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Can anyone confirm if this online seller is a legitimate business, and that there's not a catch I'm overlooking due to my trigger finger itching close to my money?
If this is real, I'm completely disregarding the AT&T version coming soon.
$229.99 seems like a damn good price, considering my brother just got a PSP Go for $99.
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"boost electronics shop" xperia
Can anyone confirm if this online seller is a legitimate business, and that there's not a catch I'm overlooking due to my trigger finger itching close to my money?
If this is real, I'm completely disregarding the AT&T version coming soon.
$229.99 seems like a damn good price, considering my brother just got a PSP Go for $99.
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i wouldnt trust it
prices are to cheap
call them lol +44 703 185 3689
i wouldnt go for it you cant even buy using google check out paypal etc they just want your card info
more info there in the uk
Ask them if they are on ebay and if not then probably fake. I always use Ebay for the paypal insurance.
One guy was selling Ipad 2s cheap. LOL I god an email warning from Kijiji (Sale website) saying it's likely fraud.
Pricing screenshot. URLs lead to dead end.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...hone&sprefix=firepho,aps&rh=i:aps,k:firephone
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
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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
720p
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.
rbeavers said:
$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 !
Was wondering if anyone bought a 8.4" Tab Pro from BB brick/mortar store recently, and if so, what was the price?
I know they were down to $249 at one point (price adjusted down at register), but they are still over $300 on the website.
Everytime I go to a store to inquire on price, they always go to the website and quote me the $300+ price
I really don't want to have to BUY one just to see what the correct price is.
As a side, I had both the Pro and S 8.4 for a few days. The Pro seemed more natural colors at first, but the S in Neutral setting really got me liking it. I also thought that the S was easier to hold (thinner and lighter). In the end, I sold/returned both of them figuring the Pro would price drop or I would get an open box S (BB seems to have a LOT of these online, but still kind of pricey for me)
Ultimately, I am CHEAP, and if I could get the Pro back for a good price, I will grab it.
Try Bestbuy Mobile.
Hello,
As Moscow Desire said: "NO QUESTIONS in this forum", please.
Got mine yesterday for $279 plus tax from a brick and mortar best buy store.
Amazon dropped the price to $280 earlier this week. I think this is the new normal price.
Two days ago I picked up the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 at Best Buy for $250. I think they are trying to get rid of them to make room for the Tab S and newer models. I couldn't say no at that price, as I needed something to replace my rooted 2nd gen Nook Tablet (with bugs and no BT). They listed it for $250 on the website last I checked.
If you see a price or sale for BB online, do yourself a favor and preload the page on your phone (or print out the page) to bring with you... also for other BB online sale items. The last 3 times I went to BB, I had to show them that there was a different price listed on their website. For example, while checking the Tab Pro sale price at BB online, it showed a 32Gig Samsung micro SD for $17.99. I went into the store to get that micro SD and the price said $24.99. Just show the page from the BB website on your phone to a clerk and they should change it right then when you purchase it.
I picked one up yesterday at Best Buy for $249. The floor model had a $279 sale price but I got the sales rep to look at the weekly ad where it is listed for $249 until October 4.
Does it really matter if I get an Exynos vs. Qualcomm model? I want to buy the cheapest one possible and that's WiFi. Cheaper would be if TMobile had this in stock and I could add it to my monthly plan, but they don't have it yet.
Secondly, I'm thinking of buying it for games like XCom, Banner Saga and a few others. Do most of those types of games play well?
Games will play great
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.