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What should we take from the Fire Phone? #VersionHistory
The Verge· 2025-11-10 15:01
What feature of this thing should every current version have. No. >> What would we take from the Firephone and put onto every modern smartphone.>> Allison, >> headphone jack. >> Yeah, good answer. >> Pop out answer.>> The only right answer. I'm get that. ...
As we outsource more to smart home gadgets, have we thought about how we’d react in their place?
The Verge· 2025-11-10 15:00
Mowing starts >> today. I woke up as a lawn mower. I start my day the same way.Out of my charger, then head to work. The same route every day. And I have one task.Stop the grass from growing. Like Sisphus pushing the boulder up the hill, I snipped the blades of grass each morning, only to return the next day to do the same. A neverending cycle to procure a steadfast greensword.Chickens have more freedom than I. Locked into a grid, a 4G network of loneliness and solitude. Unless something interferes or someo ...
The Verge’s Allison Johnson reacts to the specs of Amazon’s 2014 Fire Phone.
The Verge· 2025-11-09 16:00
All right, so Alison, I'm going to read you a list of specs and you're going to tell me if this sounds like an impressive phone. You ready for this. >> I'm ready for it.>> The Firephone had a 4.7% in 720 x 1280 screen. >> Honestly, don't hate it. >> Yeah, it's fine.>> Like, it's kind of the right size for a phone, but that's a whole other thing. >> Little small, but it didn't. I will say there is something about holding this phone that is very nice.Uh all these years later, uh it had a Snapdragon 800 chip a ...
In the latest episode of Version History, we look back at why Amazon’s Fire Phone didn’t make it.
The Verge· 2025-11-09 15:00
And we have this phone here. I encourage you to try it for yourself because there's some truly wild stuff going on. The first one was called dynamic perspective.This was, at least in Jeff Bezos's mind, this was the feature of the phone. Like, forget all the rest of it. This was going to be the thing that blew everybody's mind.And it had four IR projectors, one in each corner of the front of the phone that basically figured out where you were, and it would reorient the display as you moved your head around. ...
Tomorrow on Version History, we’re taking a look back at Amazon’s biggest fail: the Fire Phone.
The Verge· 2025-11-08 15:01
It's 2010ish. The iPhone is a huge hit. Android is starting to dominate the global smartphone market.Those phones are boring. When you squeeze on the side of them, nothing happens. When you go to take a picture, they only have one camera or two cameras.They don't have five or six, and you want five or six. You also want when you kind of lean off to the side, you want something to happen on your phone, and nothing is happening on your phone. Plus, let's be honest, aren't phones mostly for shopping.put all of ...
Amazon and Perplexity’s AI web browser fight #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-11-07 17:14
My very short summary of this and then I want to get deep in the weeds on this is basically uh Amazon sent a a cease and desist letter to Perplexity saying you are allowing people in comet the the AI browser that Perplexity makes to buy things through our agent on Amazon. Stop it. And Perplexity said this is Amazon a big company bullying us a startup into playing its games because it's trying to do all kinds of shady stuff. These two companies are now like at a very legal crossroads fighting about what I th ...
Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper Mac laptop with an iPhone chip #Vergecast
The Verge· 2025-11-07 16:31
There was a report this week that suggests that Apple is working on a cheaper, substantially under $1,000 laptop powered by an iPhone chip. So, I I do buy this rumor. >> Okay.Weirdly, Apple makes more products than ever, but not enough products. >> What. Do you know what I mean.>> No. Like, they make more SKs of everything and all of it feels like a game where they're trying to get $500 for you to double your RAM or storage and you're trying not to do that. >> Yeah, I buy that.They're perpetually trying to ...
MLB is trying to breathe life into an aging sport, and it looks like social media is responding.
The Verge· 2025-11-06 18:00
Saturday's absolutely thrilling game seven of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays was the most viewed World Series game in eight years. 26 million people in the US watched the game and something like 45% of the entire Canadian population tuned in at least for part of the game. I watch baseball all season long and on Saturday I was seeing new types of people comment on the game that I had never seen talk about baseball before.On Instagram, there were jewelry accounts an ...
This suit also alleges a retaliatory internet smear campaign against Lively.
The Verge· 2025-11-06 16:55
Here's a quick rundown of everything that's happened so far with Blake Lively's subpoenas for content creators who have covered her case against Justin Baldon. She's suing her former director and co-star for workplace sexual harassment and an alleged retaliatory internet smear campaign. Lively's team is seeking information pertaining to dozens of content creators, reportedly more than a hundred, including some ex accounts with fewer than 100 followers.She's also seeking communications and information direct ...
The Verge's Deputy Editor, Thomas Ricker, has finally taken on van life. Presented by @T-Mobile
The Verge· 2025-11-06 15:36
One of the places I like to work remotely is at this folding desk, especially outside. The other place I like to work is my standing desk, which is also my bed. By far my favorite place to work in the van is at this lagoon table on my bench seat.The lagoon table, everybody in van life knows, is the swiveing mount, so I can move it back and forth. I can also raise and lower it. At home, I have two 27in monitors for lots of space to spread out.But here, I only have the espresso display. It's 15 in, and I abso ...