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Old 04-27-2012, 01:47 PM   #16
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Why would Amazon sell a phone. The whole idea of an Amazon product is to get you to the Amazon store to buy stuff. The Kindle is a way to get you to buy books from Amazon. They have the Amazon app store and selling apps is where the money is not selling phones.
Does Amazon not sell music? Are there not apps for phones? Does Apple not make most of their profits selling phones?

Seems like a no-brainer to me.
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Old 04-27-2012, 02:11 PM   #17
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Old 04-27-2012, 03:49 PM   #18
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I have many Wi-Fi devices.
I have a "feature" prepaid Page Plus Cellular LG phone. The live part screen is about 1 1/2 inch by 1 1/2 inch. There is no data package, no monthly charge. It costs 4 cents a minute.

I would love to have a 4 or 5" phone, prepaid, but with WiFi like the Kindles, or my Samsung Tab 7 Plus, and not have to have a "data plan" like the smartphones are being forced to have.

I can see an Amazon phone giving me that in a nice package.

So I say, "sign me up."
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Old 04-27-2012, 04:00 PM   #19
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Beats "ember".
Ember is reserved for the glow Kindle
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Old 04-27-2012, 05:56 PM   #20
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Could be.
But I thought that one was going to be called the Kindle Nite Lite.
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Old 04-27-2012, 08:04 PM   #22
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Why would Amazon sell a phone. The whole idea of an Amazon product is to get you to the Amazon store to buy stuff. The Kindle is a way to get you to buy books from Amazon. They have the Amazon app store and selling apps is where the money is not selling phones.
Apple would like a word with you.
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Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney believes that Amazon will release a Kindle Phone in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report from November. “Based on our supply chain check, we believe FIH [Foxconn] is now jointly developing the phone with Amazon,” wrote Mahaney in a note to investors.

Because Amazon is comfortable with thin hardware profit margins — an easy price to pay if it leads to greater ecosystem sales — it could potentially sell a smartphone at cost. Mahaney’s report says that the Amazon phone could be built for somewhere between $150 and $170, and that Amazon would sell it at cost to customers.

Markkanen concurs with Mahaney: “Given that Amazon’s strategy is to treat devices as a content hub rather than a stand-alone product, it’s pretty likely that price points for the smartphone would be very aggressive.”
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Why would Amazon sell a phone. The whole idea of an Amazon product is to get you to the Amazon store to buy stuff. The Kindle is a way to get you to buy books from Amazon. They have the Amazon app store and selling apps is where the money is not selling phones.
People said the same exact thing about Google. If they do make a phone, it widens their net for ebook sales and other digital media. Now people aren't just buying stuff on their kindles, but also on their phones.
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I'm waiting for the Kindle Inferno. Or Conflagration.
I like Kindle Blaze.
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