By Clint Boulton, eWeek
Perhaps one of the worst-kept secrets in the high-tech world today is that Amazon.com, the lord of e-commerce, is building a tablet. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos even told Consumer Reports to “stay tuned” when asked if there was an Amazon device other than a Kindle coming down the pike. Of course, there have been no official confirmations, and gadget blogs are surprisingly in the dark and confined to guesswork on this front. The current rumors have Samsung building the device(s) for Amazon, powering it with Nvidia Kal-el quad-core processors. We don’t claim to know better, but considering that Amazon reportedly will launch the tablet(s) later this year, we need to start figuring these things out. Bezos told Amazon’s shareholders June 7: “Most of our customers shop with us from desktop or laptop computers, but people have a different posture with tablets. They lean back on their sofa. People leaning back on their sofa, buying things from Amazon is another tailwind for our business, so I’m very excited about that.”
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