Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests

Re:Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data sug... by tadfisher on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @10:42PM (#8230638)

Stock Android really is the best experience. You can tell it was designed with a sort of consistency and fluidity that all of the manufacturer skins lack. I would also take a Galaxy Nexus over any skinned Android device; with the exception of HTC Sense, which has really improved since the disastrous Gingerbread days.

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Re:Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data sug... by pjc50 on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @04:23AM (#8231242)

I generally refer to the OEM software as "value subtracted software"; it's only there as a weak effort at de-commoditising the hardware.

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Re:Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data sug... by bellerocky on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @11:23PM (#8230734)

I just install Aviate or some other thing on top of TouchWiz on my Galaxy 5. Who cares what the default UI is like, you can replace it is enough on Android. I think you can get any kind of Android UI you like, you're not stuck with what you get from the manufacturer.

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Re:Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data sug... by TylerE on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:07AM (#8230821)

Not all of it. In one of the recent HTC updates they pushed some incredinly inane "features", for instance a "volume warning" that forces you to click ok to move the volume past about the halfway point - even if it's the BLUETOOTH volume.

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Re:Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data sug... by eigenvector on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @02:52AM (#8231067)

Volume warning is actually from stock Android.

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Re:Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data sug... by ufmace on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:01PM (#8232821)

I've got a HTC One GPE, keep it bone-stock, never seen any volume warnings.

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Re:Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data sug... by ansible on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @06:39AM (#8231497)

N4 running stock here. I've never seen that.

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Re:Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data sug... by rodgerd on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:16AM (#8230836)

I'm pretty fond of Sony's (generally mild) changes from stock from the 4.0 era on. These days they seem to put most of their efforts into apps (where it belongs) to differentiate the camera, media players and so on.

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