Amazon Fire Phone update adds emoji and ability to change wallpaper
Amazon’s Fire Phone has been a commercial flop and will forever go down as a black eye for the company, but that hasn’t stopped Amazon from updating it with new features. Today, Fire Phone users can install a pretty big update that updates the phone’s underlying software to Android 4.4 KitKat. No, you still can’t use Gmail or install apps from Google Play, and Amazon’s release notes unsurprisingly make no mention of the Android version bump; Fire OS looks nothing like Android on other smartphones. But using 4.4 as the Fire Phone’s foundation has allowed Amazon to add an emoji keyboard, for one. (The actual emoji characters are identical to those you’d find on a stock Android device, according to Ars Technica.) Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy…
Source:: The Verge