A few years ago Amazon was putting the finishing touches on two important pieces of hardware that came out within just a few months of each other: The Fire Phone… Read More
Amazon is pulling the plug on its Mayday video calling feature for on-screen customer support on its Fire tablets, ending a service that was personally unveiled by Amazon CEO Jeff… Read More
Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping company’s artificial intelligence strategy under CEO Satya Nadella before leaving… Read More
Amazon may not be done with the smartphone market yet. According to a report from Gadgets 360, a New Delhi, India-based affiliate of Indian TV station NDTV, Amazon is testing… Read More
In the summer of 2015, Don Driscoll, an associate professor of physics at Kent State University, was ready to renew his Amazon Prime membership. He noticed Amazon’s Fire Phone was… Read More
Jeff Bezos loves failure. He often describes it as a necessity for invention, innovation, and eventually success. Fortunately, Bezos has a perfect example in the infamous Fire Phone flop. Martin Baron,… Read More
Our vision of the future has long included computers that we control with a wave of the hand. But what if that hand was also used to determine more about the… Read More
Ian Freed, the Amazon executive who helped lead the retailer’s ill-fated Fire Phone efforts, has re-emerged at the company, according to a published report. After the Fire Phone failed to… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon announced a sweeping update to its hardware lineup on Thursday, but there was one device noticeably left out: the ill-fated Fire Phone. The company unveiled a… Read More
Reports have surfaced once again that Amazon’s secretive 3,000-person R&D outfit based in Silicon Valley is undergoing drastic changes in the wake of the failed Fire Phone release. This time, The Wall Street Journal… Read More
While many people may have forgotten about it altogether, Amazon hasn’t left the users of its Fire smartphone behind. The company just released an update to the device that’s based… Read More
It’s no secret that Amazon’s first smartphone was a flop with consumers, but behind the scenes, the Fire Phone is also struggling with another key group: app developers. Several developers who made apps for the first Fire… Read More
Amazon is now offering its lowest price yet for the Fire Phone in its latest attempt to drum up demand for the fledgling device. The 32 GB device now costs… Read More
Just when you thought there could be no more stories about why the Amazon Fire Phone failed, a new wave of stories have surfaced bringing Amazon’s most recent failure back into the spotlight. Yesterday, Fast Company reported… Read More
Amazon’s Silicon Valley-based hardware group has undergone a major restructuring, with several executive leaving the organization over the past few months. According to Fast Company, which was the first to report… Read More
Amazon’s Fire Phone is getting another price cut. The device, unveiled in July and suffering from lackluster sales in recent months, is being reduced in price to $199 unlocked. That’s down… Read More
Even though Amazon’s Fire phone hasn’t caught the imagination of consumers, it looks like Amazon is still planning another crack at the smartphone market. Jorrit Van der Meulen, the head of… Read More
Amazon.com isn’t really known as being the most transparent and open company. That’s why remarks that Amazon executive David Limp made in a recent Fortune article are so interesting. Limp… Read More
Now that Amazon has admitted its first smartphone was not all it had hoped for, what happens next? Will Amazon iterate on the Fire phone, and continue sinking time and money into its… Read More
Amazon’s first smartphone wasn’t exactly a hit, and now the company is paying for it. During the company’s earnings conference call this afternoon, CFO Tom Szkutak revealed that Amazon took a $170… Read More
T-Mobile CEO John Legere rocked the house at the GeekWire Summit yesterday with his unique brand of brash, profane and outspoken insights into the wireless industry. He held court on all kinds of… Read More
As the head of Walmart’s e-commerce division, Neil Ashe oversees the sale of a lot of smartphones. But there’s one device he’s not selling. “Is anybody selling the Fire phone?”… Read More
Amazon.com is looking to boost hiring by at least 27 percent at its little-known Lab126 hardware unit over the next five years, pushing workforce at the Silicon Valley operations to… Read More
Following a lackluster debut for its new flagship smartphone, Amazon this morning announced that it is dropping the price of the Fire Phone to 99 cents with a two year wireless… Read More
Consumer Reports has finished subjecting Amazon’s Fire smartphone to its litany of tests, and has found it wanting. While CR praised the Fire’s new and innovative features like its Dynamic… Read More
We get a glimpse of the future this week on the GeekWire radio show, talking about Amazon’s newly released Fire phone, the widely rumored iPhone 6, and Microsoft’s unannounced smartwatch —… Read More
One of the features that Jeff Bezos showed at Amazon’s Fire phone unveiling last month was “auto-scroll” in the Kindle Reader app — the ability to tilt the phone backward or forward… Read More
Walking through our local Fred Meyer store, we approached the wall of toasters with a gleam in our eyes, holding an Amazon Fire smartphone. With one long push of the button on the… Read More
Look closely at Amazon’s new Fire phone and you’ll notice four sensors, one in each corner on the front of the device. These are cameras and infrared LEDs that detect the position of your… Read More
[This is a guest post from Dave Cotter and Bruno Botnivik, co-founders and CEO/Chief Architect of family social network SquareHub, detailing their experience developing for the new Amazon Fire Phone.]… Read More