News - Amazon's Kindle smartphone design to include six cameras?

[HEXUS]

Four of the cameras are utilised for motion tracking and gesture control duties.

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[crossy]

Six cameras on the Kindlephone - is that so if you're using it on the train, it can pop up a message saying what other people around you are watching/playing?

Bad attempts at humour aside, I'm not enthused by this. First off, it's a Kindle, so "sort of" Android and no Play store (unless you raid xda of course).

Secondly, gesture control sounds like the kind of thing that's been done to look good on marketing. Gesture control makes sense on a desktop PC, or for Kinect, where you've got two hands available. But typically you'll be holding your phone in one hand, meaning that you're limited to one handed gestures only. And there's only a limited number of those - basically scrolling and selecting.

So in summary, with iPhone and Android we got treated to sight of folks talking to themselves like the deranged. Now we're going to add to that mental illness theme by having Kindlephone users - to quote the lyrics of Word Up ...

Wave your hands in the air like you don't care
Glide by the people as they start to look and stare

Very appropriate!

(By the way, nothing in that last paragraph above is intended to poke fun at mental illness, or those unfortunate enough to be afflicted by it - I have nothing but contempt for those "people" that do treat it as a source of amusement)

[slipthemonkey]

I agree, can't see the benefit of having gesture control on a mobile phone. I try to avoid buying Amazon if I can anyway and there is nothing about this device that has me changing my opinion there.

[rabbid]

With 6 cameras perhaps it comes with a parking app too?!