Amazon Fire Phone For Dummies

Chapter 5

Phone Calls

In This Chapter

Calling someone

Connecting with a contact

Calling popular people and favorite friends

Getting a call

Dismissing calls

Checking for missed calls

Dialing into voice mail

In the warm, inviting sea of amazing things the Fire phone does, the solid ground that is Phone Call Island is easy to overlook. In fact, you may have had a similar experience to my own: While playing with one of the phone’s delightful features, I was interrupted by a phone call. I thought, “Oh, yeah: The thing’s a phone, after all.”

Peel back all the fancy graphics, the Internet, the camera, Firefly, and everything else that the Fire phone can do and you’re left with a basic task: ...