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Amazon adds a spark with ‘Fire’ 3D Smartphone

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S Aadeetya
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The cat is out of the bag, as Amazon's worst kept secret, made its official bow on Wednesday. The US-based company's much anticipated 3D-based smartphone ‘Fire' is the first-ever hardware device from the company that has the armoury to fight out with biggies like Samsung, LG and others.

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Amazon ‘Fire' smartphone is equipped with unique ability to deliver ‘dynamic perspective effect' with the help of four infrared cameras mounted on the front panel. What this means is, the cameras track the position of the user's eyes and mouth to provide a glasses free 3D experience, a definite first for any smartphone in the market.

In addition to the 3D interface display on the Fire, Amazon has equipped slew of its relevant features on the device. The phone can scan and identify more than 100 million items that includes books, music, handwritten content and notes with its ‘Firefly' feature. A user can perform price checks with this feature, comes in handy if you're an avid Amazon shopper.

Now, talking about hard-core make of the phone, ‘Fire' sports a 4.7 inch IPS LCD capacitive Corning Glass 3 display which gives a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels that accounts to 312 ppi. It packs the 2.2 GHz quad-core version of Snapdragon 800 chipset combined with 2 GB RAM. Keeping up with the tradition of being a high-end phone, Amazon has fitted a 13 MP rear shooter with LED flash and a 2.1 MP front snapper.

The phone is priced at $199 for 32 GB variant and $299 for 64 GB on a two year contract. People looking for the unlocked version of the Fire will have to shell out $649. Amazon is taking pre-orders through its website with a release date of July 25.

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