If it feels like it’s been a while since we talked about an Amazon smartphone, that’s probably because it has been. Last fall, rumors about one or more Amazon handsets were running rampant, talking about features like an advanced camera system for 3D gesture control or suggesting that HTC might be producing this hardware for Amazon. ...
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Amazon’s first smartphone could be a pretty impressive piece of hardware, if some of the rumors we’ve been hearing check out. Putting aside the question of what company might actually design and manufacture the hardware for a moment, we’ve been hearing about a handset with pseudo-3D visual effects and in-air motion tracking. That latter system would supposedly work thanks to an array of ...
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Fun fact: flame wars, petty bickering, and troll hijinks aren’t just confined to the online world; they find a ready home in corporate tactics as well. That’s a reality we were reminded of this week, as Apple announced its new iPad family on the same day Nokia unveiled not just its first Windows-based tablet, but also the first-ever Windows Phone phablets, at its Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi. Predictably, the Apple news obliterated Nokia’s announcement in the news cycle – but, the Pocketnow Weekly being a platform-agnostic, equal-opportunity podcast, we’re ...
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HTC needs help. Despite a restructuring of its smartphone lineup, compelling models like the flagship One, and investing heavily in advertising, it’s facing unprecedented losses. We’ve heard about efforts to shake things up a little in upper management, but even with the progress that may bring, the company still has some tricky times to get through before it might find itself on more solid ground. That means that HTC is open to plenty of unusual ideas, looking for that spark that will really help ...
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A little earlier this week we heard a report claiming that HTC and Amazon had joined forces to work towards producing the retailer’s long-rumored smartphone, and suggesting that they’d been developing three separate models. We’re still trying to piece together what actually might be going on here, but today we get a little more to go on, with some new details arriving about this supposed partnership. For one, this new info – which Bloomberg attributes to a pair of sources – is more specific than ...
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Rumors about an Amazon smartphone go back years, and even with the pace picking up in recent months, updates have been few and far between. Earlier this year, some of those rumors looked to the idea of a heavily subsidized, if not free handset, claims Amazon was quick to refute. We also heard about plans for a pair of phones, one a more typical handset, and
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Amazon recently announced its latest batch of Kindle Fire tablets, and while it had a nice assortment of new models to show off, tablets were the only thing on the agenda; what about those long-standing rumors of an Amazon smartphone? This past spring, those rumors latched-on to the idea that this Amazon phone could bring back the 3D display, briefly coming in to our lives with models like the HTC Evo 3D before we all lost interest. However, talk about ...
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If Amazon was after some free press last week, they definitely got a lot of it with the rumors that they were not just working on building their own phone, but that they’d also offer this device for free to Amazon Prime customers. We all know about the benefits of paying Amazon $80 a year in advanced, and it did make sense for the company to give a smartphone a try given their Android app store. Sadly, an Amazon spokes person just came on record with the Wall Street Journal, and confirmed that the company is ...
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We’ve heard tons of rumors regarding an Amazon phone for the last couple of years. It still hasn’t become a reality, and many of us believe it has to do with Amazon’s closed business model, which has only proven to be mildly good on their tablet offerings as a strategy. Now, once you start noticing that Charlie Kindel, former General Manager of the Windows Phone developer platform, show up for work at Amazon on Monday, and being in charge of a secret program, rumors get good. This is the first time we see Amazon actually hiring a high-caliber executive from any other ...