So, why did the Amazon Fire phone fail as badly as it did?

When the Fire Phone was announced in 2014, Amazon was undergoing massive growth and the brand was consistently in the news cycle with major developmemts throughout the year.

The Fire Phone UI, named FireOS, was based on Android 4 Jelly Bean, but with a massive customized skin that made the phones OS seem original. To this day it's by far the most customized an Android skin has ever been (With NGE: New LG Experience, being a distant second.) In such a radical way.

With that said, the phone itse...

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Apex Legends Mobile pre-registration is now open on Android
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983608/apex-legends-mobile-pre-registration-android

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Sync For Reddit Now Supports Folding Phones
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/ti3cpw/one_last_thing_before_the_beta_fold3_support/

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Exynos 2300 tipped to be even less efficient thanks to thirsty Cortex-X3 cores
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Snapdragon-8-Gen-2-and-Exynos-2300-tipped-to-be-even-less-efficient-thanks-to-thirsty-Cortex-X3-cores.609116.0.html

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Daily Superthread (Mar 21 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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Samsung Galaxy A53 5G | Forget the iPhone SE 2022
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OxygenOS 12 for the OnePlus 8 Series
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/oxygenos-12-for-the-oneplus-8-series.1555055/

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Fun fact: The Android calculator uses computable numbers, not floats. This means you can see the results of calculations to arbitrary precision.

Go to the calculator! You can scroll to the thousandth digit of pi, and then keep going. You can't do this with most calculators.

This is because the Android calculator uses a very fancy trick, called "computable numbers". These don't suffer from the precision problems that floats do....

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Android's Messages, Dialer apps quietly sent text, call info to Google
https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/21/google_messages_gdpr/

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Daily Superthread (Mar 22 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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OnePlus' mobile strategy is going from bad to worse
https://www.androidauthority.com/oneplus-bad-mobile-strategy-2022-3142477/

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Android 13 will add a setting to throttle Internet speeds
https://blog.esper.io/android-13-network-throttling-setting/

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Snapdragon 8 Gen1 Plus (TSMC 4nm) to be announced in early May. Qualcomm will also be announcing some chips for the midrange & upper midrange segment.
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Protip: If listening to a book in audible, you can tell Google assistant "resume audible" and it will pick it up where you left off.

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New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other, smaller platforms
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22995431/european-union-digital-markets-act-imessage-whatsapp-interoperable

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How Google is quietly building Android 13 for smart displays
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Google I/O '22 👇 From what I understand, Google will officially be announcing the Pixel 6a + "teasing" the Pixel Watch. Pixel 6a launch (in most markets) pushed to July 28th. Pixel Watch will be formally announced and launched with Pixel 7 and 7 Pro in October. - Jon Prosser
https://twitter.com/jon_prosser/status/1507116459230642195

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In-depth analysis of Dimensity 8100 & 9000 performance: how strong is it? (GeekerWan Chinese)
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