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I recently received my chromecast from amazon. It works well with my Xoom and Netflix sent to my older 40 inch lcd flatscreen. $35 for chromecast at amazon and $24 for 12 month subscription to Netflix on ebay makes for fairly cheap TV and movies.
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I ordered mine on Amazon and got an email that they had no idea when it would ship. Several days later I received an email that it would arrive by xxx date and ship xxx date. A day later I got an email saying it would be October. I cancelled and ordered on Google play store and after a week with no shipping information I called Bestbuy after seeing a tweet from Droid Life saying BB was back in stock. They did in fact have it so I bought it and cancelled on google play.
That was about a month ago. I love it and makes cable/dish seem like a waste of money. I've also got HD bunny ears that get me 5 PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW and a couple new ones. Its enough to give me a taste of commercials and turn it off.
When I bought it from bestbuy the lady asked for my email. Later that day I received an email with instructions to redeem my three months of Netflix. I had heard that the promo had already expired and wasn't able to verify the promo code worked. I'll be checking the next few bills.
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Amazon Fire Phone, 32GB (AT&T) by Amazon (Jul 25, 2014)
$649.00 - $749.00 with contract
Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on July 25, 2014.
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$649.00 new without contract
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Amazon Fire Phone, 64GB (AT&T) by Amazon (Jul 25, 2014)
$649.00 - $749.00 with contract
Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on July 25, 2014.
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$749.00 new without contract
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The phone will cost $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64 GB on AT&T, according to the carrier's site.
Seems really expensive to me given it's specs and the fact that it does not run the Play store and likely locked to AT&T with a locked bootloader.
This is not a Galaxy S5. People expected this phone to be priced more like a Google Nexus or Kindle (ad subsidized), but all they ended up with was run of the mill AT&T pricing.
The functionality is cool but at this price I wonder who is going to buy this phone. At this price, people who want an Android will stick with LG or Samsung, and the others will get an iPhone... who is going to go with Amazon? What is the selling feature.. being able to play with maps in 3D?
brunes said:
Seems really expensive to me given it's specs and the fact that it does not run the Play store and likely locked to AT&T with a locked bootloader.
This is not a Galaxy S5. People expected this phone to be priced more like a Google Nexus or Kindle (ad subsidized), but all they ended up with was run of the mill AT&T pricing.
The functionality is cool but at this price I wonder who is going to buy this phone. At this price, people who want an Android will stick with LG or Samsung, and the others will get an iPhone... who is going to go with Amazon? What is the selling feature.. being able to play with maps in 3D?
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Yea I was expecting something more like Moto G or Nexus Pricing. Thats WAY to much for a phone. I`d rather have the new iPhone for amount of money, And I`m an Android person
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They're selling a phone with a 720p screen for the price of my Note 3. Fo reals?!
Facebook fone v2.0. or maybe v0.1.2.
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They're selling a phone with a 720p screen for the price of my Note 3. Fo reals?!
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A 720p display that's only 4,7" is not really a problem.
I was a big fan of the LG 3D and moved on to the LG 3D MAX. moved away from the 3D MAX due utter lack of support from LG in terms of software upgrades. Was looking forward to this phone since the rumours started as I loved the 3D technology. Unlike many people, I had no issues whatsoever in viewing 3D on the phones.
This phone turned out to be a whimper instead of a loud bang!
schubeir
m4tt94 said:
A 720p display that's only 4,7" is not really a problem.
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Agreed. I don't even notice any pixels on my Note II with same resolution but much larger screen. Once thing I don't understand is why they are still using 4.2.2 as base android branch. What's so difficult to move to newer versions? With the growing popularity of wearable devices which need Blue LE. They should at least use 4.3 as baseline.
I was very skeptic that amazon would launch this thing subsidized like it did with the kindle since probably everyone involved knew the risk of the phone becoming the cheap powerful phone everyone is flashing custom ROMs to instead of using the heavy data mining fireOS that would pay for the devices.
But amazon went the exact other way this time and with these prices its obviously making money with each phone sold, much like apple, while shipping an almost generic slab with no custom hardware besides 4 extra cameras for a laggy 3D UI effect, unlike apple with all its custom hardware and design.
IMHO this thing aint gonna sell squat, so I'm gonna wait until bezos panics and makes it $99 unlocked.
Then I will honor the deal by wiping out that spyware crap it comes with
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I don't know how to delete my question, but it has already been asked elsewhere, apologies. If an admin could please delete this, I'd appreciate it, thank you.
I work for amazon and supposedly the phone will be significantly cheaper for employees just don't know by how much. they are also supposed to be giving us extra incentives for us to buy it.
A tablet is One thing But a Phone? This will have the same fate as the Facebook phone. Take away the Amazon apps and this thing is just another brick in the bunch. That 3d effect might be cool for a little bit but I bet i gets anouying after a while and its style looks Ugly. DONT GET ME STARTED IN THE PRICE. It is almost guaranteed it will be locked better than Ft. knox. Dont waste money on this Amazon, spend it on the Drones and just release the apps on Android, Windows and Apple Youll make more money that way.9
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The facebook phone was incredibly half-assed compared to this.
The problem with the FP is price and price alone, everything else can be forgiven but the price is just batcrap insane, what were they thinking? did they not learn anything from the first iphone price? for the record that one too was at&t-only and it didn't sell well until apple dropped the price.
For amazon to get the marketshare it wants this thing should be $200 unlocked
Mine will be here today, paid $0 out the door went with the monthly ATT Next deal so I will at least only have to wait a year to upgrade again instead of two years as in the past. If it weren't for the free Amazon Prime for a year, since I do so much business with them each month, I probably would have passed on this phone but my S3 is messed up and I wanted something different. This will definitely be different.
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Mine will be here today, paid $0 out the door went with the monthly ATT Next deal so I will at least only have to wait a year to upgrade again instead of two years as in the past. If it weren't for the free Amazon Prime for a year, since I do so much business with them each month, I probably would have passed on this phone but my S3 is messed up and I wanted something different. This will definitely be different.
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So let me get this straight, for a $99 Prime account you went ahead and bought the biggest piece of crap phone and signed up for 2 years?
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No, one year of prime + signed up for one year of ATT Next. Regardless, the phone is going back tomorrow since Amazon refuses to return my phone calls, answer my emails, and their "Mayday" button isn't working at the moment on said piece of **** phone.
Edit: and I haven't paid anything yet. I am returning this dogpile, if ATT wants to pro-rate me as part of their "Next" plan, they will be talking to my lawyers for teaming up with Amazon for this crap.
The Fire phone price dropped to $449 and those who bought it soon before the drop (for the higher price) can ask for a refund and Amazon will most often acknowledge that!
Fire sale
Amazon is now offering this unlocked/no contract for $199 WITH a year of Amazon prime ($99 value).
http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-Phone-32GB-Unlocked/dp/B00OC0USA6/
Enjoy...
$100 quad core phone!!
All we need now is boot loader unlock and CM12!
I just bought it and I'm on CDMA.
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$100 quad core phone!!
All we need now is boot loader unlock and CM12!
I just bought it and I'm on CDMA.
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Yeah this is pretty much a no brainier for anyone with an Amazon Prime membership up for renewal anytime soon. I ordered mine this morning it will be here Black Friday !
Amazon Prime was something I was going to renew anyway for $108.25 after tax. For $31.74 more I got The 32 GB phone unlocked new, an okay charger, an okay set of earbuds, and a damn solid USB cable. Anyone know how much longer people that buy new amazon phones have to redeem their 1-year offers, because I'm seriously tempted to buy another...
Also I'm trying to side-load the play store but running into white screens, any ideas?
We don't get the prime offer in the UK but I was tempted to get another fire for my wife as its so much better than anything else for the money.
You might need a specific version of gapps. Or try clearing cache and data once it's installed.
Here's my final solution to white screen problem with ATT locked FP from my thread.
1.Factory Reset
1.Root with Kingroot>
2. Install Safestrap
3. Flash the flashable 4.6.1 stock image with a flashable SuperSU
4.Install google services apk
5.Profit:good:
Make sure you disable the 2 System Updates, Amazon Device Client, DCP Platform Contracts.
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phone is rock solid so is the new CM11 ROM
I got rid of the back/home/list button strip to get more screen real estate.. paid 140 with prime. cancelled netflix for amazon video so some more savings there.. great deal
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Anyone know how much longer people that buy new amazon phones have to redeem their 1-year offers, because I'm seriously tempted to buy another...
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Not sure what you are asking. When you buy the phone with a free year of Prime, the free year is redeemed immediately i.e. if you don't have Prime right now you start getting a free year immediately, and if you already have Prime you get another year added whenever your current membership is added. As far as I know, if you buy 3 phones you get 3 free years but you get them added to your account now, you don't redeem them later.
You can't, for example, get a Fire Phone this week and then redeem your Prime membership in 3 months. However you can give a NEW Fire Phone to someone else and they get the membership. I bought my daugher a Fire Phone for her birthday, but I bought it with my account so she wouldn't get any emails or see it in her devices etc. As soon as we got the Fire Phone we called Amazon and had the phone (and the free year of Prime) moved to her account.
If you are asking, how long will Amazon keep offering the free year of Prime with a Fire Phone? The answer is, only Amazon knows.
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Not sure what you are asking. When you buy the phone with a free year of Prime, the free year is redeemed immediately i.e. if you don't have Prime right now you start getting a free year immediately, and if you already have Prime you get another year added whenever your current membership is added. As far as I know, if you buy 3 phones you get 3 free years but you get them added to your account now, you don't redeem them later.
You can't, for example, get a Fire Phone this week and then redeem your Prime membership in 3 months. However you can give a NEW Fire Phone to someone else and they get the membership. I bought my daugher a Fire Phone for her birthday, but I bought it with my account so she wouldn't get any emails or see it in her devices etc. As soon as we got the Fire Phone we called Amazon and had the phone (and the free year of Prime) moved to her account.
If you are asking, how long will Amazon keep offering the free year of Prime with a Fire Phone? The answer is, only Amazon knows.
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Buy a new phone, and don't decide to right away activate it.
So example, if you buy a new Toshiba Encore Windows 8 tablet that came with an offer for free $25 Windows Store Credit on eBay, no matter what time of the year you bought it, you had/have until October 31 2015 to register your tablet and get the credit. So if I bought the tablet inMarch, as long as I didn't redeem the offer, I still had months before I reached the deadline for the offer.
Now I bought a Fire Phone on eBay, and almost immediately activated the phone and got my 1 year of prime extended. Now assume sometime in the near future I buy another Fire Phone, new, with the promise that it comes with another year of prime. About how long do you have to turn it on/redeem the offer before Amazon no longer authorizes their offer? If you didn't buy your phone through Amazon, but through a reseller, the serial # to that phone wouldn't automatically be registered to your Amazon account, you'd have to set it up...
But theres going to be a point in time when registering un-opened/un-used phones will no longer authorize an approval for 1-year of Prime requests. I'd like to know when that deadline is so I could plan gift-giving around it, or avoid future "New" Fire Phones with promises of a free year of prime.
Chocolina, I have not seen amazon clarify, and I couldn't find an answer on the internet. I SUSPECT that if you buy a fire phone from Amazon and specify that it is a gift, Amazon will be contractually obligated to offer a free year of prime whenever the final user decides to activate it. That obligation would exist because Amazon told you that the phone comes with a free year of prime. You really need to read the fine print if you plan on buying a fire phone now but not gifting it soon.
On the other hand, Amazon may have a different deal with bulk resellers (ie the reseller may be told their phones only have a free year until a certain date), and then amazon man not be obligated to offer the free year.
FYI a few months ago the fire phone had an OS update and Google apps didn't work anymore. There were a couple of weeks with much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth until people got them working again. Given that another update may break Google apps again, possibly permanently, a fire phone may not be an ideal gift.
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Make sure you disable the 2 System Updates, Amazon Device Client, DCP Platform Contracts.
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Just got mine as well, haven't even connected it to WiFi yet. Can I disable these apps prior to rooting, or do I need to root to disable them?
It's all time low today. $120 on ebay with prime.
Caution! Like many others, I purchased two fire phones via eBay from a seller named qualitycellz for $120 each. The phones were sealed in the original retail boxes. Upon registering the phones to my Amazon account I did not receive the additional years of prime. I reached out to Amazon and received the following response last night. I contacted the seller on eBay for a refund and have not yet received a response after two days.
Amazon Response:
Hello,
I'm sorry to hear you haven't receive the Prime membership associated with Fire Phones you purchased.
I'd like to inform that Amazon and AT&T are no longer selling the Fire Phone.
Only purchases made from Amazon or AT&T authorized resellers were eligible for the limited time offer of a full year of Prime with the purchase of a Fire Phone.
Third-party sellers are not authorized to make this offer in connection with the sale of the device.
Further, I checked your account and see that the Fire Phones (XXXX and XXXX) was purchased from a third-party seller.
Since you purchased the Fire Phone from third-party seller, your device is not eligible for free Prime Membership.
If the seller (from you purchased) listed the device with free prime membership, please contact them directly as they listed the promotion.
If they aren't able to help you with this, you can return the Phone to them for full refund.
If you've anymore queries, you can always contact us via email or phone by visiting the below link and we'll help you right away.
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If the reseller mentioned prime in listing you can return, eBay will even sort this out for you. If prime wasn't mentioned I think your knackered. Sorry.
I had bought them from the same seller and did receive the free year of prime with both phones. Once Amazon stopped selling the phone, the free prime offer may have gone with it.
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If the reseller mentioned prime in listing you can return, eBay will even sort this out for you. If prime wasn't mentioned I think your knackered. Sorry.
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Yes, the auction title and description clearly stated that prime was included. In addition, a label was applied to the packaging for each phone that included instructions for registering the phone to receive one year of prime. I have notified eBay and the seller and initiated a refund/return request.
Thousands including me, received prime with Fire Phones purchased from qualitycellz after Amazon and AT&T stopped selling the Fire Phone. Although the seller will have to issue you a refund, I think Amazon is responsible for you not receiving prime on your two phone.
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Thousands including me, received prime with Fire Phones purchased from qualitycellz after Amazon and AT&T stopped selling the Fire Phone. Although the seller will have to issue you a refund, I think Amazon is responsible for you not receiving prime on your two phone.
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I agree! I wanted to make people aware of Amazon's policy change as there are still many current eBay auctions promising prime.
Don't know for sure, but eBay feedback mentioned that Amazon imposed a cut off date of 9/30/2015 for honoring Prime as a result of Fire Phones purchased from third-party sellers.
According to amazon's response NO one other than themselves or at&t has the ability to sell the phone with prime bundled. But that got to be wrong. Ive seen it offered on multiple sites for minths now. Surely we wouldve heard something before today.
Also, given amazons great customer service, Im surprised they didnt just give you a year regardless.
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Don't know for sure, but eBay feedback mentioned that Amazon imposed a cut off date of 9/30/2015 for honoring Prime as a result of Fire Phones purchased from third-party sellers.
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I registered them on 9/29 and did not receive prime.
I'm really sorry for you. That means the info on eBay feedback was incorrect. Qualitycellz has a really bad problem on their hands and will have to deal with many complaints. I hope for your sake that once you complain you get a full refund (and maybe also get to keep the phone).
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Like you, I also fell for this trap, purchasing two of the phones from qualitycellz.
And, not only am I stuck without the 2 years of Prime I thought I had, one of my phones arrived completely broken. The back was ripped off, showing the guts of the phone, and the screen was warped. Oh, and it did not power on, even after charging. I've contacted the seller, but haven't heard back yet.
I have been an eBay customer for over 10 years, and though I've had a few minor issues in the past, I've never encountered anything of this magnitude. The feedback system is supposed to protect the buyer; but in this case, it was no help, as I bought the phone before the "Prime expiration date" (Sept. 30) and tried to activate it afterwards (Oct. 1). And, the seller conveniently failed to mention the offer expired.
I'm usually over over-cautious about these "great" deals on eBay, but they got me this time.
Please be warned.
I purchased from the same seller, I received, unlocked and registered with Amazon and get my 1 year on 9/28. Did you unlock it or you went with AT&T?
The "no-Prime issue" is starting to surface elsewhere. See http://slickdeals.net/f/8106350-amazon-fire-phone-64gb-4g-lte-at-t-unlocked-smartphone-w-prime-warranty-149-99-free-shipping-ebay-daily-deal-10-price-drop?v=1&page=2
Glad I got my emails confirming my two years of prime. Sucks that many are having problems, especially when prime was on sale for $70 or so.
FWIW, I think eBay sellers are left holding the bags when Amazon pulls the rug under them.
I wonder if this means we'll be seeing some $25 Fire Phones on eBay now.
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I wonder if this means we'll be seeing some $25 Fire Phones on eBay now.
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Unfortunate for those who are left holding the bag . . . but I might actually buy another if that happens. Got my kids 2 cheap no contract phones that we never activated to use as music players last Xmas and wish these had been floating around then.
I came really close to buying one from that seller when it dropped to $110. But its like i said earlier, why is the issue being reported now? These phones have been advertised by 3rd party ebay sellers since july. So unless a lot of buyers decided to keep it quiet (not likely) then of course some of these sellers sold phones bundled with a year of prime, right?
I could see where this seller in particular sold them with no prime, but Im baffled that only at&t and amazon can sell the prime service. Im pretty sure that wasnt the case last summer.
I think Amazon gave these sellers til 9/30 to get rid of the inventory. Amazon needs to close the book and account for all the Prime before new fiscal year.
I was finally contacted by the eBay seller tonight. They offered me a 20% refund if I wanted to keep the phones, or a full refund if I wished to return them. The seller explained that they have been trying to convince Amazon to honor the promotion but they would not budge.
So my wife bought me a 360 first gen off amazon and didn't pay attention that it wasn't amazon or Motorola that was selling it. So moto won't fix my screen with blue dots now. I don't get it, they acknowledge it is their device and serial and that it's genuine, but won't cover it since I apparently bought it from a retailer they didn't like.
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Just got off the phone with them again. They won't take the Amazon receipt as proof of purchase and supervisor pretty much told me to go away. Nice. After my wife's MXPE warranty problems (they would replace her broken phone with a refurb in 5 weeks or whenever they got one) I probably won't buy Moto again. It's a shame too since I have historically loved Moto products.
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