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Amazon gets ambitious: New Kindle, maybe a smartphone?

Saturday, 07 July 2012 13:35
BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Reports have said that 400 million smartphones shipped in 2012’s first quarter. And according to sources, that busy market is about to get even more crowded.

Bloomberg.com has reported that Amazon.com is working on a smartphone that would compete with Apple’s line of iPhones and Google’s Android. Sources say Amazon is working with Foxconn of China on the units, and wants to add patents for wireless technology that would help it defend against copyright infringement allegations.

Android already has their own issues. They have been accused of sending out spam through infected phones. Google claimed that the spam messages came from PCs but were formatted to look like they came from Android smartphones.

The search engine’s representatives suggested that spammers are using infected computers and a fake mobile signature to bypass anti-spam mechanisms in their emails, according to the BBC. But computer security company Sophos could not determine that the formatting on the messages was faked.

Meanwhile, four of the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablets are expected to be manufactured in August or later this year, according to Computerworld. They include three 7 inch Kindle Fire 2 models and one 8.9 inch unit. Prices have not been revealed, but the new Google Nexus 7 will cost $199 when it goes on sale in a few weeks.

All Things D points out that Amazon has shown the knowledge to develop their own device. The company has its own app store, along with digital music and movies, and they’ve shown their ability to create hardware with Kindle and Kindle Fire. With the first Kindle, the company bought phone service wholesale from AT&T and Sprint and bundled it with its items.

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