I would just pay for the year of prime
What donāt you like about the phone? Iāve heard good things about it. Is there a $59 smart phone that you could recommend instead?
If itās anything like the Kindle Fire, then I donāt like Amazonās ecosystem. Itās great for books, andā¦ thatās pretty much it, in my experience. Thatās fine for a Kindle Fire in the sense that I mainly read books on it, but if the Fire phone is at all the same in that regard, I donāt want it. Also, my Kindle Fire was kind of shoddy, it has had the (apparently very common) issue of headphones not working properly. Where I (just started) work, Iāve been told we get a lot of people bringing in their Kindles with issues not long after buying them.
Iāll wait for Amazon to address the app issue, and then Iāll consider it.
āNot compatible with CDMA networks such as Verizon and Sprintā
Well, that leaves me out.
iād buy one if theyād make that offer available in canada. (hint hint amazon web parsing robot overlords)
Can you nuke it and stick cyanogenmod or some other android variant on it (without simultaneously nuking your āagreementā with amazon) so youāre not stuck with [carrier], especially when out of the country, or so you can get rid of whatever pre-selected ācanāt deleteā apps amazon and/or google have chosen for you? If so, this is a great deal. Otherwise, locked phones are locked phones, and this may work for you but not for me.
Basically it is like a Kindle tablet (like the Fire), only smaller. Which means that it isnāt stock Android and feels a bit āoffā if you arenāt used to Amazonās version of Android. But no more off than say, a Samsung Galaxy, at least to me.
āa replacement phone for when my daughter drops her iPhone in the toiletā
Thatāll teach her to keep better care of her phones!
No ROMs, but you can now load Google Play, and thus get outside Amazonās ecosystem. It isnāt carrier locked, just GSM, so T-Mobile or ATT in the USA.
And sale is over.
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