Amazon Not At All Desperate to Sell You a Fire Phone

Today in Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? news, Amazon launched its first phone this summer to the great excitement of…

Exactly. In fact, the only thing we remember about the launch is disbelief over the price of the exclusively AT&T phone.

Now, in a move that amazingly coincides with Fire’s UK launch, Amazon is cutting that price by 90 percent. From the press release, which somehow found coverage on nearly every tech blog this morning:

Dynamic Perspective, Firefly, world-class customer support with Mayday, free unlimited cloud storage for photos, 32GB of storage—and, for a limited time, customers get 12 months of Prime membership with Fire phone, which includes unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of movies and TV episodes from Prime Instant Video, access to over a million songs to download or stream from Prime Music, over 500,000 books to borrow from Kindle Owners’ Lending Library and free two-day...