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Amazon Fire Phone is Android, just without gapps. I don't quite get the point of this poll tbh.

• andybak 12y ago
  It's a fork of Android with major differences and no compatibility with Google Services (which to many people is one of the defining characteristics of Android). So you are technically correct but not in a particularly interesting way.
• adzicg 12y ago
  I bought the Kindle Fire HD tablet as an experiment a few years back, and found it almost useless for my daily tasks. It was OK for watching movies and reading books, but none of the productivity stuff I wanted from an android device was there. Stock Gmail app on android is much better integrated with Gmail than a bare-bones IMAP client (multiple accounts nicely recognised, different sync policies for labels etc), I missed the nice Google calendar integration etc. My business pretty much runs on google apps, so for that use case there is a huge difference between something running android and something running well integrated google services. I assumed getting google apps on Fire would be just a matter of installing, but it would require rooting the device and rebuilding the OS from scratch, which I didn't want to waste time on. I assume Fire phone will have the same issue. It is Android, but Android without Google services is pretty much pointless for me.
• kybernetikos 12y ago
  These days not having gapps will break a surprising number of apps. I know this because I run cyanogenmod without gapps.