2 Android smartphones failed because of trying too hard to be different

To attract more customers, Android smartphones manufacturers always try to make their products as better and more unique as they can.

With a reasonable strategy to attract manufacturers, Google made Android become the number 1 mobile platform of the world in just a short time. Among tons of Android smartphones, to choose suitable devices is not an easy task for users. To attract more customers, manufacturers always try to make their products as better and more unique as they can. However, sometimes it’s because of the difference that they failed and be forgotten quickly.

1.      Amazon’s phone

Amazon has one dream start when entering the mobile market with their cheap tablet Kindle. Because of this reason, many people expect in a same successful result of their first smartphone which named Fire Phone. This first smartphone of Amazon has quite a lot new function to make the difference in comparison with thousands of other Android smartphones. These include the user interface with effects based on the perspective of the user is recorded by 4 infrared cameras on the front of the smartphone, Besides is the unique gesture interface as well as a specialized application such as Firefly for shopping on Amazon. However, the bright spots are not really important to cover the weaknesses of this phone which are lacking Google services, high price and small screen. So, from a great expected product, this smartphone is quick to be forgotten by users even when Amazon lowered the price. In last August, Amazon announced to stop manufacturing Fire Phone, the rest is now history, the only thing we know is that smartphone cost Amazon more than 130 million dollars.

2.      HTC’s phone

We had heard of Facebook making smartphones before, although it has just not happened yet but at east Facebook cooperated with HTC to produce HTC first, which is believed to the first Facebook smartphone.

The remarkable thing of this smartphone is it’s equipped a brand new Facebook Home interface developed by Facebook which supports users many new features. However, using Facebook as a shield for tricking users doesn’t score them at all. Different from other Android smartphones, it deeply integrated Facebook application on the user interface. Everything from the status, the image is updated directly on the device's home screen. You can like or comment effortless right on it. However, if you are not one of those people who indulged in using Facebook, you will see this interface has more inconvenient for basic tasks.