Fire Phone: Out of the Box: A get-started-now guide to Firefly, Mayday, Dynamic Perspective, and other new features

by Brian Sawyer

Dive straight into hot Fire phone features you won't find in any other device--like Firefly, Mayday, and Dynamic Perspective--with this concise hands-on guide. You probably already know how to make calls, text, and take photos with Amazon's new phone, but where it really shines is in innovative features you've never even seen before. This intuitive, easy-to-follow book opens a world of possibilities with the Fire phone, right out of the box.Instantly identify and order just about any product with Firefly--from DVDs, CDs, and books (or their electronic equivalents) to nearly anything else with a barcodeUse Mayday to get live, hands-on tech support and customer service right on your phoneImmerse yourself in 3D games, maps, and apps with the Dynamic Perspective sensor systemNavigate easily with new one-handed (and no-handed!) gestures found only on Fire phone

56 pages, Paperback

First published July 24, 2014

About the author

Brian Sawyer is a Senior Editor for O'Reilly Media, where he manages the Missing Manuals division. He’s also coauthor of Best Android Apps and has served as lead editor for the company’s popular Hacks series, editor for Head First and Make: Books titles, and contributing editor to Craft magazine. When not writing or editing about technology, he uses it to help train for marathons (see Chapter 4 of Best Android Apps).

In addition to acquiring books for a couple other tech publishers, he has also shepherded books on knitting, cooking, and jewelry-making, and even has his name on the cover of an origami book. A bibliophile at heart, a book editor by trade, and a book crafter by avocation, his articles on bookbinding and altered books have appeared in Make and Craft magazines, respectively, and he often writes about making books on his personal blog, when he’s not busy actually making them.