Amazon Fire Phone: The Missing Manual

Chapter 5. Photos, Video, and Music

You’ll learn to:

• View photos and videos in the Gallery

• Take photos and videos

• Watch videos, including free videos from Amazon Prime

• Listen to music, including free music from Amazon Prime

YOUR FIRE PHONE IS a multimedia and entertainment marvel. Like all smartphones, it has a camera so you can shoot your own photos and videos, but as always, there’s a special Fire twist—moving images called lenticular photos. You can edit your photos right on the Fire phone as well.

Furthermore, you can enjoy photos, videos, and music from a variety of sources: transferred from a PC or Mac (Connecting Your Fire to Your Computer), received as email attachments, or streamed to your phone. You can also watch movies and TV shows from Amazon Prime Instant Video.

Using the Photos App

YOU VIEW PHOTOS ON your Fire phone in the Photos app. Tap its icon either on the Carousel or the Apps Grid. The first time you open it, you’ll see a screen with a grid of square thumbnails of all your photos and videos, four across. Turn your Fire phone sideways, and instead of a regular, even grid, your thumbnails will display according to the orientation they were taken—horizontal pictures horizontally, vertical pictures vertically. The word “All” appears at upper left, confirming that you’re seeing all your photos. (If your phone doesn’t reorient the screen when you turn it, you need to enable ...