Amazon's Fire Phone is now down to $189(11300/-RUPEES) unlocked

Amazon's Fire Phone is now down to $189(11300/-RUPEES) unlocked

You all know the sad story of the Amazon Fire phone, we all had high hopes but were sadly let down especially when Amazon tried to charge full flagship prices for its phones.  We’ve seen the price move up and down over the past couple of months, and today the price has dropped to its lowest ever

Let's face it, Amazon's Fire Phone has been anything but successful, despite its overhyped introduction. The company's first smartphone has, in fact, been such a flop that it's already caused some $170 million in losses. That's quite the amount, even for such a big retailer.

Since it banked on the Fire Phone's success, Amazon apparently ordered quite a few of them, and now it has a lot of units lying around. So it's resorted to cutting the price of the handset multiple times so far. The latest drop, from today, makes the device the most affordable it's ever been.

That's because you can now grab a Fire Phone, SIM-free and unlocked, for just $189. That price level is usually reserved for much lower-end hardware in the Android world, but the Fire Phone does come with caveats of its own, chief among which is that it runs Amazon's forked version of Android which is devoid of any Google apps.

Let's not forget that buying a Fire Phone means you get one year of free Amazon Prime, which in itself is a $99 value. So we're getting closer and closer to the point where Amazon simply starts giving its first smartphone away for practically nothing.

It's amazing to think that when it launched, Amazon was charging $649 for an unlocked Fire Phone. That then changed to $449, $199, and now $189.

SPECIFICATIONS OF AMAZON  FIRE PHONE

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / HSPA / LTE

LAUNCH	Announced	2014, June
	Status	Available. Released 2014, July

BODY	Dimensions	139.2 x 66.5 x 8.9 mm (5.48 x 2.62 x 0.35 in)
	Weight	160 g (5.64 oz)
	SIM	Nano-SIM

DISPLAY	Type	IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	720 x 1280 pixels, 4.7 inches (~312 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass 3 (front and back)
		- 3D Dynamic Perspective UI (based on 4 front cameras) - System wide tilt, auto-scroll, swivel, and peek functions

PLATFORM	OS	Amazon Fire OS v3.5 (Android based OS), upgradable to v3.6.5
	Chipset	Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
	CPU	Quad-core 2.2 GHz Krait 400
	GPU	Adreno 330

MEMORY	Card slot	No
	Internal	32/64 GB, 2 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, optical image stabilization, autofocus, LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, HDR
	Video	1080p@30fps, optical stabilization
	Secondary	2.1 MP

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes, with stereo speakers
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		- Dolby Digital Plus

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band
	Bluetooth	v3.0
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
	NFC	Yes
	Radio	No
	USB	microUSB v2.0

FEATURES	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
	Browser	HTML5
	Java	No
		- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - MP4/H.264 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/E-AC-3 player - Document viewer - Photo viewer - Unlimited Cloud Drive photo storage - Firefly technology

BATTERY		Non-removable Li-Ion 2400 mAh battery
	Stand-by	Up to 285 h
	Talk time	Up to 22 h
	Music play	Up to 65 h

MISC	Colors	Black
	Price group