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The new Fire Phone.....Check it out.

mima — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:38:07 GMT

On amazon. Looks pretty cool. I just got a new Samsung Note 3, so I won't be buying.

Looks pretty cool though. I'd hate to give up the playstore, but the 3D looks awesome.

They are ATT phones.

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gardenman — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:10:31 GMT

I like the phone but I'd need to know more about AT&T's plans and the costs before investing in one. It is a neat little phone though.

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mima — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:26:35 GMT

On 6/19/2014 gardenman said:
I like the phone but I'd need to know more about AT&T's plans and the costs before investing in one. It is a neat little phone though.

The main thing is to make sure ATT has good service in your area. Their plans are good. My daughter has ATT for her whole family.

You aren't stuck with ATT though even if you buy an ATT phone. You can get a service such as Straighttalk and they will send you a sim card to make the phone work with their service.

I have my Samsung Note 3 on Straighttalk even though it isn't a ST phone. I like knowing exactly what my monthly bill will be and no risk of overage fees.

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Iambeezer — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:06:47 GMT

On 6/19/2014 gardenman said:
I like the phone but I'd need to know more about AT&T's plans and the costs before investing in one. It is a neat little phone though.

So go onto their site and look.

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Lowry83 — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:56:39 GMT

I heard of the Fire phone just the other day but did not look for details because I am quite happy with my Verizon service and plan to stick with them when I eventually upgrade my old-fashioned flip phone. If I were interested in switching carriers, I might consider Straighttalk, as suggested in a previous post, but would not want AT&T. A friend of mine has AT&T cell service. He lives in my metropolitan area but frequently travels around the country to other major cities, and service is pretty bad everywhere he goes - static and frequent dropped calls.

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151949 — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:07:50 GMT

They were showing it on CBS this morning saying you can point the camera at any object and if Amazon has that object for sale it will take you to the website so you can order it. I liked the 3D look of the screen.

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Nuttmeg — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:27:43 GMT

On 6/19/2014 mima said:
On 6/19/2014 gardenman said:
I like the phone but I'd need to know more about AT&T's plans and the costs before investing in one. It is a neat little phone though.

The main thing is to make sure ATT has good service in your area. Their plans are good. My daughter has ATT for her whole family.

You aren't stuck with ATT though even if you buy an ATT phone. You can get a service such as Straighttalk and they will send you a sim card to make the phone work with their service.

I have my Samsung Note 3 on Straighttalk even though it isn't a ST phone. I like knowing exactly what my monthly bill will be and no risk of overage fees.

We do not know whether this new phone will run on Straight Talk's network. This would be a question to ask Amazon. Does this phone require a SIM card?

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ChynnaBlue — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:55:53 GMT

I checked it out on the Amazon site and checked out some videos, but so far I'm not seeing anything I'm impressed enough by to make a switch. The 3D is neat, but remember how many people had to turn the movement off on the iPhone 5S because they experienced headaches or motions sickeness? I'm not sure that's the thing I'd include as a main selling point on the next phone I designed. The Amazon store is neat, but I can do that on my own, even if it means going to all that trouble () of typing words into the search field. The camera looks good. None of those things are, to me, important enough to make a switch from my iPhone.

I will be looking out for reviews and seeing how this launch progresses.

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Foggy morning — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 01:50:39 GMT

I have one in my Amazon cart now. I've needed to upgrade my phone, I have Prime and also AT&T. One year of free Prime is enticing. During check-out the process was interfaced with AT&T so I could check the cost between my current plan and/or change plans. I was pretty much able to find answers to any questions that I had, I.e. how to transfer my phone number to the new phone. I'm still in thinking mode but I'm leaning towards placing the order.

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Iambeezer — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 03:02:02 GMT

On 6/19/2014 ambermoon said: I have one in my Amazon cart now. I've needed to upgrade my phone, I have Prime and also AT&T. One year of free Prime is enticing. During check-out the process was interfaced with AT&T so I could check the cost between my current plan and/or change plans. I was pretty much able to find answers to any questions that I had, I.e. how to transfer my phone number to the new phone. I'm still in thinking mode but I'm leaning towards placing the order.

If you are upgrading your current ATT phone you don't need to transfer your number to the new phone.... it will come and you go online or call a number and it gets activated and your old phone's sim gets deactivated.

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Tzu4u — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 03:36:28 GMT

The Amazon phone is not compatible with the Google app store. The Amazon app store is very small and new. Android phones are compatible with Google Playstore, so this new phone is not considered an android phone.

I would read reviews on CNet and other technology websites. I have read a few, and while the phone is nice, there are lots of problems and hurdles when bringing in a phone that operates on a new system. Reviews also were surprised the price was $199.00 with 2 year contract for this phone.

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mima — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:13:50 GMT

On 6/19/2014 nutmeg3 said:
On 6/19/2014 mima said:
On 6/19/2014 gardenman said:
I like the phone but I'd need to know more about AT&T's plans and the costs before investing in one. It is a neat little phone though.

The main thing is to make sure ATT has good service in your area. Their plans are good. My daughter has ATT for her whole family.

You aren't stuck with ATT though even if you buy an ATT phone. You can get a service such as Straighttalk and they will send you a sim card to make the phone work with their service.

I have my Samsung Note 3 on Straighttalk even though it isn't a ST phone. I like knowing exactly what my monthly bill will be and no risk of overage fees.

We do not know whether this new phone will run on Straight Talk's network. This would be a question to ask Amazon. Does this phone require a SIM card?

I just googled and found that it come with a "" pre-installed AT&T nano SIM card"". I'm pretty sure that it would work with ST.

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mima — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:20:46 GMT

On 6/19/2014 Lowry83 said:
I heard of the Fire phone just the other day but did not look for details because I am quite happy with my Verizon service and plan to stick with them when I eventually upgrade my old-fashioned flip phone. If I were interested in switching carriers, I might consider Straighttalk, as suggested in a previous post, but would not want AT&T. A friend of mine has AT&T cell service. He lives in my metropolitan area but frequently travels around the country to other major cities, and service is pretty bad everywhere he goes - static and frequent dropped calls.

It for sure totally depends on the area you live in. ATT works best in our rural area. In fact, only Verizon and ATT work here. None of the other networks work here at all.

If you wanted to go with Straighttalk and you buy an ATT phone, it will still work off the ATT towers even though it is through ST. ST doesn't have their own towers. If you want your phone to work off the Verizon or one of the other Networks, you need to investigate to see what phone you need to buy to work of the towers that you want.

So even though my mom and I both have Straighttalk, hers runs off Verizon and mine is ATT because of the type of phone we have.