Amazon has within a few months 70 percent of the price collected by its Fire Phone smartphone in the United States. Where the device release in the summer, 649 dollar cost, is now $ 199.
In Amazons online store in Germany will drop the price also, but not so fast: there he was at the beginning of October is available for 449 euros, but has the Fire Phone now for a price of 399 euros. It seems to be a temporary offer, while the reduction in Amazons home final seems.
A drastic price drop generally indicates that a manufacturer’s unsold inventory want to lose, because the saving and storing of the equipment is more expensive than it is for less money than expected sales of the devices. That also seems the case now: the disappointing sales, expressed in the most recent financial results. Such a drastic reduction is not unique: such a thing happened previously when, for example, HP, in 2011, three-quarters of the price of its Touchpad tablet before you left.
Amazon has despite the low success said that it is continuing with the development of smartphones based on its own Fire OS, a fork of Android without Google services. The Fire Phone is characterized by a 3d interface that works with the face tracking and the tight integration with Amazons own services, such as Firefly, a camera mode that allows users to the software objects can recognize, after which they that objects can directly order it from Amazons online store.
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