Does not ship to Australia however, so you have to arrange your own shipping company like MyUS.com etc.
It also includes a full year of Amazon Prime worth $99 USD.
Editor's notes on estimated delivery:
ShopMate by Auspost: $32.85, but it may vary up or down by $4.95.
HopShopGo (comGateway by Paypal): $28 USD +/- $4.
CamelCamelCamel.
"Pre-installed Nano SIM card" - does that mean we can change it?
In the specs it states, "SIM card not included"
So should be good.
A year worth of Prime is pretty useless in Australia……..
Prime Instant Video.
Kindle Lending Library.
2 day shipping is still useful for people who use mail forwarding.
So not as useful as living in the US but there's some benefits still.
Prime Instant Video only works if you have a US VPN or possibly Smart DNS.
And if you're already paying for prime, another couple dollars a month doesn't make much difference.
Supports 4G here??
UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz),
Quad-band GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz),
9 bands of 4G-LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 17, 20), supports carrier aggregation
Supported:
2100MHz (B1) FDD (0000000000000001) – Telstra (a handful of sites), Optus (Darwin, Tasmania)
1800MHz (B3) FDD (0000000000000004) – Telstra, Optus, Vodafone
850MHz (B5) FDD (000000??????????) – Vodafone (refarming 5Mhz of this frequency to be 4G across all metro areas)
2600MHz (B7) FDD (0000000000000040) – Optus, Telstra. (TPG have a license but have not announced plans for it.)
900MHz (B8) FDD (0000000000000080) – Telstra (a handful of sites, utilises spectrum previously used by 2G)
Missing:
700MHz (B28) FDD (0000000008000000) – Telstra, Optus (switched on early in a couple of cities, will be widespread in 2015)
2300MHz (B40) TDD (0000008000000000) – Optus (Vivid wireless spectrum), NBN
3500MHz (B42) TDD (????????????????) – Optus, NBN (trials at this stage)
I bought one from ebay for USD $159 + 35 postage (sometimes $139 but I wasn't lucky), if you don't care about prime membership there's a $139 one you can find.
I keep coming back to look at this phone due to its specs and price.
But it lacks microSD and has a few other niggles I don't like.
I really want to like this phone. Looks nice. Decent price. But ehhhh
If you already pay for Prime (like I do), the price is effectively US $60 + delivery.
On the lacking microSD note, it already has 32GB storage, which is fantastic for a device of this price.
I don't use Prime, no. So it doesn't really factor in for me.
32GB is a decent amount of storage, but THEN where would my 64gb microSD I got on a good deal here go? :p
I dunno. Just seems weird these days to be stuck with just internal storage. May as well get an iPhone if you wanna be held back like that.
My 64GB microSD is still in packaging, I should probably ebay it, return it or on-sell it.
I was actually after a 128GB, which is now in my Fiio X3 =)
@Lukian: I opened mine to put it in my current phone, then found it doesn't support it. :p
Originally bought it for my Asus Eeebook as permanent storage, but it took so long to arrive I got a 128GB one in the meantime which is great.
So yeah, this 64gb remains forever unused. :p Waiting on a better phone for a better price. If Amazon supported it, I'd grab it in an instant.
I say it will come cheaper. According to one new source, Amazon has heaps of them
http://recode.net/2014/11/06/codered-second-amazon-fire-phon…
If they still have inventory on black friday, they'll probably give these away with prime subscriptions.
The screen size is good. Shame about no micro SD slot. Does this run android lollipop?
It runs fireos, haven't checked which android is underneath yet or if it can be rooted and rom'ed to a normal android os.
It runs Android 4.2 underneath, there is a CM11 (4.4.x) release, however it is incomplete (mostly camera issues, NFC not working, and google play services likes to crash).
don't expect the user experience on FireOS to be similar to what Android.
some things are better, some things are worse.
the multi-camera gyro-clone is smooth, but i find the interface hard to use.
works perfectly fine on LTE with my telstra SIMs.
my kid now uses this exclusively as it's a walled garden with Prime Instant Video (once 1-click is disabled, and SIM removed)
You can just set 1-click to a 'test credit card' number too.
It's what I do to prevent accidentally buying all the things =)
Great idea as a walled garden device for kids. I'll be using it as my 'spare' phone, aside from checking out the amazon ecosystem further, and likely for slinging stuff to the firetv, so it'll probably live on the coffee table for household use.
"Free unlimited cloud storage" pretty cool