Amazon phone is a shopping mall

CNN’s technology forecaster Paul Saffo said Amazon’s new Fire Phone isn’t a phone, “It’s a shopping mall.” Calling it a “gorgeous mall with infinite selection and endless opportunities,” he says the Fire Phone may well give its competitors a run for the money. Noting that Amazon had entered the mobile game pretty late, he said it wouldn’t have a prayer of catching up to Apple or Google if the retail giant was playing catch-up. He explained, “It’s changing the game by shifting the focus of mobile devices to what it does best: Satisfying our seemingly endless desire to buy stuff.”

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