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The Lowdown: Amazon announces Fire phone with some interesting software features

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos officially announced the company's first smartphone named Fire phone last night. The 4.7-inch screen of 1280 x 720 resolution, 2GB of RAM and a 13 mega pixel camera. It also has four front facing cameras of 2.1 mega pixel each. It comes with internal storage of 32GB and 64GB and is powered by a 2.2GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, Adreno 330 GPU. The phone has a 2400mAh battery and comes with a pre-installed AT&T nano SIM card. The Fire phone runs on Fire OS 3.5.0, which is based on a modified version of Android, though it's not clear which one. Amazon also announced that a year's worth of Prime membership will be included with the device for a limited period. Prime members get free two day shipping from Amazon, unlimited streaming of movies and music provided by Amazon and access to over 500,000 free ebooks. The device specs or looks are not particularly impressive, but Amazon has added some software features that leverage multiple front facing cameras and a deeper connect to its e-commerce service to make it an interesting enough. Fire is available exclusively on AT&T and is priced at $199 with contract and $649 without it. Dynamic perspective As you tilt your phone, the visuals on the phone also change perspective to give a 3D perspective. Fire phone pulls this off by using ultra-low power specialized cameras, four infrared LEDs, a dedicated custom processor, real-time computer vision algorithms, and a custom power-efficient graphics rendering engine…

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