A little fire is all what you need to create a Kindle Smartphone.
(Credit: David Carnoy/CBS Interactive)Already in August 2010, I wrote a column titled "Amazon will produce its own Android tablet?"
To credit credit was due, spin off, the article was of a piece of the New York Times bits blog about debate, the distribution of the Amazon Kindle, is behind the in Cupertino, California, not far from Apple have. The article suggested that Amazon was looking into production more hardware on the Kindle and I thought, a trip to the Android Tablet market seemed likely, especially considering it nicely integrated with Amazon e readers/e-book venture.
Well, it took a while, but the Kindle is there finally fire, only a few weeks from actually shipping. So now, that we, that you you can check, I thought it the question, what's next for Amazon in the consumer electronics space?
Sure, there are rumors of a larger 10-inch tablet, (perhaps Amazon could call it the Inferno or Blaze), which could come as soon as early next year. But in addition, I am thinking of something a little smaller, a Kindle Smartphone. For now, do that Amazon Android even is skin color with fire, it can certainly for a device with a 4-inch instead of a 7-inch screen.
In fact, the New York again not mentioned an Android Tablet times article in 2010, but there are talking about a potential Amazon phone:
Debate shortly in the mobile phone market in competition with Apple and Google, but the project ' Amazon's unattainable seemed.' "But the person [anonymous source] said that Amazon the idea had not been finally rejected a phone in the future."
In recent weeks, there was some chatter about Amazon might pick up besieged WebOS Palm, HP for $ 1.2 billion and immediately bought off a cliff in the back seat ran the TouchPad tablet. I don't think Amazon would buy WebOs in a mobile phone, but it makes more sense for it to buy it, as some have suggested for its patents.
Why do not I believe that Amazon has to have an interest in "his" OS for a phone? Now that everything revolves around the apps and Amazon already has his choice for Android, with many developers already create Android apps. The big problem with WebOS was that Palm (and later HP) no developer support, and I am not that Amazon is ready for millions of developers, get to make, as does Microsoft with Windows phone 7 applications for their platform.
It seems clear to me, that Jeff Bezos and Amazon is a very clear mission ahead have in the future electronics product design. As Jeff Bezos said several times during the introduction of the fire and the new e-ink Kindle, "we are premium products create and offer them at nonpremium prices." This is Amazon's new mantra, and I suspect that a Kindle-phone with a two year contract would be free. Alternatively Amazon could also come with new pricing model for service, which affected current carrier rates. But a partnership with a major carrier like AT & T (which provides data for the Kindle 3 G models) seems more likely.
As I with Russ Grandinetti, content, the idea for the fire to ignite, said he had Amazon's Vice President of the Kindle to say this, when I asked to whether Amazon fire in competition with the iPad saw him:
"Four years with the Kindle, what we have tried to do is to build devices to get out of the way." We have that with books and people really loved it despite some skepticism. Now we take Amazon's media companies-in music, movies and even Web services and we have tried, which pull together in one device, consumers love. We always think that is a recipe for success, and we think we have to ignite a really good chance with fire. "
In other words, Amazon sees these types of mobile devices as a means to an end, and this user is Amazon's goods and consume services. What better than consumers still on the same driving user friendly Kindle Smartphone were cheap (maybe even free), a sexy, and Grandinetti said services to all to mention the Amazon Appstore for Android.
How long before Amazon does a Smartphone? I can tell you. But there are still a number of open positions about to debate, and most of them are designed to create and produced later new Amazon mobile devices.
Of course, things get more complicated each time, if you engage mobile phone technology and airlines. But I think it's only a matter of time until you see a Kindle Smartphone; Finally, Jeff Bezos knows that his company against the iPhone directly compete Amazon Apple-, if he wants to- or even to beat.
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