Fire Phone gets a $200 price cut

[Ravynmagi]

Good news. The it's launching in the UK on September 30th. Exclusively on O2. Because that winning approach worked so well in the US. 🙂

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/08/amazon-fire-phone-uk-launch/

 

[nexus5rocks]

Seemed to be strategically timed, just before Apple's releases.

 

[Insomniator]

Can't believe this was 650 to begin with. Seriously, why would anyone at any age with any use profile get this phone? Is there a point in projects where the company says 'whatever, we have to go with it' and just doesn't care that a product will obviously fail? Those commercials targeting kids make 0 sense. The phone itself makes 0 sense.

 

[Red Storm]

Can't believe this was 650 to begin with. Seriously, why would anyone at any age with any use profile get this phone? Is there a point in projects where the company says 'whatever, we have to go with it' and just doesn't care that a product will obviously fail? Those commercials targeting kids make 0 sense. The phone itself makes 0 sense.

As is often the case, someone high up in the company wants something done and they don't give a crap what those lower on the company totem pole think.

 

[gorcorps]

I have another Fire. The set top box. Apart from the fact that I have Xbmc on it (the reason I got it), it is the crappiest set top box I've used. Just terrible.

Why? I heard it was a pretty solid Roku competitor.

 

[squarecut1]

Why? I heard it was a pretty solid Roku competitor.

The apps work terribly on it. Youtube for example. Also, so many times it freezes and I have to reboot it. I have never had to reboot ATV3 due to a problem. Never had much issues with Roku either. But this Fire TV, no, I would not recommend.

 

[cronos]

The apps work terribly on it. Youtube for example. Also, so many times it freezes and I have to reboot it. I have never had to reboot ATV3 due to a problem. Never had much issues with Roku either. But this Fire TV, no, I would not recommend.

You must have gotten a lemon. You need to get it replaced under warranty. My family watches youtube on the FireTV at least an hour per day for the past 2-3 months, a lot more on the weekends, and never had any problems. That doesn't include hours upon hours of XBMC and Amazon Prime Video use.

My FireTV also never freezes or reboots by itself. Well it actually froze once, and it turns out it was a DHCP problem from my router, it lost the IP address and just hung, but a reboot fixed it. Of course I never rooted it or customize it in any way except sideloading XBMC, so mine is pretty much stock except for that.