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Re:How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Googl... by CurtHagenlocher on Friday July 13, 2012 @04:26PM (#4241699)
If Amazon uses the open source part of Android without actually joining whatever program Google has for manufacturers, then it's not clear how it would be good for Google.

(Such a scenario would probably also prevent Amazon from advertising it as an "Android phone".)

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Re:How Amazon Can Disrupt Smartphones and Take Apple & Googl... by mc32 on Friday July 13, 2012 @04:32PM (#4241730)
At this point it'd be too early to know if "Amazon" phone would have less cachet than "Android" phone, to most phone users. Since kindle has a pretty good brand they could call it the Kindle phone. Altho that would take with it some unwarranted/disconnected association. (long battery life/monochrome)
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