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I still remember the day that AT&T came out and discounted all Fire phones to 99 cents on a zero-term contract for postpaid customers. The phone had only been
by simfree 2y ago
I still remember the day that AT&T came out and discounted all Fire phones to 99 cents on a zero-term contract for postpaid customers.
The phone had only been out for a few weeks at the point, the sales and return numbers must have been awful.
AT&T tried really hard to push that product like they did with the Nokia Lumias, but with specs worse than a Samsung Galaxy S3, a crummy app store, ancient Android, and going head to head against the Galaxy S4 with a 1366 by potato screen it was a fools errand to launch that product.
- dustincoates 2y agoYou could for a while get a Fire Phone for something like $100, which included a year Prime subscription. That meant that you were paying around $20 for a phone and what were actually some pretty good pack-in wired earbuds at a time when wireless earbuds weren't a thing. I did this, and the phone was serviceable once you rooted it, so long as you remembered the price you paid for it.
- aitchnyu 2y agoIn 2012 they were begging some Android apps to launch in Fire store (their Android app store).
- hughesjj 2y agoActually, the s5 launched in April 2014, so it's an even worse comparison.