango, Kik, the news streaming service Trove, TV Guide, and WhitePages as well as games like Rubik's Cube, action-adventure thriller République, and puzzler Amazing. The company also recently released a new Android and Fire Phone app, dubbed Amazon Wallet, which lets you scan gift, reward, and loyalty cards with your phone and save them in the Amazon cloud for easy access.
For more, see Amazon Fire Phone vs. Samsung Galaxy S5: Specs Compared.