Amazon's Fire phone fizzles out

Amazon's Fire phone was launched two months ago and was made available in the market around a month ago but only in the US and on AT&T. The Fire phone was coming into a very crowded market and while it had some notable differentiators such as access to Amazon's ecosystem and a 3D-interface by way of dynamic perspective feature and the Firefly feature which allows the phone to take a picture of an item and quickly find it for sale on Amazon were niche features. Data shows that only 35,000 units of the Fire phone have been sold or at least that's what ComScore's estimated. While Bezos and Co. maintain that they're in the smartphone business for the long haul, the lack of excitement an adoptionof the already limited Fire phone doesn't bode well for Amazon in the long or short term.

Source: The Guardian

Sharing made easy on iOS with Contact Center

Looking for an easier way to share messages and the like on your iPhone. The team behind Launch Center Pro is bringing Contact Center, an app designed to simplify the sharing process. It lets you setup shortcuts to do tasks such as sending a predefined message to someone, opening FaceTime, sharing a GIF, and the like. It can also setup triggers like copy the clipboard into a new email message for someone or send a recent photo to a loved one.

Source: Lifehacker | Download: iTunes App Store (Free)

Xbox One September update to bring GIFs, new media player

Microsoft is rolling out its next update for the Xbox One in the coming days and GIF-lovers should be happy. The September update will feature a new GIF-capable media player app (unfortunately no MKV support just yet) and a revamped party app. Xbox On Kinect voice command will also be available in Canadian French. The patch will also include the ability to do multiple simultaneous deletes from Game DVR as well as bandwidth usage monitor. The last feature will be particularly useful for those with data caps.

Source: Major Nelson

Mix lets you customize photo presets on Android

There are those who aren’t satisfied with the filters offered by the different photo editing apps. Camera 360’s Mix hopes to fill in the gaps with its highly customizable app. It comes with over 40 textures, 115 filters, and 10 adjustment tools to help you create effects such as bokeh blurring and DSLR-like depth of field. You can save the effect you’ve created for future use. Camera 360’s site features some original settings and guides on how to create them.

Source: Mix | Via: The Next Web | Download: Google Play Store (Free)