{"id":3228,"date":"2014-06-27T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2014-06-27T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:36:18","slug":"amazon-fire-phone-too-gimmicky-for-its-own-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/amazon-fire-phone-too-gimmicky-for-its-own-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Fire Phone: Too Gimmicky For Its Own Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Madden at Wired:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  To Amazon\u2019s credit, the device sports some impressive features, most notably its 3-D-like Dynamic Display, which allows navigation by tilting the device, and its Firefly app that can visually identify millions of products and link the user with information or a purchasing platform. But when tech pundits ask, \u201cAre these more than just gimmicks?\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have another question too. Remember when iOS 7 came out and there was a whole kerfuffle about Perspective Zoom (the tilting effect on the home screen) and how it was making people with vertigo sick?<br \/>\nThis Dynamic Display thing looks way worse. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amazon&#039;s Fire Phone Hands On | Mashable\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cS1n74UZrKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the same effect will happen here? The 3D is far more pervasive throughout the entire Fire Phone OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Madden at Wired: To Amazon\u2019s credit, the device sports some impressive features, most notably its 3-D-like Dynamic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[219,13,948,15],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}