Amazon Fire Phone Issues and Problems

Amazon Fire Phone is one of the many models available in the market. Here are few things that customers would like to know about the phone, before placing the order at Amazon.com where it is available now.

• The users who want to access Google Play on Fire Phone need to first install Google Login service, Google Services Framework, Google Play services and Google Play Store.
• The Fire Phone does not support any micro SD card as there is no slot
• As the Fire Phone does not support any memory card, the pictures the users take are uploaded to Amazon cloud drive from where the user can download them on to the computer and take the print outs.
• Amazon Fire Phone is sold unlocked and thus any regular SIM card of any carrier can be used
• The battery of Fire Phone gets drained quickly if some apps are running in the background. This also makes the device hot.
• The battery of Fire Phone is not replaceable. Thus one needs to carry a USB battery pack for charging. There is no need to worry about the life span of the battery as it should last the lifetime of the phone.
• Fire Phone is only compatible with GSM but not with networks such as Verizon and Sprint.
• Fire phone battery does not last for 22 hours as claimed but only gives around 8.5 hours back up
• There are numerous bugs in the Fire Phone operating system such as crashing the browser and hope these will be fixed in the coming updates
• Another drawback is that This Fire Phone is not waterproof