Does Amazon ‘Kindle Phone’ sound good to you?
Amazon is rumored to be partnering with Hon Hai industries, same company behind some of Apple’s products. Will the online retail giant’s upcoming smartphone be a boon or a bane? Well, it looks like our previous post has a valid point.
Indeed, Amazon’s been expanding its boundaries like no other. Breaking the bank to make people buy the Kindle Fire, aggressive marketing campaigns and product refreshes, et cetera… there’s no stopping the Seattle-based company from dominating the digital content market.
According to numerous posts, Amazon is planning on releasing a smartphone within the Q4 of next year, although it is said not to be directly targeted against current popular mobile platforms such as the Apple iOS and Google’s Android, the device may still pose as significant threat to these OSes given that Amazon’s devices are largely known to have a ‘always connected’ and ‘always updated’ content profile and that Amazon’s current online offerings is just as vast as the rainforest that it’s been named after.
According to Reuters in a research note dated November 17, the online retail giant is now said to be jointly developing a smartphone with the world’s top contract cellphone maker Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. and that Amazon’s expected to pay non-recurring engineering fees to Foxconn, but Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd. will be assigned to actually make the device and multiple components. The upcoming smartphone from Amazon is also said to possess an ARM-based processor from Texas Instruments (TI) and baseband chips are said to be supplied by Qualcomm.
The current Kindle Fire tablet possesses components from numerous Asia-based semiconductor firms such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor (formerly Hyundai Electronics) and Texas Instruments, a Dallas-based semiconductor company. So it’s not surprising that they’ve chosen both Hon Hai and Foxconn to produce these rumored high-performance, low-cost smartphones.
Focusing on a different market apart from e-readers generally makes Amazon one heck of a risk-taking machine, they’re obviously well aware of the fact that they’re venturing unexplored seas but given that they have the guts to pull off such a risky move, they’re bound to stay successful no matter what.
This report was originally posted on PopHerald.com as , under Gadgets and Mobile Category.
Sources: Forbes, Reuters
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Amazon is rumored to be partnering with Hon Hai industries, same company behind some of Apple’s products. Will the online retail giant’s upcoming smartphone be a boon or a bane? Well, it looks like our previous post has a valid point.
Indeed, Amazon’s been expanding its boundaries like no other. Breaking the bank to make people buy the Kindle Fire, aggressive marketing campaigns and product refreshes, et cetera… there’s no stopping the Seattle-based company from dominating the digital content market.
According to numerous posts, Amazon is planning on releasing a smartphone within the Q4 of next year, although it is said not to be directly targeted against current popular mobile platforms such as the Apple iOS and Google’s Android, the device may still pose as significant threat to these OSes given that Amazon’s devices are largely known to have a ‘always connected’ and ‘always updated’ content profile and that Amazon’s current online offerings is just as vast as the rainforest that it’s been named after.
According to Reuters in a research note dated November 17, the online retail giant is now said to be jointly developing a smartphone with the world’s top contract cellphone maker Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. and that Amazon’s expected to pay non-recurring engineering fees to Foxconn, but Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd. will be assigned to actually make the device and multiple components. The upcoming smartphone from Amazon is also said to possess an ARM-based processor from Texas Instruments (TI) and baseband chips are said to be supplied by Qualcomm.
The current Kindle Fire tablet possesses components from numerous Asia-based semiconductor firms such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor (formerly Hyundai Electronics) and Texas Instruments, a Dallas-based semiconductor company. So it’s not surprising that they’ve chosen both Hon Hai and Foxconn to produce these rumored high-performance, low-cost smartphones.
Focusing on a different market apart from e-readers generally makes Amazon one heck of a risk-taking machine, they’re obviously well aware of the fact that they’re venturing unexplored seas but given that they have the guts to pull off such a risky move, they’re bound to stay successful no matter what.
This report was originally posted on PopHerald.com as , under Gadgets and Mobile Category.
Sources: Forbes, Reuters
Search for more Amazon and Kindle Fire Articles:
Amazon Kindle Fire “phone” an iPhone 4S rival
Amazon Kindle Fire is a 7-inch Google Android-based tablet
iTunes 10.5.1 with iTunes Match now available
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