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Hands On With the Amazon Fire Phone

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Amazon Fire Phone

The Amazon Fire Phone doesn’t look like anything special from outward appearances, equipped with a 4.7-inch 720p display.

Back

The Fire Phone resembles the Google Nexus 4 with its glass front and backside.

Bottom

Face Detecting Cameras

Face Detecting Cameras

On the front of the Fire Phone, each corner houses a camera with infrared capability. The Fire Phone uses these cameras to determine the position of users’ faces to enable perspective tricks

New Carousel and Gestures

The Fire Phone runs Amazon’s Fire OS with new gestures for interacting with the phone. You can tilt to scroll, twist to bring up contextual menus, and a whole host of features are expected thanks to an open SDK.

Mayday

The live, 24/7 Mayday support makes its way to the Fire Phone. Users are just a button press away from interacting with a real person to help solve all their phone related problems.

Firefly

One of the big new features is Firefly, which uses the camera to recognize real-world objects and provide more information at a glance.