I bought an Amazon Fire Phone when they were on sale for $199 (and it included a year of Amazon Prime, which I already have paid for for nearly as long as the s

I bought an Amazon Fire Phone when they were on sale for $199 (and it included a year of Amazon Prime, which I already have paid for for nearly as long as the service has existed). It is basically a shitphone, though a quite high quality one (from a hardware perspective, the software is soundly in the "shitware" category). It has a weird/broken/old version of Android, has the Amazon store instead of Google Play (though Play can be side-loaded), and has some weird and ridiculous features that nobody wants and everybody laughs at when I explain it to them (the 3D stuff and the four cameras on the face to provide the 3D stuff). But, for effectively $100 I got a quite high end phone. And, it was fun to tinker with it, getting it whipped into proper shape. I may eventually root it and pop Cyanogen or some other ROM onto it, for now, it's a pretty solid phone. If I hadn't gotten the Fire, I probably would have gotten one of the cheap Chinese imports like the author of this post. I refuse to do a subsidized phone, and $650 for a high end phone seems absurd.