Nearly 1000 a critical failure ...,

very few have it but kept in their own hands. Kudos. Ok, those who have come up with the sales policy to introduce here in Germany, is one of the Nobel Prize for stupidity awarded, you should evaluate the product itself, not the sales.
I myself am more extensively Amazon users of instant video to Cloud Drive so is everything. Therefore, the apparatus as for me seemed made.
Disappointed so I was, like many others, from the introductory price and the network lock.
Amazon has here but have to pay dues and has hopefully learned.
When the phone went here for 149 euros on the table, I slammed the unlock code came shortly after delivery by mail, the unblocking worked brilliantly.

The phone itself is processed very valuable, the slightly higher weight underlines that the device is in my eyes thus better in the hand than the plastic-featherweights of Samsung. I guess Amazon vertickert the phones currently just above the cost, even for 199 euros you will find something anywhere.
The system itself does not have much in common with Android, the entire surface is in the Amazon Services zurechtgebogen.Schwieriger than normal Android but it is not to use, I have parked my diverse Kippgesten and serve phone as usual with a finger swipe. The display is sharp, individual pixels are not recognizable.
The biggest selling point is likely to be the carousel, where you always find the most recently used apps at the forefront. But one also has the opportunity festzupinnen apps of their choice at the beginning, so that they always remain in the same place and not wander to the rear. Under the carousel is space for information of various Apps. So are for example under the weather icon then equal to the forecasts for the next few days, under the Messages icon, the last received messages or below the icon for the browser most recently visited web pages that you then can select equal to again access it - very practically, I think.
However, this is also the space for advertising, for example, you get displayed there recommendations under the symbol of the app stores, so you can but turn off in the settings, so that this field remains empty. Information that have nothing to do with advertising (weather, mail, etc.) but nevertheless displayed and are not disabled.
It is also used to, that there is no back button. One level up to get by in the respective display from below sweeps upwards. With the home button go right back to the start page with the carousel.
Otherwise, the operation is not much different than in the normal Android, even if it first looks different. After a few times I try around already feel at home.
I welcome, the Amazon, the system does not zumüllt with third party apps, only 3 games and 2 Apps of T-Com are on it, but can be uninstall.
WLAN connection is stable, just as Bluetooth to my JBL headphones and my Sony Soundbar.

Although it falls under the category "things that do not need the world", but see the stereoscopic images on the screen lock of class, time really something for the eye.

Criticism is the App Store, even popular apps like Golem IT News, 3G Watchdog or MeinVodafone simply not there. Here Amazon urgently needs rework.

So is there a buy recommendation?
Yes, and indeed for people who use Amazon extensively with its various services, the phone is how to make sense.
Criticisms that allude to the strong bond to Amazon, I can not understand, Apple integrates the customers with its services, Microsoft does that, just as every manufacturer of coffee pad machines. They know it beforehand.

Who value on the latest apps installed or Amazon barely uses, business customers is wrong with this phone, anyway.

For me it's perfect.

PS By the way, you can mention the Amazon attaches a quite vigorous rapid charger, and fairly high-quality headphones, at least considering the clutter, attach the other manufacturers.

Now reichts,

so long.