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Amazon Underground

by Amazon.com
Rated: All Ages

Price: Free Download
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Available instantly

This app needs permission to access:

  • Install packages
  • Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
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Latest Updates

What's new in version 6.4.0.200
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

Product Details



Product Features

  • The Amazon Underground app includes enhanced features that aren't available on the Amazon Shopping app found on Google Play
  • Shop millions of items including movies, TV shows, songs, books, apps, games, and audiobooks
  • Get over $10,000 in apps, games and even in-app items that are actually free (available in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France)
  • Stream Amazon Instant Video movies and TV episodes via the Amazon Instant Video player
  • Quickly search, get product details, and read reviews on millions of products on-the-go
  • Find products, read reviews and compare prices instantly by scanning a barcode and using your phone's camera.
  • Get notifications on the latest deals and track your orders
  • Instantly scan Amazon gift cards and apply them to your Amazon account using your phones camera
  • Tap the microphone icon and say "track order" or "track my last order" or "where is my camera?" to see your open orders. Reorder items quickly by saying "reorder paper towels" or "buy more batteries" (US only)
  • Buy with confidence, knowing that all transactions are securely processed

Product Description

The Amazon Underground app includes enhanced features and access to content that isn’t available on the Amazon Shopping app found on Google Play. Underground combines Amazon’s best mobile shopping experience with instant streaming of Amazon Instant Video PLUS over $10,000 in apps, games, and even in-app items that are actually free. Unlimited lives, levels, upgrades – everything. Shop millions of digital and physical products in Amazon’s catalog and manage your orders from anywhere. Optimized for your mobile phone, Underground allows you to quickly search, compare prices, read reviews, share products with friends, access Gold Box deals (US only) and make purchases securely.

** Requires Android OS 4.03 & up and rear facing camera.

The app requires the permissions listed below to operate properly. We have provided a specific explanation of how the app uses each permission so that our customers can be sure that we are using them in their best interests, to improve the customer experience:

* Read Contacts permission is used to provide customers access to their phone contacts from the app for the purposes of sending Amazon gift cards.
* SMS permission is used to simplify the sign up process for features such as Mobile Carrier Billing and Amazon Mobile Accounts that require phone number verification.
* Camera permission is used to enable the Scan It feature, which allows customers to perform product searches by scanning a barcode or pointing their camera at a product they are interested in.
* Microphone permission is used to enable the voice search and voice assistant features, and the microphone is left off when these features are not in use.
* Location permission is used to enable a convenience store delivery service offered by Amazon in France and Japan only.
* Phone status permission is required to support notifications in China.
* Storage permission is used to enable the downloading of 3rd party apps from the Amazon Underground App to device storage.

Technical Details

Size: 35.1MB
Version: 6.4.0.200
Developed By: Amazon.com ( Privacy Policy Click to see complete result in a new window )
Application Permissions: ( Help me understand what permissions mean )
  • Install packages
  • Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • Access information about Wi-Fi networks
  • Manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager
  • Allows an application to receive messages via Google Cloud Messaging
  • PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS
  • Record audio
  • Change Wi-Fi connectivity state
  • Open network sockets
  • Install an app update
  • Read the user's contacts data
  • Access the flashlight
  • Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service
  • Act as an AccountAuthenticator for the AccountManager
  • Write to external storage
  • Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
  • Allows an application to uninstall home screen shortcuts
  • Access information about networks
  • Delete packages
  • Allows installation of home screen shortcuts
  • Monitor incoming SMS messages, to record or perform processing on them
  • Send SMS messages
  • Allows an application to read device settings
  • Access the vibration feature
  • REAL_GET_TASKS
  • Request authtokens from the AccountManager
  • Required to be able to access the camera device
  • Read from external storage
  • Read only access to device state
Minimum Operating System: Android 3.0
Approximate Download Time: Less than 5 minutes

Customer Reviews

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Here is a list of the permissions and what your customers in general think of them.

Install packages
OK, I can see the need for this

Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi) location
Do you REALLY need to know where I am? I don't think so.

PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
Not really sure on this one.

Access information about Wi-Fi networks
I am pretty sure you don't need this.

Manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager
List of what accounts? My email account? Cellular billing account? The only account you need access to is the AMAZON account.

Allows an application to receive messages via Google Cloud Messaging
This sounds like a fancy way of saying blow up your phone with advertisements.

Record audio
Another black mark against you. You do not need to do this. This, at best, is invasion of privacy. At worst this spying on the public.

Change Wi-Fi connectivity state
This sounds necessary for large downloads. Will give you this one.

Open network sockets
Related to downloads (hopefully)

Install an app update
Sounds good to me.

Read the user's contacts data
NO NO NO NO NO. Invasion of privacy. You don't need this. On the off chance this is used to push advertisements to people in my contact list it may result in me getting fired, kicked out of social groups, etc. NO NO NO and again, NO!

Access the flashlight
WTF?

Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service
See accounts comments above.
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Why the hell does this app want to access all my contacts!?!?! Pervasive permission for some feature I'll never use. Sorry, no.

Also this app is super active in the background and if you ever look at log output is just constantly dumping stack traces to the debug log.

Sad, this is a good app, but Amazon seems to want to load it up with crapware / bloatware.
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With the recent update, amazon now wants access to my SMS & my contracts. Sorry Amazon, you don't need to see into those parts of my life in order to sell me things I choose to buy. Uninstalling the app now. The mobile web version will have to do now.
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Why do you need access to my flash light and microphone? How about you start making calls from my phone too. Not interested, will just use the Amazon website.
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Latest update wants to send SMS. The previous permissions were bad - but adding SMS crosses the line for me. Deleting from my phone now - Amazon mobile will work just fine for my needs.
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There is no reason for Amazon to have access to my contacts! No reason for it to send text on its own! I'm deleting the app and may cancel prime too if they don't fix this
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I used the app to buy stuff from Amazon. Period. I have no interest in sharing purchases with friends or family, and if for some reason I decided to do so, I'd send them a link. I do not see the need to allow the Amazon app to have access to my SMS texts and contacts.
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Downloaded this app for the SOLE purpose of being able to watch Amazon Instant Video on my phone. With a Prime membership, that's a significant feature. Instant Video won't run on my device, though, it tells me--AFTER I install it. Nice and sneaky, huh? Also, even with an EXTENSIVE list of permissions, there's only one I don't get: permission to add to the list of blocked apps. Afraid of competition? Is that why you want to be able to block apps? Uninstalling and going back to my nice, perfectly functional Netflix app.
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