New gadgets: Amazon to release smartphone
The company aims to announce its new product by the end of June and ship to customers by the end of September.
WASHINGTON:
Amazon is preparing to release a smartphone in the second half of 2014, thrusting itself into an already crowded market with Apple and Samsung models, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company aims to announce its new product by the end of June and ship to customers by the end of September in time for the holidays, the Journal said, citing unnamed people briefed on the matter. Amazon, it said, hopes to differentiate its phone from other models with a screen that displays hologram-like three-dimensional images, which can be viewed without the use of special glasses. The company has been showing versions of the phone to developers in San Francisco and Seattle, sources said. Earlier this month, the retailer unveiled a new media streaming device, Amazon Fire TV, which it touted as simplifying the experience of watching video online.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2014.
Amazon is preparing to release a smartphone in the second half of 2014, thrusting itself into an already crowded market with Apple and Samsung models, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company aims to announce its new product by the end of June and ship to customers by the end of September in time for the holidays, the Journal said, citing unnamed people briefed on the matter. Amazon, it said, hopes to differentiate its phone from other models with a screen that displays hologram-like three-dimensional images, which can be viewed without the use of special glasses. The company has been showing versions of the phone to developers in San Francisco and Seattle, sources said. Earlier this month, the retailer unveiled a new media streaming device, Amazon Fire TV, which it touted as simplifying the experience of watching video online.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2014.