“Rumors have been circulating for quite a while about Amazon doing a smartphone,” Jim Lynch writes for Eye On Linux. “Thanks to BGR we’ve finally gotten a look at what Amazon’s smartphone looks like, and it looks a lot like… well… an iPhone.”
“This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone,” Lynch writes, “the iPhone has been enormously successful so it’s no shocker that Amazon might be… er… inspired by it.”
In terms of size, we’re told that the phone is a bit large but is reasonably comfortable to use with one hand. Amazon’s unique gesture controls were designed in part to make one-handed operation of a large phone as easy as possible, and one source tells us the phone definitely succeeds in that regard. Our sources tell us the device will feature specs including a 4.7-inch display with 720p HD resolution, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM, six individual camera modules and a highly customized version of Google’s Android operating system similar to the one seen on Amazon’s various Kindle Fire tablets. – BGR
“Amazon recently released the Fire TV set top box, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Apple TV. That plus the new smartphone might be considered two strikes against Amazon by Apple’s lawyers,” Lynch writes. “It makes me wonder if there will be some sort of legal tipping point where Apple decides that it has enough of a case to finally go after Amazon.”
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