[btrombley]

Amazingly ambitious move by Amazon, which I have to respect. Yes, it will be extremely hard to take market share from Samsung and Apple, but there also hasn't been much innovation in the smart phone market recently, so the opportunity exists if Amazon takes a novel approach. Or maybe they just compete on price, as they have so many times before.

[Haul4ss]

The funny thing is, they're not competing on price. Sans contract, this phone is a hefty $649.

When I heard Amazon would have a phone, I thought for sure it would be very cheap, possibly even free with Prime membership. That would be a game-changing move.

Now, it's just another Android phone, albeit with a couple extra bells and whistles. But with an inferior app store.