Educational Technology

July 19, 2012

The Latest on the Amazon Smartphone: It’s real, says Bloomberg

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

by David Zax, Technology Review

No longer just a chimera, that Amazon smartphone I’ve mentioned here before now looks to be real, per Bloomberg’s predictably anonymous “two people with knowledge of the matter.” The phone would reportedly run on the Android operating system; it seems a pretty fair bet that it would look remarkably similar to the Kindle Fire, which runs a “forked” version of Android designed to funnel users into Amazonian content. A number of commentators are skeptical of the value of an Amazon smartphone–Time’s Jared Newman, for instance, sees “many problems” with such a device. And it’s true if Amazon wants to offer, in effect, a premium smartphone (read: an iPhone-like device) at non-premium-smartphone prices, it will have its work cut out for it. It’ll need apps, apps, apps, most of all.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428469/the-latest-on-the-amazon-smartphone/

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