Once again Jeff Bezos shows he knows
how to build an aura of mystery/ On Wednesday he released a teaser
video
to invite the public to request tickets for the big reveal of their
latest product on June 18th. The video show consumer
holding the mysterious new device and delivering rave reviews. There
are no details of what the device could be leading to plenty of
speculation that we might finally get the Kindle smartphone that has
been rumored for the last 2 and half years.
It was right after Amazon gave us the
Kindle Fire that talk of a smartphone first
appeared. When know confirmation came from any spokesperson of
the e-commerce giant the rumors went away. The following summer the
rumors of a Kindle smartphone seemed to have more credentials when
the Wall
Street Journal reported sources spotted representatives of Amazon
talking to a smartphone manufacture. Still there was no announcement
and again the rumors went away. Then just last month the rumors
came back as technology blog BGR (boy genius report) hand leaked
renderings of what appeared to be the new smartphone. With the video
and the upcoming announcement it is looking as though we are past the
rumor stage.
The one question left seems to be will
the new Amazon smartphone look anything like what was reported by BGR
last month. According to that report the specifications, that seems
to be coming straight from Amazon, are that the smartphone will
include: 3 front-facing cameras that will be to give the user a 3D
experience without need of special equipment, a forth front-facing
camera for video conferencing, a 4.7-inch display, 2GB of RAM and a
13-megapixel rear-facing camera. The smartphone will run the same
forked version of the android operating system that the Kindle Fire
tablets run. So, all apps for the smartphone will have to come from
Amazons app store.
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