# Amazon Fire Phone question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-fire-phone-question/1033683>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 8, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-fire-phone-question/1033683 "2026-10-08T20:54:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-fire-phone-question/1033683/1 "2026-10-08T20:54:40Z")

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Anyone remember these?

I have one and I’d like to press it in to service to play Audible (and other) audiobooks.

The problem is, it’s a very old phone. And I’m not all that good with phone-y things.

Can anyone point me to how to get the Audible app on there? Preferably without wiping the original OS, because the pseudo-3D effect is cool. But if that’s the only way, so be it.

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-fire-phone-question/1033683/2 "2026-10-08T22:17:54Z")

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In theory, there should be a configurable option in the Fire OS settings to allow you to install applications independently of the Fire app store.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e44oNrknZ-A/maxresdefault.jpg "How-to Sideload Apps on the Amazon Fire Phone | Pocketnow") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e44oNrknZ-A)

After that, it becomes a question of how to find someplace that can make apps available for web download outside of an app store. There are several, but I don’t have any recommendations. I will say that the extreme age of the operating system (equivalent to Android 4.x Jelly Bean, no later than 2013) will be a huge limiting factor as to whether an app will install on the device.