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Re:Amazon Fire Phone by derekp7 on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @03:35PM (#7912253)
Talk about losing your place -- I just want a phone that I can hand to someone when I'm showing a picture, and not have it exit the app or something when they inevitably touch the screen. Would be nice to have a touch screen lock gesture, which keeps the current app active and displayed.

Oh, and the 3D -- is that really a 3D screen, or does it just change the screen when you move the phone, based on the position of your face relative to the front camera?

Re:Amazon Fire Phone by acchow on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @03:37PM (#7912279)
Soft buttons drive me crazy. When I hand my Android phone to someone to help me take a picture, about half the time they inadvertently close the camera app.
Re:Amazon Fire Phone by GFischer on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @04:00PM (#7912459)
You're not the only one. I'm very close to giving up and using an Android phone as my main phone, but I love physical buttons.

The most painful one is the camera button, it's the one killer feature of Nokia phones and Windows Phone.

(I have a Nokia N86 currently as my main phone).

Re:Amazon Fire Phone by ctdonath on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @03:42PM (#7912316)
2D that just redraws based on the position of your face relative to the 4 front cameras.

(Yes, there are 6 cameras total: high-res back, mid-res front, plus 4 low-res for face-tracking.)

Re:Amazon Fire Phone by tothepixel on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @03:41PM (#7912307)
How do you know that this phone has that problem? I would certainly hope that Amazon's engineers thought about those use cases... Until I read some reviews that actually find those problems with the phone, it's meaningless conjecture to believe them.