Because their last hype-based smartphone did so well.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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I’ll put this right next to my Facebook and Microsoft phones
Gross. I also saw some laptops labeld as AI powered.
Immediate pass.
I don't need my tech to be telling me 2+2=5
Ahahaha.
They say everything we buy is a kind of signal to our peers.
This will be, as well.
Remember the Fire Phone? It’s back, in slop form!
I think the Alf Pogs are actually more desirable.
I was just going to bring up the Fire Phone!
Amazon has a history of hit and miss devices!
...why?
So amazon can steal more of your data and sell it to data brokers
Wow, people will surely buy this. It most certainly won't end up a huge blunder for Amazon.
Why should I want this? There are not that many use cases for it. All I do with my phone is play about 2 games when I'm bored, browse Lemmy, play music, some messaging and taking some pictures. Theres literally zero value of using AI to do anything of it
Pretty much same for me AI is just useless for my everyday life
And I’m currently developing a plan to not buy it.
I developed my own plan immediately, and I think I can help you with yours. My final plan is to not buy it.
That’s a solid plan. I do have one suggestion, if you’ll indulge it. I found this out after doing some more research about the phone: I think both of our plans will be vastly improved if we don’t buy it.
Oh yes! A smartphone for continuous surveillance of people. This world is ending.
I mean... we have that already sadly
low prices.
Oh. That's the angle.
Amazon will basically give these away, like Prime. And at least some people will lap them up because they can't help themselves.
With absolutely zero offense intented, I just saw another Lemmy user complain about ads on Prime Video, apparently unaware that they're now gated by an additional subscription. And any Lemmy user has to be in the top 1% of "enshittification awareness." That was always the plan, but our monkey brains often cannot help themselves when we see a short-term deal.
If the great people at LineageOS or GrapheneOS or wherever else manage to create a ROM for this thing, maybe it could be a good deal
Cant wait to hear how much of your personal data it steals
All of it.
Spend your time somewhere else. The answer is: yes
What do you mean by 'steals' or 'personal'? People who buy this are willingly giving everything to Amazon by buying this.
Even if this thing HAD a 3.5mm jack, I'd send this junk back.
Amazon apparently has decided it has way too much capital on its hands, so it wants to pile it up a ton of cash out in the backyard, douse it with gasoline, and then smirk like a little imp as it strikes a match.
More power to 'em, I guess?
"Alexa call an ambulance!"
Ordered an amber lance, Prime delivery in eight hours
Thanks, I hate it.
Didn’t learn anything from the failed Fire Phone garbage?
fyre phone
I'm looking forward to these phones!
They'll tank harder than Zunes did!
Zunes were actually pretty good. The worst part was what they named the file sharing system haha
I have no opinion as to their quality, having never even seen one. But they were roughly as popular as the bubonic plague (fair or not).
Didn't they fail at phones once already
Time to f-AI-l
We’re looking forward to the launch of the new Amazon kindle ai phone! It’ll be the industry leading standard in how to read the customer base And completely fucking flop within 24 hours
Also, these could be interesting as a "dirt cheap phone to root."
Amazon will subsidize the snot out of them. I'll take their money, thanks very much.
No app store, have to rely on Alexa, who is definitely collecting and storing your personal data to do things by telling it everything, and a year ago they changed their terms so you can't opt out of your Alexa recordings being automatically sent to Amazon... every day billionaires are closer and closer to successfully turning our phones into telescreens.
And I bet the phone is gonna be full of ads and product placement too, if it happens. I know before I finally ditched my Alexa over a year ago it was trying to suggest shit for me to buy I didn't need.
"Alexa phone, call the doctor, I'm sick I need an ap—"
"You sure? This pack of cold medicine on Amazon has 5 star reviews, and is much cheaper than your doctor visit! Would you like me to add it to your cart for same-day delivery?"
Like. That's maybe a little more time down the line in dystopian hypotheticals, but the vague implications behind the AI doing everything so you don't have to gives up so much free will, and I'm just saying... it's a power grab disguised as efficiency. Ugh.
The only people that are asking for this bought the fire phone
Ironic that the phone has “fire” on it when it wouldn’t be a surprise if the slop it functions off of makes it catch fire
Don't forget they gimped all their FireTV devices lately, you would have to be mad to buy an Amazon phone.
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It has not yet been officially reported that I'm developing plans to purchase a Motorola device with Graphene on it. This project has been codenamed "Fuck Google".
A key focus of this effort is the synergy around a phone without corporate AI, without Google control, and readily available by preinstallation on the device. Research shows this "preinstalled" approach scores highly in the WAF scoring index.
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nothing but ewaste that we will end up paying for. can these companies honestly just... fuck off already. nothing but cancer.
Fire Phone 2
Isnt this everything at the moment?
Finally.
Just what we've all been wanting!
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