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I bought the Fire phone on sale yesterday and it arrived today. I've had Prime for years and it's been a good deal for me, living in a rural area with no car. I've already been given the added year of Prime so the phone basically cost me $60.
I have mixed feelings about the phone. It's replacing a 1st generation Moto G, which has been just fine. I don't have service. It's a portable tablet to live in my shirt pocket, as was the Moto G. I have a free phone from Medicare for phone calls.
Everything I've tried on it has worked okay. Very few things have worked as easily or as intuitively as on my Moto G, but things work well enough. The screen is better. The sound is a little better but not much.
The real surprise is the Kindle app. I read on my Voyage for the most part but I like having a phone with me to read wherever I might happen to be. On the Moto G I used Moon+ reader because I like to scroll but the Kindle app in this thing not only scrolls, it does so much more smoothly and easily than Moon+ on the other one. This thing is nice for reading. Not as good as the Voyage but very very good.
Not only does it scroll but I can scroll by simply tilting the thing back a bit. They've done that almost perfectly. I'd have liked to tilt back a little less to scroll down and tilt back a little more to scroll up, but it's so close to perfect that I'm really glad I have it.
Wouldn't it be amazing if the new Voyage, when it comes, scrolled like this. I don't expect it to happen on e-ink but it would be nice.
By the way the thing I like least about this is that it's battery life is significantly less than the Moto G. I charged that overnight and it was only at 80% to 85% at the end of the day. This one went down to about 70% in a couple of hours. I doubt it'll make a full day. I was using it a lot to play with it and explore but not that much. I often used my Moto G that much with little effect on the battery.
Barry
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