Amazon Chief Financial Officer Tom Szkutak announced at a conference with investors that the Fire Phone smartphones has led the company to a $ 170 million loss.

According to the quarterly financial report 3/2014 concerning the Amazon Phone Fire has lost $ 170 million for this smartphone. Expanding array of smartphones is the branch of Amazon is developed from the field of e-book readers, tablet devices multimedia transmission.

Fire Phone was announced in July and is distributed in the US through AT & T. This smartphone does not impress consumers. After two weeks the price of the machine has been reduced from 99 USD to 199 USD (plus contract with the network).

Fire Phone uses a 4.7-inch touchscreen achieve HD resolution, quad-core processor Qualcomm speed of 2.2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 32/64 GB of internal memory and supports the ability to connect superfast 4G LTE network.

In particular, the front of the machine equipped with 4 cameras capable of tracking small head movements and creates a 3D interface when the user looks at the screen.

In addition, each camera is equipped with an infrared light to see at night. Whereby the monitoring function head movements will still operate well in low-light settings.