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Can you not do all of that with one hand already? Reading while eating is actually harder if you need to tilt the device rather than swipe your finger. You could always place the phone on the table and just use your finger, or move the phone while you eat to keep it in your view without any of the tilting being interpreted as other things by the phone.

Or hold it with one hand and scroll with your thumb. Either way, not a compelling argument, you still need to use your hand.

Still seems gimmicky because I can easy flick and scroll on my phone using one hand.

If that's the main thing the Amazon Fire has to offer I'm really not impressed.

I've never heard of evidence that auto scrolling behavior is actually better UX as a general design decision for scrollable content. In fact, I've heard the opposite: when users can't control the scroll of content or scrolling is difficult to achieve, they give up more easily on their task.