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wallcraft · 11-17-2011, 01:04 PM

If this is for the US, the most interesting question is will Amazon offer their own cellular service? Walmart is doing this with their "no contract" plans (Walmart Offering $45 Unlimited Cellphone Plan Nationwide). The phone might be primarily for Europe, where branded phones sold without a SIM make more sense (or Amazon could bundle service). Amazon has cellular service bundling experience world-wide from their Kindle 3G sales, but that experience may also tell them that getting phone companies to innovate is hard.

11-17-2011, 01:04 PM	#3
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	If this is for the US, the most interesting question is will Amazon offer their own cellular service? Walmart is doing this with their "no contract" plans (Walmart Offering $45 Unlimited Cellphone Plan Nationwide). The phone might be primarily for Europe, where branded phones sold without a SIM make more sense (or Amazon could bundle service). Amazon has cellular service bundling experience world-wide from their Kindle 3G sales, but that experience may also tell them that getting phone companies to innovate is hard.