The fact that they made a phone with a gimmick that makes you want to move and rotate your phone, and then made it so that rotating your phone switches the screen is such a hilarious oversight
I could do the same with my Nokia N8 using the built in gyrometer and a symbian OS written app i downloaded for free from the web. It didn't give me backgrounds, but i could use the phone to tilt images that the camera would take in burst mode, if i moved it side to side at a certain speed. The app would process the images and create a 3D feel for it. The same person wrote an even better app for the 808 which took advantage of the way the sensor was built and you didn't even need to do that anymore, just burst images and it would allow you to make a 3D image directly. IMO, considering how bad for complex stuff, Symbian was, the cameras on this Android based phone are there purely for data gathering. Note how they track his face...
Wonder if different devs worked on those features without realizing the other features existed. If I were to put a tinfoil hat on, I would say Amazon underpays their devs (as they do warehouse workers), so they just aren't paid enough to care.
@@toidIllorTAmI I don't really believe conspiracy theories like that, so I'm gonna say they weren't trying to spy on people (i mean, look at Oculus headsets, if they're spying on people with the camera arrays, that will be a HUGE lawsuit), but this definitely only needed one camera. In robotics, we use single camera systems all the time for basic 6DOF tracking of objects (location and rotation in 3D). If you know the size of the object, and measured it relative to the camera view (typically just a rectangle bounding box around it, no need for more than that), then you can do some math to calculate distance based on the relative size to the calibration size (this is what the calibration card for the original Xbox Kinect was for, it was an object with a known size). As for the other axis, location is easy, it's just the position of it in the camera frame once you've figured out depth. Rotation is a little harder because you have to do some fancy math, but often you will use feature tracking for that. In feature tracking, a fast computer basically automatically finds tons of key points in an image, and then looks at the next frame, finds as many of those features as possible again, and does some math based on how they all moved relative to each other to calculate how the object moved in 3D. This is technically all you need for a basic 3D representation, but you still have to align it with reality. A similar thing is done for motion capture. You'll see in professional motion capture setups, they have a bunch of grey ball things on the actors. Those are retroreflective trackers, so they reflect light directly back at the source (which will be next to a camera), making them shine very brightly, and giving an easy feature for a computer to track. Motion capture systems do this automatically, but you can do face tracking like this manually in something like Blender by drawing a bunch of black dots on your face, recording something, importing it, telling Blender where the dots are, letting it track them, and then parent those trackers to the corresponding face bones on a 3D rig. You could also do this with full-body tracking, but you would need to manually handle trackers leaving the frame (if using a single camera), and you would need a skin-tight suit (light clothes can move around on your body, and therefore move the clothes with them. tl;dr 3D tracking is both easy and hard depending on what you're doing, and i went on a tangent about that the fire phone could've done the "easy" single-camera method, and been perfectly fine.
Used to work for Amazon's Device Tech Support (I started working after the Fire Phone was discontinued) and, I remember the training we had for that phone is just a slideshow, like one slideshow to provide troubleshooting steps. And I worked there for years and I remember the one time I had a call about the Fire Phone is for an old lady and her phone isn't working, I actually provided her a 15% discount since the device is no longer in warranty (and no longer in production). And she was really worried that she can't use Firefly anymore, and I told her that Firefly (The camera thingy that scans an item and redirects you to the Amazon website) is still available on the Fire Tablet and what she said is "What? I've been using this crap for years because that camera thing is really helpful and you could've told me earlier that it's available on a tablet?" and she was upset, like crazy upset and had this like 15 mins rant about how this phone is a hot garbage and she could've bought a new iPhone instead of sticking to the device.
To be fair it was a massive personal fail on your part for not tracking her down beforehand and educating her on the use of Firefly on other devices. How could you possibly justify being so negligent in your duties?
But on the contrary, it is actually a massive personal fail on your part for not tracking down and informing the original poster of this comment before the lady even called. How could you possibly justify being so negligent?
I worked at Amazon doing customer service during the initial rollout of this crap phone. They used to run this internal program where people would "SOS" into live customer support; as an Amazon SOS CSR (customer service rep) , you'd basically display on peoples kindle tablets and fire phones like a little OS livestream/ lets play or something to try and help the customer learn the features of the product, and help them troubleshoot or find things. Being in this department, they had sample models for the CSRs to play with and basically teach themselves how to use the products they were supposed to be supporting; they had these phones out for people to play with along with the tablets and I shit you not, they were broken and glitched straight out the box, so we largely avoided them. Then people would SOS in and try to get help using this crap phone, only for the phone to instantly crash when they used the system; you could get maybe five seconds of audio out before the customer's phone would crash so hard it would reboot, leaving us SOS agents trying to cram three sentences in about how they should just call in to try and get support cause this is a known problem and we have no ways of helping. When you saw someone was SOSing in from a fire phone, you knew there was nothing you could do XD
I actually saw the whole keynote speech about this phone when it was just announced, and they made it sound like the cool new thing everyone should have. I was super into it and wanted one so badly. Until suddenly I learned that it wasn't regular android and wouldn't do regular apps... yeah I'm not surprised it flopped. I was 100% into it and a single tiny fact dropped my interest all the way to zero. Amazon tried to make everything happen with their own store and that killed the whole phone for me. Kinda glad about it now that I can see what a nugget it was even apart from the OS problem...
@@HKlink Every smartphone that hasn't had access to google apps has failed. Apple and Google own the market literally, If you don't get into their club (and that leaves just one door because you ain't ever getting into Apple's lol), Then it's over for your device.
A big turn off with Fire devices for me was the fact that it run on an Android based OS, yet blocked access to Google Play store - and Amazon app store was basically not well known and didn't have much on it
I'm too paranoid for that many cameras. I have tinted tape over my front facing camera on my phone. I don't want 5 cameras facing me every time I use my phone. Edit: Paranoid: "unreasonably or obsessively anxious, suspicious, or mistrustful" I'm aware that this is an unreasonable fear; I literally stated that in the third word.
@@Schnort Buy a ZTE Axon 40 Ultra, it has an under display camera, which is so awful that no-one can spy on you. Rest of the phone is bloody awesome tho.
I worked at AT&T when this phone was launched and they tried to hype it so much they gave 3 phones for my employees to try it and learn it and they hated it. We could see the flop before the launch from the promo material. The promo shirts were super comfortable tho I still wear them to this day to go workout in.
I remember getting one of these phone just for signing up for prime. Had to send it back after I cancelled prime in the trial period. But it was actually nice that I could find every movie by just filming it for a few seconds. Always wondered what happened to these.
Fr, growing up during that time and being into this stuff was very neat with how fast everything was going and changing. I’d go back and forth between an iPhone and an Android flagship every upgrade to see what was going on. Funny thinking about constantly flashing ROMs and stuff now.
A part of me misses the days of the cellphones with the full slide-out keyboards. I had the Android Ally and I loved that thing. It having a full keyboard with directional keys too made it a really nice phone for playing some app games. It was an incredibly thick phone as a tradeoff though, of course.
I was one of those few who owned a fire phone, albeit in 2016, but I actually loved it. I filled it with emulators and it ran them all flawlessly, especially dreamcast. Pair that with a Dualshock 3 controller and a clip-on phone mount, and it was one of the best portable emulator setups available.
That's sincerely great and all but it doesn't have to do anything with it being a Fire phone. You can do that on any regular Android, or even a jailbroken iPhone, and still have access to mainstream app stores.
@@__JiG__SaW__ perhaps the point he was trying to make is that he was able to get good use out of an otherwise cheap, but dogshit phone. If you can't see the correlation then that's on you
I love how there were conspiracy theories about Apple stealing your face data when they added an IR camera for the very legitimate reason of replacing the fingerprint scanner. Meanwhile, Amazon put 5 face tracking cameras on their phone for seemingly no reason.
We've known about data tracking for a long time. Just cause one company is doing it doesn't mean literally every other one isn't. You really think Tiktok blew out cause they gave their platform out of the goodness of their heart?
@@Scorialimit why it's banned for soldiers now due to it using the gps in the background of the phone and sending the data to China.. It allowed all sorts of secret bases to be found due to people patrolling with their phones around the bases and TikTok already knowing they are military.. They used AI to detect patterns used by patrols.. Also it came out they turned the microphones on in the background and sent the recorded data to Chinese servers..
@@ItsHonski Not if you were able to root it and flash new firmware. 50 bucks for Cyanogenmod 11 (basically Vanilla KitKat) on a Snapdragon 800 in 2014 would have been really sweet - I mean I paid 180 for a new Moto G2 with a Snapdragon 400.
@@Alias_Anybodysub. For the time, even at the $160 discounts the year after, you were getting pretty good, premium specs for the time for a steep discount. A root flash would’ve made it worth it, though that would probably break the funky camera feature - which to be fair, that gimmick would wear out pretty quick, plus I’m quite positive it doesn’t exactly have a fantastic impact on the battery life.
@@Alias_Anybody yeah and then watches you while Amazon sells your data to China while you enjoy flappy bird (insert ROM here because you couldn't understand the joke I was making with normal users of phones) lol
Mine served me well as a late middle and early high-school phone. I loved the lock screens, especially the animated ones, and it came with a killer puzzle game where you had to connect flags on a 3d cube using colored squares. The phone held up well, considering I never out a case on it, and it's still mint looking somewhere. I'd rate it 10/10 on being dropped in a bowl of cereal, and still working without getting dried off. It's a shame the battery on mine just stopped working suddenly, I'd probably have to put a new one in just to get any photos off it, but I liked it
Reminds me of when 3D screens were all the rage. There were 3D phones, TVs, even the Nintendo DS went 3D. The fad died out super fast and I honestly keep forgetting that the TV and Blu-ray player we have at home can play a movie in 3D
The great thing about the 3DS was, it was an amazing console in its own right and a real, tangible improvement over the OG DS. Its 10+ year lifespan speaks for itself. Plus it has what I still consider to be one of Nintendo's best handheld libraries. They could have just cashed in on the 3D fad and been done with it, but they went above and beyond and I'll always love it for that.
@@ShaCaro Sure, but that was my point - the 3DS wasn’t that. The 3D gimmick was heavily marketed (initially) but take it away and you still have one of their best systems. Unlike the Wii or Wii U, it didn’t live or die on its gimmick and that’s what’s so great about it.
I actually did have a fire phone for a year or two in 2016 because I guess it was the cheapest option in our plan. I still have it actually, the problem is that it's bricked because I think I tried to jailbreak it to be less restrictive. But yeah, it did have a decent amount of space on it for the time and the whole 3D graphics thing was a nice little gimmick.
I used one of these phones for a good while. Pretty good when it was unlocked, sold for cheap, and with an AOSP ROM installed. Somehow I managed to buy 3 - each for less than a year’s worth of Prime. Then activated all 3 for 3 years of Prime and sold 2 of the phones for more than I paid for them.
my first phone was my mom's hand-me-down amazon fire phone and it sucked so bad. i couldn't even download the instagram app. or the youtube app. i couldn't download so many apps. i was trapped within the shackles of the fire OS. i destroyed it a couple years ago just for fun. this video is kind of nostalgic for me, though. seeing how the phone looked and worked is pretty nice to see again
@@beezy7285I think they ment that your mom didn't intend it to be a hand-me-down, but rather a horrible experience for you to experience for fun. TLDR Your mom hated you, (joke) and wanted you to suffer for fun.
I had one of these stinky bois when it came out. For some reason, the screen felt incredibly dry. I felt I was going to scratch the screen by just swiping. Also, it was stinking slow after a month.
its fun seeing the phone my dad worked on being trashed around like that, also the team that worked on the device knew its state and knew that it was going to be a tough sell, but even they didn't expect it to sell that poorly. They even knew that the SOC couldn't handle 4 cameras at once without stuttering. But Jeff wanted it ✊
I had to demo one of these when I worked for at&t. The best part about that phone was the display. I gutted it when we tore it down and got a really great board and SD card that was designed to play songs the phone could identify. I also got some free LEDs out of it.
Much like all Amazon endeavors under direct Bozos action. Willing to bet that the guy had no hand in Amazon, and that the place was run by people who buffered his stupid, much like they did for Melon muZk. Rich people aren't smart, they're just incredibly lucky to have been born in wealth. All those stories about "gifted" tech wizards and whatever, starting in garages and other bs, are just a load of crap.
Fun fact: When the phone plays an advertisement it will know (through the 5 front cameras) if you are intrigued/watching the ad or not. Hooray Amazon spying on people again.
But then everyone cites lack of google apps on it. Even in this video, as if Google spying is any better or more ethical. I don't even use Google apps or a Google account on my phone. I use alternatives. I saw how deep and virus-like Google Play Services goes, how much of a hit it takes on battery and performance, and just said nope. Not to mention that news story of the father who got labeled a pedo beause he sent photos to his doctor of his son's genitals during the pandemic and Google told the police and cancelled his account. The guy did nothing wrong. then the bike rider who got arrested because he just rode past a home that recently got robbed and Google used his location history against him. At least if you criticize Amazon, or Microsoft, include Google as well.
I had one of these bad boys for about three years (ages 13-15.) Served me well, though a few weeks into my ownership I sat on it funny and shattered the Gorilla Glass™️ back. It was pretty cool despite the shards. If I wanted to keep my hands warm in the winter, I'd just run a weird Blender-lite app and it'd heat up real nice. Near the end of its life I had to turn off the fancy 3D screen movement to preserve battery. The wallpapers make me really nostalgic tho omg :) The proprietary app store really was absolute garbage. There were a lotttt of apps it didn't have, and until the last few months of using it, I never knew about being able to get the Google play store on it. Though the built in browser was really good and I kinda miss it. For a little weirdo who liked to read a lot, it was a pretty alright first phone. 6/10
@@Sporklift my little htc had died and as a broke 20 something I considered the free year of prime on top of the sale price the true part of the bargain. 😂 It hardly worked at my house and got replaced by a hand me down
Man, that HTC One M8 at :45 is a throwback, honestly probably one of my favorite phones I've ever had, it's a close call between it and the Note 9. HTC really built a solid phone back then, I ran mine with the dot view case for a long time (which was a really neat idea for a case) then eventually just went caseless, the way the metal back wore in looked so good. I'm gonna have to dig it out of a box somewhere and see if it still works.
I bought it. It's so unreal. Looks like a developer kit. BTW, I ordered on Amazon (desktop web version) a book and it was downloaded automatically on the phone. I've got a small e-reader, to be honest 😅
They sold those Fire earbuds separately, as well. I actually bought a few pairs because I thought they had decent sound and were reasonably comfortable. I thought they were much better than other cheap earbuds I tried. Thanks for confirming that my hearing discernment isn't too bad.
Really appreciate the authenticness of Dankpod's videos. It's not him being overhyped about everything and just slapping loud memes and noises in the video all over the place, it's just him being a goof, and we get to learn a bit about certain tech and audio stuff, and what's junk vs. what's decent. Fun education done right. 👌
They advertised it on every box you ordered from amazon, with orange tape. You saw the ads. It failed because it sucks not because of lack of marketing
@@afwaller Im going to say it was both. Hell man I worked at Amazon at the time and I didn't even know. Who actually sits down and reads the box. Before opening it and throwing it away. The produce was trash though and word of mouth would have got more then 35k sold if it was good.
I had these. The phone was whatever, but the earbuds are surprisingly darn good. Still have and use them after all these years. I recommend getting those silicon covers they made for the Apple buds.
@@ciarangale4738 It just helps to hold them together a little better and helps against tangling, but if it's in your pocket all day with bunch of other stuff, it'll still tangle.
Wade, you need a lab power supply for things like Over time battery falls in deep discharge state and with lab psu you can resurrect them. Or just solder wires directly to motherboard
Such devices as a smartphone usually have a charging ic that capable of waking battery from deep sleep. Have no idea what was wrong with the phone on video :)
I love how this channel went from an iPod repair channel to archiving manky old tech. I myself love manky old tech and this channel quickly became my favorite comfort channel. Never change Wade. We love you.
Not only can you achieve the 3d depth with an accelerometer, the other problem is it is probably MURDER on your battery life to power 5 high speed camera's to track movement with.
I had a Fire tablet. It was one of the first media players I ever owned, and I loved that thing. Played TH-cam great and was great for reading books, but it had ads on the lockscreen that you couldn't turn off. Unfortunately, it fell into the bath and died a watery death. RIP.
I had one too! It fell in the shower a couple of times and got a tad too banged up to work properly (the power and volume buttons just didn't work most of the time) but it was great to read e-books tbh
I actually loved this phone! The Firefly was excellent. The built in Audible and Kindle was great as well. The side flick to open menus was so awesome. I was bummed when they dropped support. I would still be using it.
This is my friend's second Kindle. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxOnUR4NaproSbBbD2sdI4XcDZ58Jz8GOx The first one which is about 5 or 6 years old quit charging because the bottom connector went bad. When I saw they upgraded to a USB C connector I knew it was time. I think the old USB Micro connectors are a PIA. Her new one is great. It synced right out of the box and connected to WiFi immediately. The thing is perfect! Sooo mine will arrive tomorrow. (Been reading off an old Fire) What bugs me are the reviewers that give this product one star because it didn't work out of the box or they were too dumb to figure it out. If it doesn't work send it back and get another one. It couldn't be easier with Amazon. Giving it one star because it didn't work says nothing about a good one that does work. I bet a bad one is one in a thousand or more. Give it a break...just get another one.
@@Henry7Madsen honestly I kinda hope he doesnt go that path like LTT, it feels a lot more special with just wade you know? obviously maybe some editors with a similar humor to his but surely not much more than that.
BJs/Costco/Sams Club are best for large things like soap, tissues, paper towels, toilet paper...Basically anything that is lightweight with a big box amazon is usually worse. Great for stuff like garbage bags and clothespins etc tho
0:45 Oh I remember my HTC phone, it still resides in my drawer. What I don't think most people remember is Fly - I had one before HTC, and maannn, was it flying... across the room in the fit of rage.
i remember helping people fix these things, it was almost impossible to get them to actually handle calls since most purchases came with preset plans and nobody knew who they were supposed to be referred to for replacements. Pretty sure they were just dropped and people were offered store credit at the first sign of hardware problems. I think its really funny how the fire tablets straight up thrived but then the phones were dead on arrival and there was nothing anyone could do about it
My mum got sold this by a sales rep, and she was the only person I'd ever seen with this phone but I do remember lots of ads on TV for it (atleast here in the UK). I have vague memories of the different gimmicky pre installed games that used the 3d stuff. She only had it a year... pretty sure it's why she'd never get anything aside from an iPhone now.
i sometimes like to randomly pause the video to read the patreon's names on the screen, so ComfyPants, if you're reading this i think your name is cool af
Like I've always said, the more money someone has the more likely they are to become detached from common sense and make stupid decisions. Love your work already btw, definitely subscribing :)
My Mom got this phone when it was still pretty new, she used Amazon for a lot of things, and thought it would be good due to how well integrated it was into Amazon. She didnt really have any problem with it, other than the small selection of apps. Eventually, the battery completely died in 2018 and she was forced to get a new phone. Overall, it wasnt that bad of a phone. We still have it, although the battery is completely dead. I hope someday to get a new battery in it and get it working again, but im not sure when I will be able to do that.
yknow, if this released a few years later, it would have been perfect for Vtubers, facial tracking is super important, and having so many cameras to track movement well would have been insanely useful. after all, a solid amount of vtubers use iPhones for their tracking since the facial recognition and tracking on their selfie cams tends to work better than just a traditional webcam. so basically my thoughts seeing those cameras was "wow this could be really useful for me" and then i realized theres 0 way it wouldve ever gotten any third party app support
I purchase a bunch of these back in the day. The fire phone went on clearance and for whatever reason they didn't open them up and remove the amazon year service cards. So I was buying the phones for like 40 bucks a pop. Cracking them open. Taking out the 1 year memberships, selling the phones for 35 and getting years of service for 5 bucks a pop. I only just recently stopped having prime curtesy of Fire Phones.
I used to play around with my sister's Amazon Fire Tablet in at young age. This is basically that but small, more expensive and kind of reminds me of those more dodgy stock android phones (specifically half of the Chinese Phones that probably on Wish or something). Edit: 10:56 - I actually remember seeing a Samsung Tocco phone (A original black one) at a car boot sale once.
My first "new" iPhone was a 6, I still have to this day, not bent, even after multiple battery swaps. The only thing is the screen has a few darker areas. Amazing how things can last if you look after them...
Frank is literally my favorite part of your videos. Love her so much >u< makes me happy to have my own derp noodle to watch as she yawns after feeding her
@@heleakedallovertheplace it's meant to be a facial expression, and there's no issue with them using it. Getting things across in text is difficult sometimes, so I appreciate when they're used
They were okay once the price went down to $200. I was happy with mine since I didn’t have a ton of money or enough credit for a phone contract. Things were good back then with lots of different options for phones and they all had their own pros and cons. I had a Nokia phone before that was more focused on a good camera and it took insanely good pictures for a phone. Forget what it’s called though.
@@Delicioushashbrowns Yeah exaclty the same for me. I had a Nokia Lumia 920 before that and that camera was insane. Sadly Microsoft dropped the support, because that phone still works like on day 1.
It probably looks better on camera than it does in person, given that it's still only rendering a single 2D image to the display, which would look visibly flat to a pair of human eyes, but with a camera/one eye closed (or, god forbid, missing), it's harder to distinguish the lack of real depth compared to the phone's surroundings (sorry for the run-on, too lazy to format properly)
I think that if Amazon released a smartphone today at a low price, with modern specs and access to the Google Play store, with integration with Alexa and its existing smart home products, minus the face-tracking bloatware bs, it could possibly succeed in its own niche. Of course, the notoriety of the original Fire Phone could be an issue, but I would love to see Amazon make a comeback in the smartphone market.
You should be able to simulate a camera in the center of your screen with multiple selfie cameras, which is handy for video calling. Guess they didn't think of that ten years ago
The battery thing reminds me of my Kindle Fire- it works "okay" when it's on, but let its battery die and you're out of luck for the next 2 hours until it declares itself ready to boot.
I remember being at an att store with my mom when the fire phone just came out and I remember the worker literally just saying it's bad and not worth buying which was funny considering that store usually had workers push products more than car dealers
The 5 cameras and the 3D are actually a really cool concept to me, they aren’t practical I’m aware but I feel if someone else gave that a try then it could be really cool, if they had also just bothered making it a good phone outside of that maybe some people would’ve actually liked it
I was cognizant of the Zune and the Windows phone. I never saw in person, but I knew they existed at the time. This is the very first time I've ever heard of this phone.
I remember once for Christmas my aunt got me one of these it's was one of the first electronic things I ever got and my whole family loved it we would all use it until we stopped using it 3 years later then I recently found it again and somehow it still works
I am so glad you made this video, for literally the past few weeks I was thinking about this phone and how much of a failure it was and also how no one talks about it any more. You are a wonderful humanbeing and I hope you have a wonderful night sleep :)
Can we just appreciate that Dankpods edits the video the way when he zooms in on an iPhone in first seconds and you pause it, the pause button perfectly fits the home button?
When I was a teen I had a couple windows phones and although the OS was quirky, the specs of those phones were competitive and were superior to iOS and Android at the time. I will die on that hill.
This was back when I was really into phones. '13 to '16 I went through like a phone a year. And I got windows phones between that time. Never heard of the Amazon fire phone. This is the first I'm hearing of it.
Friend of mine had a Windows phone, Nokia Lumia 650 I think it was. Absolutely swore by it, even convinced me to pick one up as a second phone myself. I wound up with a 435. Insane value for money, for $50 new (I got mine for $25 used) it was almost as good as the LG Optimus F3 I was using as my main phone at the time. The camera was kinda sad, but the battery life was insane, the screen was great, it was surprisingly responsive for such a chintzy device, and I actually really liked the layout of Windows Phone and the device itself. I still have it, and it still works.
6:19 - "That is pretty neat!" - Wade 2023 But could get the same effect playing a 3DS for far, far less! I bet Bezzi saw the Nintendo 3DS once and went "I want that in a phone! Minions, make it so!" And the Amazon Fire Phone was (still)born!
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The fact that they made a phone with a gimmick that makes you want to move and rotate your phone, and then made it so that rotating your phone switches the screen is such a hilarious oversight
I could do the same with my Nokia N8 using the built in gyrometer and a symbian OS written app i downloaded for free from the web. It didn't give me backgrounds, but i could use the phone to tilt images that the camera would take in burst mode, if i moved it side to side at a certain speed. The app would process the images and create a 3D feel for it. The same person wrote an even better app for the 808 which took advantage of the way the sensor was built and you didn't even need to do that anymore, just burst images and it would allow you to make a 3D image directly.
IMO, considering how bad for complex stuff, Symbian was, the cameras on this Android based phone are there purely for data gathering. Note how they track his face...
@@cool_bug_facts definitely only needed one camera. (3DS) This is a china phone in disguise.
Wonder if different devs worked on those features without realizing the other features existed. If I were to put a tinfoil hat on, I would say Amazon underpays their devs (as they do warehouse workers), so they just aren't paid enough to care.
I was just thinking that..
@@toidIllorTAmI I don't really believe conspiracy theories like that, so I'm gonna say they weren't trying to spy on people (i mean, look at Oculus headsets, if they're spying on people with the camera arrays, that will be a HUGE lawsuit), but this definitely only needed one camera. In robotics, we use single camera systems all the time for basic 6DOF tracking of objects (location and rotation in 3D). If you know the size of the object, and measured it relative to the camera view (typically just a rectangle bounding box around it, no need for more than that), then you can do some math to calculate distance based on the relative size to the calibration size (this is what the calibration card for the original Xbox Kinect was for, it was an object with a known size).
As for the other axis, location is easy, it's just the position of it in the camera frame once you've figured out depth. Rotation is a little harder because you have to do some fancy math, but often you will use feature tracking for that. In feature tracking, a fast computer basically automatically finds tons of key points in an image, and then looks at the next frame, finds as many of those features as possible again, and does some math based on how they all moved relative to each other to calculate how the object moved in 3D. This is technically all you need for a basic 3D representation, but you still have to align it with reality.
A similar thing is done for motion capture. You'll see in professional motion capture setups, they have a bunch of grey ball things on the actors. Those are retroreflective trackers, so they reflect light directly back at the source (which will be next to a camera), making them shine very brightly, and giving an easy feature for a computer to track. Motion capture systems do this automatically, but you can do face tracking like this manually in something like Blender by drawing a bunch of black dots on your face, recording something, importing it, telling Blender where the dots are, letting it track them, and then parent those trackers to the corresponding face bones on a 3D rig. You could also do this with full-body tracking, but you would need to manually handle trackers leaving the frame (if using a single camera), and you would need a skin-tight suit (light clothes can move around on your body, and therefore move the clothes with them.
tl;dr
3D tracking is both easy and hard depending on what you're doing, and i went on a tangent about that
the fire phone could've done the "easy" single-camera method, and been perfectly fine.
I just want to put into perspective how good those earbuds are: he didn’t even THINK about blowing them up.
My thoughts exactly haha.
he didint think he blew them up
lol
i really liked those earbuds, no idea why they just straight up stopped making them
thats shocking especially for him
Used to work for Amazon's Device Tech Support (I started working after the Fire Phone was discontinued) and, I remember the training we had for that phone is just a slideshow, like one slideshow to provide troubleshooting steps. And I worked there for years and I remember the one time I had a call about the Fire Phone is for an old lady and her phone isn't working, I actually provided her a 15% discount since the device is no longer in warranty (and no longer in production). And she was really worried that she can't use Firefly anymore, and I told her that Firefly (The camera thingy that scans an item and redirects you to the Amazon website) is still available on the Fire Tablet and what she said is "What? I've been using this crap for years because that camera thing is really helpful and you could've told me earlier that it's available on a tablet?" and she was upset, like crazy upset and had this like 15 mins rant about how this phone is a hot garbage and she could've bought a new iPhone instead of sticking to the device.
that poor lady,
youngest actual Fire Phone user
@@jameswest6161the Fire phone was that crap. I don’t even blame her 😂
To be fair it was a massive personal fail on your part for not tracking her down beforehand and educating her on the use of Firefly on other devices. How could you possibly justify being so negligent in your duties?
But on the contrary, it is actually a massive personal fail on your part for not tracking down and informing the original poster of this comment before the lady even called. How could you possibly justify being so negligent?
I worked at Amazon doing customer service during the initial rollout of this crap phone. They used to run this internal program where people would "SOS" into live customer support; as an Amazon SOS CSR (customer service rep) , you'd basically display on peoples kindle tablets and fire phones like a little OS livestream/ lets play or something to try and help the customer learn the features of the product, and help them troubleshoot or find things.
Being in this department, they had sample models for the CSRs to play with and basically teach themselves how to use the products they were supposed to be supporting; they had these phones out for people to play with along with the tablets and I shit you not, they were broken and glitched straight out the box, so we largely avoided them.
Then people would SOS in and try to get help using this crap phone, only for the phone to instantly crash when they used the system; you could get maybe five seconds of audio out before the customer's phone would crash so hard it would reboot, leaving us SOS agents trying to cram three sentences in about how they should just call in to try and get support cause this is a known problem and we have no ways of helping.
When you saw someone was SOSing in from a fire phone, you knew there was nothing you could do XD
That's a bruh moment right there
I actually saw the whole keynote speech about this phone when it was just announced, and they made it sound like the cool new thing everyone should have. I was super into it and wanted one so badly. Until suddenly I learned that it wasn't regular android and wouldn't do regular apps... yeah I'm not surprised it flopped. I was 100% into it and a single tiny fact dropped my interest all the way to zero. Amazon tried to make everything happen with their own store and that killed the whole phone for me. Kinda glad about it now that I can see what a nugget it was even apart from the OS problem...
@@HKlink Every smartphone that hasn't had access to google apps has failed. Apple and Google own the market literally, If you don't get into their club (and that leaves just one door because you ain't ever getting into Apple's lol), Then it's over for your device.
Amazon Mayday?
this guy's an absolute maroon. of course, earphones ae going to look the same. they've looked the same before apple ever made them.
A big turn off with Fire devices for me was the fact that it run on an Android based OS, yet blocked access to Google Play store - and Amazon app store was basically not well known and didn't have much on it
It didn't really block access, Amazon just doesn't license it. There are ways to get it on there though.
@@chaos.corner I should imagine you can do it via APK
@@cantliff9 the Google play services missing could throw a wrench into that though
@@donotatme if you can get play store with an apk i could imagine it wouldnt be too difficult to get Google Play Services on there too.
@@donotatme aurora store
I bought one of these when they heavily reduced the price(I think it was 99$). I loved it, it was the first "new" phone I had in a long time.
The 5 cameras was so Jeff could spy on all his customers.
I'm too paranoid for that many cameras. I have tinted tape over my front facing camera on my phone.
I don't want 5 cameras facing me every time I use my phone.
Edit:
Paranoid: "unreasonably or obsessively anxious, suspicious, or mistrustful"
I'm aware that this is an unreasonable fear; I literally stated that in the third word.
@@Schnort touch grass
@@TheFool2cool no U
@@TheFool2cool Lmao why is security paranoia just so invalid?
@@Schnort Buy a ZTE Axon 40 Ultra, it has an under display camera, which is so awful that no-one can spy on you. Rest of the phone is bloody awesome tho.
I worked at AT&T when this phone was launched and they tried to hype it so much they gave 3 phones for my employees to try it and learn it and they hated it. We could see the flop before the launch from the promo material. The promo shirts were super comfortable tho I still wear them to this day to go workout in.
Haha
Can I sniff your shirt after a workout
When the marketing tool surpasses the actual product lol
Lol yeah this thing was doomed from the very start
@@vendetta1915and it didnt regret a second of it
I remember getting one of these phone just for signing up for prime. Had to send it back after I cancelled prime in the trial period. But it was actually nice that I could find every movie by just filming it for a few seconds. Always wondered what happened to these.
Man that period of smartphones was so exciting.
Fr, growing up during that time and being into this stuff was very neat with how fast everything was going and changing. I’d go back and forth between an iPhone and an Android flagship every upgrade to see what was going on. Funny thinking about constantly flashing ROMs and stuff now.
Meh,its all needs that were created we never needed and create a shitload of ewaste
I can't believe it's nearly ten years ago, wtf
@@davidbowman2001 Oh man! I remember being up all-night on XDA flashing custom roms and making Tasker tasks.
A part of me misses the days of the cellphones with the full slide-out keyboards. I had the Android Ally and I loved that thing. It having a full keyboard with directional keys too made it a really nice phone for playing some app games. It was an incredibly thick phone as a tradeoff though, of course.
I was one of those few who owned a fire phone, albeit in 2016, but I actually loved it. I filled it with emulators and it ran them all flawlessly, especially dreamcast. Pair that with a Dualshock 3 controller and a clip-on phone mount, and it was one of the best portable emulator setups available.
Picturing an alternate timeline now where Amazon recognized these strengths and rebranded it as a gaming phone instead
Yeah I knew someone who had one and I helped him load CyanogenMod on it. It ran surprisingly well!
That's sincerely great and all but it doesn't have to do anything with it being a Fire phone. You can do that on any regular Android, or even a jailbroken iPhone, and still have access to mainstream app stores.
@@__JiG__SaW__ perhaps the point he was trying to make is that he was able to get good use out of an otherwise cheap, but dogshit phone. If you can't see the correlation then that's on you
@@elbeetlebeasto No I can totally see the reason behind it, it's just not an accolade to the Fire itself.
I love the fact that he didn't push in the charging cable all the way and thought the phone was already dead
Or that he didn't roll with the goof, which was odd and out of character
@jayw3688 at no point did what you're describing occur
@@tehjamerzYeah like what video did this guy even watch 🤣 we can all plainly see the cable was properly inserted all the way from the very beginning
@@Bro-cx2jc gaslight 100
@@alicemadness999 Nobody click a lighter dammit I'm warning you
I love how there were conspiracy theories about Apple stealing your face data when they added an IR camera for the very legitimate reason of replacing the fingerprint scanner. Meanwhile, Amazon put 5 face tracking cameras on their phone for seemingly no reason.
Aren't they replacing all buttons for cameras?
We've known about data tracking for a long time. Just cause one company is doing it doesn't mean literally every other one isn't. You really think Tiktok blew out cause they gave their platform out of the goodness of their heart?
@@Scorialimit why it's banned for soldiers now due to it using the gps in the background of the phone and sending the data to China..
It allowed all sorts of secret bases to be found due to people patrolling with their phones around the bases and TikTok already knowing they are military..
They used AI to detect patterns used by patrols..
Also it came out they turned the microphones on in the background and sent the recorded data to Chinese servers..
Don't worry, they're only selling what your face looks like, not your finger prints. Personally, I'm very relieved.
The fingerprint is better.
I saw these all the time at the store in high school for somewhere around $50, Amazon must have had absolutely zero faith in it by that point
ok
For $50 its still a scam
@@ItsHonski
Not if you were able to root it and flash new firmware. 50 bucks for Cyanogenmod 11 (basically Vanilla KitKat) on a Snapdragon 800 in 2014 would have been really sweet - I mean I paid 180 for a new Moto G2 with a Snapdragon 400.
@@Alias_Anybodysub. For the time, even at the $160 discounts the year after, you were getting pretty good, premium specs for the time for a steep discount. A root flash would’ve made it worth it, though that would probably break the funky camera feature - which to be fair, that gimmick would wear out pretty quick, plus I’m quite positive it doesn’t exactly have a fantastic impact on the battery life.
@@Alias_Anybody yeah and then watches you while Amazon sells your data to China while you enjoy flappy bird (insert ROM here because you couldn't understand the joke I was making with normal users of phones) lol
Mine served me well as a late middle and early high-school phone. I loved the lock screens, especially the animated ones, and it came with a killer puzzle game where you had to connect flags on a 3d cube using colored squares. The phone held up well, considering I never out a case on it, and it's still mint looking somewhere. I'd rate it 10/10 on being dropped in a bowl of cereal, and still working without getting dried off. It's a shame the battery on mine just stopped working suddenly, I'd probably have to put a new one in just to get any photos off it, but I liked it
it's amazing how dankpods has expanded his videos, now up to other stuff, not only audio and Ipods.
fr, I love his video of the apple newton messagepad from a few months ago
Nobody cares. Low effort comment bro
From nuggets to nuggets…
I miss iPod videos tho :(
@@Emira_75 They're getting harder to find in Cashies and the like
Reminds me of when 3D screens were all the rage. There were 3D phones, TVs, even the Nintendo DS went 3D. The fad died out super fast and I honestly keep forgetting that the TV and Blu-ray player we have at home can play a movie in 3D
The great thing about the 3DS was, it was an amazing console in its own right and a real, tangible improvement over the OG DS. Its 10+ year lifespan speaks for itself. Plus it has what I still consider to be one of Nintendo's best handheld libraries. They could have just cashed in on the 3D fad and been done with it, but they went above and beyond and I'll always love it for that.
@@fatcerberus Nintendo has a habit of blindly dedicating itself to gimmicks that were already outdated when they released them.
@@ShaCaro Sure, but that was my point - the 3DS wasn’t that. The 3D gimmick was heavily marketed (initially) but take it away and you still have one of their best systems. Unlike the Wii or Wii U, it didn’t live or die on its gimmick and that’s what’s so great about it.
3D screens failed because 3D is trash and there is almost zero compatible 3D content.
@@fatcerberus plus you can play all games excluding gba port accessories
I actually did have a fire phone for a year or two in 2016 because I guess it was the cheapest option in our plan. I still have it actually, the problem is that it's bricked because I think I tried to jailbreak it to be less restrictive.
But yeah, it did have a decent amount of space on it for the time and the whole 3D graphics thing was a nice little gimmick.
I used one of these phones for a good while. Pretty good when it was unlocked, sold for cheap, and with an AOSP ROM installed. Somehow I managed to buy 3 - each for less than a year’s worth of Prime. Then activated all 3 for 3 years of Prime and sold 2 of the phones for more than I paid for them.
Stonks.
I imagine those 5 cameras eat up the battery pretty quickly.
Probably lags the heck out of it, spending so much processing power on those.
wrong.
@@Snxgur provide sources plz
I owned one, and they were actually not that bad on the battery and processing power.
my first phone was my mom's hand-me-down amazon fire phone and it sucked so bad. i couldn't even download the instagram app. or the youtube app. i couldn't download so many apps. i was trapped within the shackles of the fire OS. i destroyed it a couple years ago just for fun. this video is kind of nostalgic for me, though. seeing how the phone looked and worked is pretty nice to see again
I don't think it was a hand-me-down its just so terrible you want others to experience. It
@@B0tname what?
@@beezy7285 I have no clue I was really tired
@@beezy7285I think they ment that your mom didn't intend it to be a hand-me-down, but rather a horrible experience for you to experience for fun. TLDR Your mom hated you, (joke) and wanted you to suffer for fun.
I had one of these stinky bois when it came out. For some reason, the screen felt incredibly dry. I felt I was going to scratch the screen by just swiping. Also, it was stinking slow after a month.
Needed an SD card to hold more Amazon product recommendations by the first month, probably.
its fun seeing the phone my dad worked on being trashed around like that, also the team that worked on the device knew its state and knew that it was going to be a tough sell, but even they didn't expect it to sell that poorly.
They even knew that the SOC couldn't handle 4 cameras at once without stuttering. But Jeff wanted it ✊
whoa that's cool!
Can you give us more trivia on the phone from your dad's development team?
And you know that to this day Jeff probably blames the engineering team for his shitty idea of making a phone based around a stupid gimmick
I had to demo one of these when I worked for at&t. The best part about that phone was the display. I gutted it when we tore it down and got a really great board and SD card that was designed to play songs the phone could identify. I also got some free LEDs out of it.
You could literally call it a dumpster fire 😂
Lol
And that what we call a pun 😂
The fyre fest of phones
Much like all Amazon endeavors under direct Bozos action. Willing to bet that the guy had no hand in Amazon, and that the place was run by people who buffered his stupid, much like they did for Melon muZk. Rich people aren't smart, they're just incredibly lucky to have been born in wealth. All those stories about "gifted" tech wizards and whatever, starting in garages and other bs, are just a load of crap.
Fun fact: When the phone plays an advertisement it will know (through the 5 front cameras) if you are intrigued/watching the ad or not. Hooray Amazon spying on people again.
But then everyone cites lack of google apps on it. Even in this video, as if Google spying is any better or more ethical. I don't even use Google apps or a Google account on my phone. I use alternatives. I saw how deep and virus-like Google Play Services goes, how much of a hit it takes on battery and performance, and just said nope. Not to mention that news story of the father who got labeled a pedo beause he sent photos to his doctor of his son's genitals during the pandemic and Google told the police and cancelled his account. The guy did nothing wrong. then the bike rider who got arrested because he just rode past a home that recently got robbed and Google used his location history against him.
At least if you criticize Amazon, or Microsoft, include Google as well.
Yeeesh.
I remember when this came out, it looked like it had so much promise (especially with that cool 3D screen stuff)
Just 3ds fancy sht from 20 years ago
@@zihechen3111 It wasn't real 3D like the 3DS. It just did parallax based on where it thought your head was. It looked nice though.
And then we got the accelerometer and gyro that basically does a similar thing a few years later
It was basically just the cool stuff the 3DS could do but worse and also 3 years later so no one cared.
@@opposite342 The original iPhone already had an accelerometer, and then the iPhone 4 added a gyro in 2010.
Seeing the Fire wake up is like a Dreadnaught awakening from it's slumber.
I had one of these bad boys for about three years (ages 13-15.) Served me well, though a few weeks into my ownership I sat on it funny and shattered the Gorilla Glass™️ back. It was pretty cool despite the shards. If I wanted to keep my hands warm in the winter, I'd just run a weird Blender-lite app and it'd heat up real nice. Near the end of its life I had to turn off the fancy 3D screen movement to preserve battery. The wallpapers make me really nostalgic tho omg :) The proprietary app store really was absolute garbage. There were a lotttt of apps it didn't have, and until the last few months of using it, I never knew about being able to get the Google play store on it. Though the built in browser was really good and I kinda miss it. For a little weirdo who liked to read a lot, it was a pretty alright first phone. 6/10
Yeah I got one super cheap and it was fine. I turned off the 3D immediately to save battery.
@@Sporklift my little htc had died and as a broke 20 something I considered the free year of prime on top of the sale price the true part of the bargain. 😂
It hardly worked at my house and got replaced by a hand me down
I had one at the exact same time in my life but I jailbroke it or something to make android apps work
Man, that HTC One M8 at :45 is a throwback, honestly probably one of my favorite phones I've ever had, it's a close call between it and the Note 9. HTC really built a solid phone back then, I ran mine with the dot view case for a long time (which was a really neat idea for a case) then eventually just went caseless, the way the metal back wore in looked so good. I'm gonna have to dig it out of a box somewhere and see if it still works.
Shame HTC has fallen so far..
They made good phones that were not just copycats..
Also not Chinese..
Htc used to be my favorite except the shitty battery life
I miss HTC.
the one m8 was peak honestly. still have mine in a box somewhere and it was such a good value at the time. loved those dual speakers
@@animeloveer97 shitty battery life is why I stayed far away after my one m7 stopped working.
I bought it. It's so unreal. Looks like a developer kit. BTW, I ordered on Amazon (desktop web version) a book and it was downloaded automatically on the phone. I've got a small e-reader, to be honest 😅
I had no idea Amazon released a phone... those magnet together earbuds with the flat cables (they reduce tangling greatly) actually seem decent.
They sold those Fire earbuds separately, as well. I actually bought a few pairs because I thought they had decent sound and were reasonably comfortable. I thought they were much better than other cheap earbuds I tried. Thanks for confirming that my hearing discernment isn't too bad.
There's enough shade in this video to survive a hot day in Australia
Really appreciate the authenticness of Dankpod's videos. It's not him being overhyped about everything and just slapping loud memes and noises in the video all over the place, it's just him being a goof, and we get to learn a bit about certain tech and audio stuff, and what's junk vs. what's decent. Fun education done right. 👌
He's like that one teacher in high school that hyped everybody up
Frank says nothing.
I had no idea Amazon made a phone. Great marketing guys.
They advertised it on every box you ordered from amazon, with orange tape. You saw the ads. It failed because it sucks not because of lack of marketing
@@afwaller Im going to say it was both. Hell man I worked at Amazon at the time and I didn't even know. Who actually sits down and reads the box. Before opening it and throwing it away. The produce was trash though and word of mouth would have got more then 35k sold if it was good.
If Amazon dumped their Fire OS crap and just tried to make a great phone they probably could.
2:02
5 different cameras
to steal your identity!!!!
My face when Jeff Bezos spies on me:🗿
I had these. The phone was whatever, but the earbuds are surprisingly darn good. Still have and use them after all these years. I recommend getting those silicon covers they made for the Apple buds.
It's surprising that they're magnetic. That's an idea that should have caught on.
@@andrewduong2740 every single earbuds that I tried with that magnetic back feature always turns out to be a real shit show of an earbud
@@andrewduong2740 its cool, but whats the point?
@@ciarangale4738 It just helps to hold them together a little better and helps against tangling, but if it's in your pocket all day with bunch of other stuff, it'll still tangle.
Same. Still got em! And the phone
I was part of Amazon Customer Support while this thing launched in Germany, and maaaan it was a disaster right away
How was it like
I was always intrigued by the fire phone and wondered why it was never as popular
Wade, you need a lab power supply for things like
Over time battery falls in deep discharge state and with lab psu you can resurrect them. Or just solder wires directly to motherboard
Such devices as a smartphone usually have a charging ic that capable of waking battery from deep sleep. Have no idea what was wrong with the phone on video :)
My immediate thought on what they were planning with those front cameras is, lordy loo that would tear through the battery in no time.
Thing is the New 3DS accomplishes the same thing with just one sensor
“They were giving out Amazon prime for a year. That lasts longer than the phone” XDDD
I love how this channel went from an iPod repair channel to archiving manky old tech. I myself love manky old tech and this channel quickly became my favorite comfort channel. Never change Wade. We love you.
Rare footage of Frank doing what was asked of her to do for once
Not only can you achieve the 3d depth with an accelerometer, the other problem is it is probably MURDER on your battery life to power 5 high speed camera's to track movement with.
I love how whenever you open a dankpods video you know it’s going to be entertaining and good quality
Unlike what the video is about 😂
I had a Fire tablet. It was one of the first media players I ever owned, and I loved that thing. Played TH-cam great and was great for reading books, but it had ads on the lockscreen that you couldn't turn off.
Unfortunately, it fell into the bath and died a watery death. RIP.
nOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I had one too! It fell in the shower a couple of times and got a tad too banged up to work properly (the power and volume buttons just didn't work most of the time) but it was great to read e-books tbh
Was 10, had till 13. It died a banana-y death. Miss it still.
@@boom-jr8vi Now I'm curious as to how it died by banana
I dropped my fire tablet like at least 3 separate times in the toilet , still kicking😭
i love how they made a phone with a 3D screen and ALSO made shortcuts that directly get in the way of you viewing the 3D effects whenever you try.
I actually loved this phone! The Firefly was excellent. The built in Audible and Kindle was great as well. The side flick to open menus was so awesome. I was bummed when they dropped support. I would still be using it.
Npc
no way 💀 bro is an actual npc
3:46 aussie man discovers fire for the first time
I don’t think I’ve met anyone who bought one. Ever.
One camera for each year its userbase survived
This is my friend's second Kindle. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxOnUR4NaproSbBbD2sdI4XcDZ58Jz8GOx The first one which is about 5 or 6 years old quit charging because the bottom connector went bad. When I saw they upgraded to a USB C connector I knew it was time. I think the old USB Micro connectors are a PIA. Her new one is great. It synced right out of the box and connected to WiFi immediately. The thing is perfect! Sooo mine will arrive tomorrow. (Been reading off an old Fire) What bugs me are the reviewers that give this product one star because it didn't work out of the box or they were too dumb to figure it out. If it doesn't work send it back and get another one. It couldn't be easier with Amazon. Giving it one star because it didn't work says nothing about a good one that does work. I bet a bad one is one in a thousand or more. Give it a break...just get another one.
I really believe that in 4 or 5 years this guy has the potential to as big as MKBHD or LTT I love his stuff and a very different style of video format
Definitely
@@Those_Weirdos I know but I mean in size and production value with dozens of employees and several different shows
@@Henry7Madsen honestly I kinda hope he doesnt go that path like LTT, it feels a lot more special with just wade you know? obviously maybe some editors with a similar humor to his but surely not much more than that.
@@Atomik0468 true
@@Henry7Madsen why would you want that...success ruins so many channels
Amazon paper towels are actually way too expensive.
I guess mostly because of the large shipping footprint.
BJs/Costco/Sams Club are best for large things like soap, tissues, paper towels, toilet paper...Basically anything that is lightweight with a big box amazon is usually worse. Great for stuff like garbage bags and clothespins etc tho
0:45 Oh I remember my HTC phone, it still resides in my drawer. What I don't think most people remember is Fly - I had one before HTC, and maannn, was it flying... across the room in the fit of rage.
i remember helping people fix these things, it was almost impossible to get them to actually handle calls since most purchases came with preset plans and nobody knew who they were supposed to be referred to for replacements. Pretty sure they were just dropped and people were offered store credit at the first sign of hardware problems.
I think its really funny how the fire tablets straight up thrived but then the phones were dead on arrival and there was nothing anyone could do about it
Even then the only reason the tablet sold was because people thought they were getting the kindle e-reader
@@KaitouKaiju no? Everyone I know never confused those products with eachother
My mum got sold this by a sales rep, and she was the only person I'd ever seen with this phone but I do remember lots of ads on TV for it (atleast here in the UK). I have vague memories of the different gimmicky pre installed games that used the 3d stuff. She only had it a year... pretty sure it's why she'd never get anything aside from an iPhone now.
i sometimes like to randomly pause the video to read the patreon's names on the screen, so ComfyPants, if you're reading this i think your name is cool af
Nothing better than watching Bluey’s dad review a 2014 Amazon phone.
I know right
Wait WHAT?
Well now I can’t unhear it
plot twist: he is bluey's dad voice actor
Like I've always said, the more money someone has the more likely they are to become detached from common sense and make stupid decisions. Love your work already btw, definitely subscribing :)
I am so happy that this british man told me about a failed amazon phone. Thank you british man!
he's Aussie
he's french
My Mom got this phone when it was still pretty new, she used Amazon for a lot of things, and thought it would be good due to how well integrated it was into Amazon. She didnt really have any problem with it, other than the small selection of apps. Eventually, the battery completely died in 2018 and she was forced to get a new phone. Overall, it wasnt that bad of a phone. We still have it, although the battery is completely dead. I hope someday to get a new battery in it and get it working again, but im not sure when I will be able to do that.
All of Wades recurring versions of "Whole New world" about nuggs makes me smile profoundly each time
The silk browser is on the Alexa.
I remember getting this for less than a year's worth of prime, in a.... fire sale. It ran LineageOS so I even got some acceptable use out of it!
yknow, if this released a few years later, it would have been perfect for Vtubers, facial tracking is super important, and having so many cameras to track movement well would have been insanely useful. after all, a solid amount of vtubers use iPhones for their tracking since the facial recognition and tracking on their selfie cams tends to work better than just a traditional webcam.
so basically my thoughts seeing those cameras was "wow this could be really useful for me" and then i realized theres 0 way it wouldve ever gotten any third party app support
The front camera tends to be weaker though.
I purchase a bunch of these back in the day. The fire phone went on clearance and for whatever reason they didn't open them up and remove the amazon year service cards. So I was buying the phones for like 40 bucks a pop. Cracking them open. Taking out the 1 year memberships, selling the phones for 35 and getting years of service for 5 bucks a pop. I only just recently stopped having prime curtesy of Fire Phones.
7:28 watching this on my phone makes those wallpapers look almost 3D. Bit trippy!
I used to play around with my sister's Amazon Fire Tablet in at young age. This is basically that but small, more expensive and kind of reminds me of those more dodgy stock android phones (specifically half of the Chinese Phones that probably on Wish or something).
Edit: 10:56 - I actually remember seeing a Samsung Tocco phone (A original black one) at a car boot sale once.
My first "new" iPhone was a 6, I still have to this day, not bent, even after multiple battery swaps. The only thing is the screen has a few darker areas. Amazing how things can last if you look after them...
Frank is literally my favorite part of your videos. Love her so much >u< makes me happy to have my own derp noodle to watch as she yawns after feeding her
tf does >u< mean is it like uwu? I hope not.
@@heleakedallovertheplace it's meant to be a facial expression, and there's no issue with them using it. Getting things across in text is difficult sometimes, so I appreciate when they're used
Always end it before he shows the thing...no thanks
Ew a weeb
@@rubymalia9345 bro youre 8
Got that thing back in the days for like 200€ and the hardware was insane for the price. Just flashed a Custom Rom on it and I was good to go.
i want to go back to that era ;_;
They were okay once the price went down to $200. I was happy with mine since I didn’t have a ton of money or enough credit for a phone contract.
Things were good back then with lots of different options for phones and they all had their own pros and cons. I had a Nokia phone before that was more focused on a good camera and it took insanely good pictures for a phone. Forget what it’s called though.
@@Delicioushashbrowns Yeah exaclty the same for me. I had a Nokia Lumia 920 before that and that camera was insane. Sadly Microsoft dropped the support, because that phone still works like on day 1.
when the most impressive thing about it is the pair of stinkbuds
Honestly impressive how the 3D effect shows on camera!
Lots of 3d screens today can’t even replicate the 3D effect through a camera so the fact that this 10 yr old screen can is pretty shocking
It probably looks better on camera than it does in person, given that it's still only rendering a single 2D image to the display, which would look visibly flat to a pair of human eyes, but with a camera/one eye closed (or, god forbid, missing), it's harder to distinguish the lack of real depth compared to the phone's surroundings
(sorry for the run-on, too lazy to format properly)
It's got some cool stuff going for it. Shame they didn't try a second one before scrapping the whole project.
I think that if Amazon released a smartphone today at a low price, with modern specs and access to the Google Play store, with integration with Alexa and its existing smart home products, minus the face-tracking bloatware bs, it could possibly succeed in its own niche. Of course, the notoriety of the original Fire Phone could be an issue, but I would love to see Amazon make a comeback in the smartphone market.
Fire OS is an issue
Apple at least provide more protection to its user in its limited OS
You should be able to simulate a camera in the center of your screen with multiple selfie cameras, which is handy for video calling. Guess they didn't think of that ten years ago
The battery thing reminds me of my Kindle Fire- it works "okay" when it's on, but let its battery die and you're out of luck for the next 2 hours until it declares itself ready to boot.
I remember being at an att store with my mom when the fire phone just came out and I remember the worker literally just saying it's bad and not worth buying which was funny considering that store usually had workers push products more than car dealers
It warms my heart to think about AMAZON losing money.
The 5 cameras and the 3D are actually a really cool concept to me, they aren’t practical I’m aware but I feel if someone else gave that a try then it could be really cool, if they had also just bothered making it a good phone outside of that maybe some people would’ve actually liked it
''boring looking'' while it just looks like every 2010's iphone
I was cognizant of the Zune and the Windows phone. I never saw in person, but I knew they existed at the time. This is the very first time I've ever heard of this phone.
I remember once for Christmas my aunt got me one of these it's was one of the first electronic things I ever got and my whole family loved it we would all use it until we stopped using it 3 years later then I recently found it again and somehow it still works
Hey, don't knock hill climb racing, it's one of the best free games ever made on Android. It still holds up like 10 years later.
I am so glad you made this video, for literally the past few weeks I was thinking about this phone and how much of a failure it was and also how no one talks about it any more. You are a wonderful humanbeing and I hope you have a wonderful night sleep :)
Can we just appreciate that Dankpods edits the video the way when he zooms in on an iPhone in first seconds and you pause it, the pause button perfectly fits the home button?
Mom i need 12 bucks to color my frog blue😂
Those cameras are definetly for cool special background screens, totally not for spying others...
Dankman is always just fun to watch, his videos have taken over my car radio
"5 front facing cameras" ah yes just how jeff likes it
When I was a teen I had a couple windows phones and although the OS was quirky, the specs of those phones were competitive and were superior to iOS and Android at the time. I will die on that hill.
I'm with you on that.
My windows phone was f****** awesome it was fast as hell-- problem was there was no software for it
Frank has never looked cuter in an after video segment than today with the scary yawn.
3:52 you sound like an Australian version of Rick from rick and mort
This was back when I was really into phones. '13 to '16 I went through like a phone a year. And I got windows phones between that time. Never heard of the Amazon fire phone. This is the first I'm hearing of it.
Friend of mine had a Windows phone, Nokia Lumia 650 I think it was. Absolutely swore by it, even convinced me to pick one up as a second phone myself. I wound up with a 435. Insane value for money, for $50 new (I got mine for $25 used) it was almost as good as the LG Optimus F3 I was using as my main phone at the time. The camera was kinda sad, but the battery life was insane, the screen was great, it was surprisingly responsive for such a chintzy device, and I actually really liked the layout of Windows Phone and the device itself. I still have it, and it still works.
i loved the windows phone live tiles. And the Here maps app on it was brilliant for commuting.
the idea backfired
6:19 - "That is pretty neat!" - Wade 2023
But could get the same effect playing a 3DS for far, far less!
I bet Bezzi saw the Nintendo 3DS once and went "I want that in a phone! Minions, make it so!"
And the Amazon Fire Phone was (still)born!
It's not real (stereoscopic) 3D like a 3DS. It's just parallax tricks.