News: Amazon Fire Phone Flops

[Anonymous]

Amazon had an earnings call today where it was announced that they were essentially writing off $170 million after over estimating how successful the Fire phone would be.

With reportedly only 35,000 units sold in the US after 4 months and with $83million worth of devices still in stock, it's fair to say that the Amazon Fire has been a flop!

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2014/10/24/amazon-fire-phone-a-review-of-the-device-that-just-...

[Anonymous]

http://www.androidcentral.com/amazons-devices-head-admits-they-didnt-get-price-right-fire-phone

"Amazon's Senior Vice President of Devices David Limp admitted in an interview this week to mistakes the company made when it launched its first smartphone, the Fire Phone, stating flat out, "We didn't get the price right."

[viridis]

Award for stating the obvious 2014, goes to....

[Cleoriff]

Is that ALL they didn't get right?....:smileytongue:

[Anonymous]

I've just had a play with the working demo model in the O2 store and it isn't too bad as a device.

[Cleoriff]

I did a write up about this phone (not here). After it received a lot of criticism, I tried one for myself.

Have to say it didn't impress me much. Depends on your individual requirements I suppose...

[MI5]

Doesn't tick my wants and needs at all.......