Amazon Fire Phone
- Cause of death
- Killed by indifference
- Made by
- Amazon
Amazon sold through its remaining Fire Phone stock and confirmed it had no plans to replenish it.
Amazon's answer to the iPhone arrived in 2014 with four face-tracking cameras and a 3D interface nobody had asked for. Reviews were poor, sales were worse, and in October of its first year Amazon wrote down $170 million of unsold inventory; by the summer of 2015 it was clearing the phone at $60 with a year of Prime attached. In September 2015 the 32GB and 64GB models simply ran out, and a spokeswoman confirmed there were no plans to build more.
Standing in the archive
Rank 118 of 127 by lifespan. Amazon Fire Phone outlasted 7% of everything else on file.
Cite this entry
"Amazon Fire Phone." How Long It Lasted, https://www.howlongitlasted.com/thing/amazon-fire-phone.
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Sources
- Amazon's Fire Phone Is Off The Market — TechCrunch
- Amazon discontinues disappointing Fire Phone — CNBC
Last checked by a human on 24 July 2026