Today, we heard a rumour about an impending Android smartphone that ditched Google's services and brand completely, and there seem to be only 2 company's which have been the focus of the media's attention about this phone. The less-obvious company is perhaps the true culprit. Amazon makes a similar tablet in-house, which it uses to sell media, applications and games to users. The other potential culprit is Facebook.
At first sight, it seems as if the social network is the guilty party as there are real Facebook phones right now. They are not well-liked, and they've nearly flopped as retail product. But they're there. These phones are straightforward, inexpensive feature phones that come with deep integration with Facebook. Awfully poor specs aside, the user experience on the phone is not exactly acceptable. The iOS and Android Facebook programs are miles and miles better, and the phones are better too.
Facebook is a web-site. Very simply. Those men don't build smartphones. They don't have that kind of talent in house. There's a good chance these guys will stick to what they're good at esepcially since the previous Facebook phones have just flopped. The genuine star of this essay is Amazon smartphone. This is the guilty party.
Amazon makes the Kindle media tablet and ebook reader. It ditches Google's services and brand wholly, though it uses Google's Android as the platform that makes the tablet possible. Amazon has all everything in place for success. It's hardly even a gamble since the Kindle Fire is doing very well. We are not asserting it's easy to achieve success in the smartphone game, but when you have the all the correct ingredients, it's a lot easier that way.
There's also that old rumour that Amazon is working on a smartphone with the same OS and the same access to Amazon's stores and services, so there's that. And Amazon has more balls than Facebook, I'd say.
At first sight, it seems as if the social network is the guilty party as there are real Facebook phones right now. They are not well-liked, and they've nearly flopped as retail product. But they're there. These phones are straightforward, inexpensive feature phones that come with deep integration with Facebook. Awfully poor specs aside, the user experience on the phone is not exactly acceptable. The iOS and Android Facebook programs are miles and miles better, and the phones are better too.
Facebook is a web-site. Very simply. Those men don't build smartphones. They don't have that kind of talent in house. There's a good chance these guys will stick to what they're good at esepcially since the previous Facebook phones have just flopped. The genuine star of this essay is Amazon smartphone. This is the guilty party.
Amazon makes the Kindle media tablet and ebook reader. It ditches Google's services and brand wholly, though it uses Google's Android as the platform that makes the tablet possible. Amazon has all everything in place for success. It's hardly even a gamble since the Kindle Fire is doing very well. We are not asserting it's easy to achieve success in the smartphone game, but when you have the all the correct ingredients, it's a lot easier that way.
There's also that old rumour that Amazon is working on a smartphone with the same OS and the same access to Amazon's stores and services, so there's that. And Amazon has more balls than Facebook, I'd say.
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