Kindle Fire Phone - Hands On Review

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by booklover6

Maybe I'll try that. Why did you take Play back off? Not having the Play store on the phone is a drawback.

Resource hog and battery life. It worked perfectly though. I would never use it on the Fire Phone so it's a waste to keep it on there. I only needed to unlock that app. My Fire phone is used for audiobooks and reading with audiobooks (immersion reading). I don't use it for anything else.

I have Overdrive, Smart Audiobook Player, Mort player, Hoopla, Built in Audible and Kindle of course. I also use the amazing camera on it but that's it.

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[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Resource hog and battery life. It worked perfectly though. I would never use it on the Fire Phone so it's a waste to keep it on there. I only needed to unlock that app. My Fire phone is used for audiobooks and reading with audiobooks (immersion reading). I don't use it for anything else.

I have Overdrive, Smart Audiobook Player, Mort player, Hoopla, Built in Audible and Kindle of course. I also use the amazing camera on it but that's it.

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I see. My fire phone is my phone and camera. I have been using it for some audio book tasks, as well as text to speech. I need a dedicated device but the fire phone will do for now. Hard to beat the 32gb. It's a great multi media device! If I don't like the black Friday offerings, I may get another fire phone.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by booklover6

I see. My fire phone is my phone and camera. I have been using it for some audio book tasks, as well as text to speech. I need a dedicated device but the fire phone will do for now. Hard to beat the 32gb. It's a great multi media device! If I don't like the black Friday offerings, I may get another fire phone.

I love mine too. I'm using my mom's phone I bought her last year. It's a ZTE Maven. I have everything smart disabled on it. Just use it for phone and text. $30 a month at&t that mom pays. Many strings attached with that.

My main phone is my Moto E. I love it for social media, this forum and surfing. It's what I'm on now. Battery could be better.

My Fire phone is awesome but does not work well with at&t towers here. Text messages won't send or receive at night. Calls go straight to voicemail. It's not the phone but at&t's crappy network. The Maven is a Go Phone it works fine.

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[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Breathinlady

Thanks ever so much see my earlier post. The key was rebooting my phone and re-installing the app. Had just tried re-install of app. The light kit is awesome even this old retired lady installed it without problems. Just wanted to be able to get Alexa to turn on/off lights via her app.

Have a great day and thanks again!

You're quite welcome, and thanks

[tubemonkey]

Just a heads up:

Amazon Music Unlimited is not supported on the Fire Phone. It's Prime Music all over again.

Anyway, I've put in a request for it, but I'm not holding my breath on this one since Amazon has pretty much given up on properly upgrading the phone.

[booklover6]

Tube, that's not good news. I doubt if I'll get a 2nd one for media, in that case. I do want an Android NCP with at least 16gb internal, and hopefully an SD card slot.

My daughter uses the Moto E 2nd on the Tracfone network. The phone is ok, but I am not impressed with the fact that it often has to be rebooted or it won't connect to wifi. Doesn't seem to bother my daughter. (She's 13). It's better than the Volt, though. Those things are mediocre as far as I am concerned. Battery drops so fast.

But I'll keep using my Fire Phone, it's on AT&T GoPhone, for my phone. Best actual cell phone I've ever had!

My 2 sons also have Fire Phones on the GoPhone network (with no data package).

[Blossom]

That's odd mine never loses internet connection.

I found out how to clear the carousel. Mine had hundreds of books on it. You clear data on the content management app. It resets the home screen, carousel and icons.

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[tomsem]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Just a heads up:

Amazon Music Unlimited is not supported on the Fire Phone. It's Prime Music all over again.

Anyway, I've put in a request for it, but I'm not holding my breath on this one since Amazon has pretty much given up on properly upgrading the phone.

Which is strange. All they need to do is toggle the 'supports Fire Phone' bit on the app that is already in the Appstore. No support for Amazon Music on my Fire HD6 either. Sad.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Which is strange. All they need to do is toggle the 'supports Fire Phone' bit on the app that is already in the Appstore. No support for Amazon Music on my Fire HD6 either. Sad.

That's not cool either. I have the Play Store on my HD6, so I have the Android version of Amazon Music and that gives me access to Music Unlimited.

[Blossom]

I have a question. My Prime is about to run out. When I bought the phone one of the benefits was unlimited cloud space for photos. Does that still ring true? If you don't have Prime do you still get that benefit because you own the phone.

I have hundreds of photos uploaded from the phone. Am I going to lose them?

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[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I have a question. My Prime is about to run out. When I bought the phone one of the benefits was unlimited cloud space for photos. Does that still ring true? If you don't have Prime do you still get that benefit because you own the phone.

I have hundreds of photos uploaded from the phone. Am I going to lose them?

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Check Amazon Drive Manage. You get unlimited photos for owning a Fire device and/or unlimited photos with a Prime membership. You were covered twice, just like me.

You should be okay for photos taken with your phone. But you'll lose other photos from other sources if they exceed the free 5GB Drive limit you have with your phone. See below:

What's 2 x unlimited equal?

Edit:

About Prime Photos

If you cancel or do not renew your Prime membership, you will lose the unlimited photo storage benefit associated with the membership and your uploaded photos will count toward your Amazon Drive storage limit. To continue using Amazon Drive, you can upgrade to Unlimited Storage plan from your Manage Storage page. For more information about your Amazon Drive storage limits and what happens to your content if you exceed those limits, go to About Amazon Drive Storage Limits.

Unlimited Cloud Storage for Photos on Fire Tablets

Will I lose the photos and videos that I have previously uploaded when I give away my Fire tablet?

No. You can continue to view and download your photos and videos uploaded from your Fire tablet from Amazon Drive. When you buy a new Fire tablet, the uploaded photos and videos from your previous Fire tablet will be available on your new Fire tablet when you register your device with your Amazon account.

[Blossom]

I only have photos from the Fire Phone uploaded so this means my pictures are safe? Still a little confused.

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[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I only have photos from the Fire Phone uploaded so this means my pictures are safe? Still a little confused.

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They're safe.

[Barbara1955]

Back them up to CD.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Back them up to CD.

They are backed up but I need them accessible.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

They're safe.

Thanks. I can breathe easier and let Prime elapse.

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