Amazon Fire Phone sold just 35,000 units in first month

Posted on Wednesday, August 27 2014 @ 12:17 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Amazon's Fire Phone hit the market about a month ago and even though there are no official sales figures it seems like the smartphone fails to impress consumers. The Guardian's Charles Arthur did his best to estimate how many units were sold and his best-case scenario is that only 35,000 Fire phones were sold.

The reasons for the Fire Phone’s flop are numerous and obvious: It was launched as an exclusive on AT&T, it was priced as highly as established brands such as the iPhone and the Galaxy S series even though it was a very late entrant, and it didn’t offer any compelling features outside of a 3D display and other gimmicks. In retrospect, comparisons between the Fire Phone and HTC’s ill-fated “Facebook Phone” may have been unfair to the Facebook phone.

Source: BGR

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