Amazon Launches First Fire Phone TV Spot, Spends 30 Seconds Promoting Prime

From DailyTech: Amazon is just days away from launching its Fire Phone, and in preparation, the internet retailer has just revealed its first TV commercial featuring the smartphone.

What many will find interesting is that while the commercial does actually show the Fire Phone, it doesn’t talk about its hardware specs, its innovative 3D interface, or even its pricing. Instead, the full 30 seconds of the ad is devoted on to talking about Amazon Prime. The ad makes mention of all the movies and TV shows that can be accessed using Prime Instant Video, along with the games and apps that can be downloaded from the Appstore.

The ad even mentions the fact that the Fire Phone comes with a free one-year subscription to the aforementioned Amazon Prime service.

That Amazon would spend the entirety of its first ad for the Fire Phone talking about Prime is likely a deliberate move — the Fire Phone all about extending Amazon’s digital media (and shopping) storefront to more people (the Kindle Fire was the first step in “spreading the word”). Even Fire Phone features like Firefly (which can use the rear camera to scan real world objects like books, DVDs, and common household objects) are being used to route you back to Amazon’s store where you’ll be able to place an order and have the item arrive at your doorstep within two days — or possibly 30 minutes once the Amazon Prime Air delivery service takes to the skies.

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