Haptics & Size: 3 stars
How it feels ?! Once quite heavy. The 160g make truly noticeable in your hand. Well, because the front and the back cover can be expected completely consist of Gorilla glass is the this is not is lightweight. If you put though to the fact this is only a 4.7 device, I find personally the weight too high. Otherwise you can in my opinion not complain about the feel, even if the rest of the instrument are made of plastic, right, in my opinion the quality. What you should consider however. The dimensions are larger than the example of a Nexus 5. The surface display ratio is therefore in my opinion not the best.
Software & Performance: 2 Stars
Topic Software: Amazon Fire OS 3.6. Anyone familiar with Android or IOS, will get arge difficulties here. I was and still is well. The surface can be operated smoothly. Jerkiness or delays occur virtually no, but the intuitive UI is not really for me. The gesture or motion control is a nice little gimmick but more also not. Dynamic Perpective is also classified in the category gimmick. The feature would be for me not determine a purchase. For me as an avid Android user, I must say also that the fire phone is too much tied to the Amazon cosmos me. Do not get me wrong: Amazon is my mall for just about all concerns, but since you can only actually the fire phone use to buy goods or use the Amazon services, I can here no recommendation. Of course, here, who already move in the Amazon cosmos and this would not leave, who has a good device. I would much prefer if but the Google Apps such as mail, etc. would run natively on the fire phone.
Conclusion: Potential exists, but binding to Amazon I find too restrictive.
Display & Battery: 3-4 Stars
Display resolution HD 1280x720 pixels / 315 PPI. The resolution is sufficient for this display size. 1080P would have been desirable but seis drum. The viewing angle stability can I find in my device the way very well. The colors are crisp at any time. Only the black level could be better. All in all a solid display without significant deficiencies.
On the battery I have to say that I currently No Nano SIM DTAG have and thus the device could not test the mobile network. So my test limited exclusively to the operation in the domestic wireless. Battery life listening while browsing, music and stream Amazon Prime Instant Video, the device has survived quite well. An average battery life of approximately 1 2 days, I was able to achieve so, but these are lack of mobile no meaningful data. However, I think that you should create one day loose with the unit. Again, as a conclusion: Standard! (With an SD 801, the term would probably be again significantly better because of this SoC is significantly more power efficient than the SD800)
Camera: 3 stars
This is a 13MP camera. Makes you outstanding good pictures ?! No, unfortunately not. As a snapshot clippers It is however appropriate. If one makes an effort, also usable images come about. But an overachiever is not the camera. Positive: A dedicated shutter button for the camera.
Finally, but unfortunately also the assessment here: standard fare
Extras: Fire Fly and Mayday
It really is 2 nice features. Above all, the Mayday function could convince me here. If you have questions simply by clicking to turn the Amazon support. Really a nice idea.
Fire Fly, however, did not convince me. Really many products I could not scan it, and if you're completely honest, every bar code scanner function can more or less well mapped. And probably even faster than Fire Fly.
The idea behind it I find quite good in spite of everything!
Final verdict: 3 stars (with potential for)
Is the Amazon fire phone a gadget for anyone ?! Quite definite no!
For the people currently in the Amazon cosmos move, ie use music / ebooks and Amazon Prime Instant Video already on a Kindle Fire, it is a nice complement.
For the majority of users I think the user interface but will simply not be intuitive enough. I really had a hard time to shimmy my way through menus and I am a technology person interested who likes playing around in such devices.
As a further disadvantage must be mentioned clearly the price and Netlock problem. Nearly 500 of the device are given the available alternatives at least 200 too much, especially as we also have a Telekom Netlock here. I can no longer understand today.
Should an upgrade of the device so enter fire phone 2, I hope this one works on the listed points. Especially the high weight and the dimensions of the device are already a real big hit!
The biggest problem of the Fire Phones is but in my opinion the OS as well as the restriction on the Amazon cosmos. Here, much remains to be done to gain a foothold in the current mass market. Failure to do so, I would almost say that the fire phone not exist will be permitted on the market. However, I let myself be happy to disabuse.