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Amazon Fire Phone: Caveat Emptor

04
Jul
2014

You can now pre-order Amazon’s new Fire Phone at the online retailer’s Web site. Except I wouldn’t. Not yet, anyway. Why? Fire Phone is missing one of the most important modern smartphone capabilities: Bluetooth 4.0. What’s Bluetooth 4.0? Its other names – Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) and Bluetooth Smart provide a clue. Bluetooth was originally devised to create a link between your cell phone and an earpiece so you could converse wirelessly, or to transmit files, such as photos and video, from your phone to a PC. …

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