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Amazon Stops Selling Fire Phone After Struggling to Boost Sales

  • Web retailer wrote off $170 million in product inventory
  • Phone no longer on sale at same time new iPhone is introduced
A man holds the new Fire smartphone by Amazon.com Inc.

A man holds the new Fire smartphone by Amazon.com Inc.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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If you’re in the market for Amazon.com Inc.’s Fire phone, you might have to look for it on EBay Inc.

Inventory of the smartphones, which went on sale in July 2014, was no longer available on Amazon’s website and AT&T Inc.’s online store.