Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone

Re:Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone by iscrewyou on Friday April 11, 2014 @06:19PM (#7575936)

https://www.google.com/#q=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Fnews...

Would they sell it at or close cost like most Amazon hardware? I don't see a lot of the customer using "amazon content (movies and music, which amazon is trying to bet heavy on)" on their tiered data plans.

Or sell above cost and join the market of, oh so many, other handsets?

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Re:Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone by sliverstorm on Friday April 11, 2014 @06:29PM (#7575977)

You can still access Amazon content on WiFi, and they could play some games with caching. Flash is sold at a premium (wasn't the iPhone like, $100 to go from 8GB to 16GB?) but not actually all that expensive.

Google Music is a perfect example, actually. I allow it to stream music over 3G, but it still aggressively manages a local cache of music anywhere from 1-2GB, leveraging WiFi to save data. (It would use more if I didn't have a dinky 8GB device)

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Re:Amazon Preparing to Release Smartphone by pat2man on Friday April 11, 2014 @06:27PM (#7575970)

Well it would lock them into the Amazon ecosystem...

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