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Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, d...
I don't have one, but the only compelling feature it offered was advanced built-in OCR with an API.
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What is that used for?
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Presumably you could use the phone's OCR capabilities to detect and transpose photos of text and other objects into information utilized by apps that do more than just tell you where to buy things.
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