Ever since Amazon released its first Kindle Fire tablet, we’ve been curious to learn if this interest in Android would lead the company along to eventually releasing its own smartphone. Rumors have been insistent that such a device has been in the works for quite a while at this point, and talked about unusual features like a multi-camera gesture-tracking system and a pseudo-3D eye-tracking interface. More recently, we’ve seen a few images of ...

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Two weeks back, rumors about Amazon’s first smartphone made a big leap forward, going from the stuff of analyst speculation and rumor to the leak of pics of a very real physical handset. While a bulky case hid some of the subtleties of the phone’s design from us, we could still see enough – specifically, the four front-facing cameras that would equip the phone to track gestures in 3D space – to convince us that this was indeed the Amazon hardware ...

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Last week marked a major development for the long-rumored idea of an Amazon smartphone, as the first convincing pictures of development hardware leaked. Just as we’d been hearing about for months and months, the handset featured an array of front-facing cameras, fitting with rumors of an elaborate 3D in-air gesture control system. It remains to be seen just how useful or practical that arrangement might be, but it’s hard to deny that this could be an ...

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Late last week, we brought you the latest in a long series of rumors about Amazon’s efforts towards the release of the company’s first smartphone. Over the months, there had been talk of multiple models, possible plans for subsidized sales, and a very unusual eye-tracking system using multiple cameras to allow the phone to create a pseudo-3D effect without the need for a special screen. That recent update attempted to sort things out about a possible ...

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Last fall, the long-rumored Amazon smartphone started sounding pretty interesting, as reports distinguished it from run-of-the-mill slates by suggesting that Amazon would give the phone an elaborate series of eye-tracking cameras, capable of producing pseudo-3D parallax effects without the need for a specialized display. That rumor’s now back alongside news that Amazon’s been showing off the hardware to developers, and some new updates on the company’s ...

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After dropping off the radar for several months, last week news of Amazon’s first smartphone found itself back on our radar, picking up the name “Project Aria” and getting pegged by rumors as being in the works for a release later this year. It was nice to get an update suggesting that the project was still moving forward, but what about the details? Were some of those crazy features like a ...

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