News - Amazon smartphone in 2012, say analysts

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Amazon may be entering smartphone market with mid-range handset.

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Speculation is rife as to the specifications of the smartphone which is likely to run Google's Android mobile operating system.

Now will it be "real" Android or, a la Kindle Fire, some kind of Amazon-specific not-quite-but-almost? If the former then I welcome it , if the latter then damn them!

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Now will it be "real" Android or, a la Kindle Fire, some kind of Amazon-specific not-quite-but-almost? If the former then I welcome it , if the latter then damn them!

Couldn't agree more. This is the sort of fragmentation that worries me (not the apple fan boy hardware one that I've seen no evidence of). Really hope amazon rethink the custom android API for the fire. I can understand the new front end etc but why use a different API?

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I thought that they made a slight profit on the fire.