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Fire Phone

Playing with Fire: What it’s like to make an app for Amazon’s smartphone

[This is a guest post from Dave Cotter and Bruno Botnivik, co-founders and CEO/Chief Architect of family social network SquareHub,… Read More

Amazon offers $100 worth of apps for free, swiping at Google Play Store

Android device owners have some software shopping to do this weekend. Amazon has made $100 worth of apps and games for… Read More

Google’s Android chief pushes back against Apple, wishes Amazon were ‘more aligned’ with mainstream Android

When Tim Cook took the stage at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote earlier this month, he had a lot of… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: What it’s like to use Amazon’s Fire Phone

Amazon’s Fire Phone is definitely different than what’s out there. But is it better? That’s our main topic in the… Read More

What Jeff Bezos wrote on this Amazon customer’s iPhone

For its Fire Phone unveiling this past week, Amazon brought in some of its most faithful customers from around the country, selected via… Read More

Amazon’s Fire phone is a “multi-year, multi-decade” business, Kindle exec says

Amazon’s Fire Phone won’t be a repeat of the Facebook phone, or heaven forbid, the Microsoft Kin. At least, that’s what Amazon… Read More

Hands-on with Amazon’s Fire Phone: 3D, battery life and other first impressions

GeekWire’s Tricia Duryee and I just emerged from some hands-on time with Amazon’s new Fire Phone, and an interview with Ian… Read More

Missing from the Amazon Fire phone: A special voice or data plan from AT&T

Ahead of Amazon’s big phone unveiling today, reports had suggested that the smartphone could come with a special wireless plan… Read More

Shares of Amazon jump nearly 3% after unveiling of new Fire Phone

Wall Street seems to like the Fire Phone, the Amazon.com smartphone that was announced today at an event in Seattle’s… Read More

Amazon Fire Phone starts at $199, ships July 25

Amazon’s Fire Phone will start at a cost of $199 for a 32GB model with a two-year AT&T service agreement,… Read More

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