Amazon's Fire Phone, from 2014. The lock screen and other elements had a feature called Dynamic Perspective to provide 3D-like effects. Josh Miller/CNET Amazon is reportedly developing a mobile device ...

In June 2014, the original Amazon Fire Phone hit the market with the intention of competing directly with the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy. Amazon went so far as to develop its own mobile operating ...

When it introduced the Fire smartphone in July, Amazon bet sales would be something worth bragging about. But three months in, it’s obvious the Fire phone is more dud than runaway success. Last week, ...

Amazon has formed a new internal team called ZeroOne, tapping former Microsoft executive and Xbox co-founder J Allard to lead the group in developing what the company describes as “breakthrough” ...

From a hardware perspective, the Fire Phone carries a bill of materials (BOM) low enough to allow Amazon to cut a profit for each smartphone sold. But with Amazon likely having sunk large amounts of ...

Instead, the Fire Phone -- overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos -- was scrapped in barely over a year, one of Amazon's highest-profile flops. Now, Amazon is dialing up a new phone. The latest ...

Amazon's new smartphone will serve as your eyes and ears. Snap a photo of a book title, and it'll show you where to buy it. Listen to a song playing in the background, and it'll direct you to that ...

When Amazon introduced its Fire Phone, in 2014, that first attempt at a mobile phone of its own was so poorly received the company stopped selling it only a year later. According to Reuters, that's ...