Amazon’s got a new device up its sleeve.
A job recruitment flyer has indicated the Seattle-based company is Developing a “revolutionary” product that’ll be “bigger than the Kindle.” It’ll also “deliver digital media” and “disrupt the current marketplace.” That’s a lot of hopes piled on top of one device. So, what is it?
Well, What That product will do or what category it will fit into doing now? been revealed. Speculation is there fore at an all-time high. To help get to the bottom of this mystery, Pocket-lint has compiled a rumor round-up of potential candidates.
Everything you want or need to know about Amazon’s latest crop of hardware rumors is spelled out below. We’ve even Considered some of the far-out products currently on Amazon’s road map. Although we can not say for sure what Amazon is working on, This should definitely get your interest piqued (if it isn’ta alreadycreated).
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Kindle smartphone
Rumours about an Amazon-branded handsets have continually popped up in Recent years. It’s well-known That Amazon and HTC, for instance, are working on a line of Android handsets that’ll supposedly launch in 2014. However, other rumors have Claimed That Amazon and Foxconn Technology Group overpriced worked on a smartphone in 2012. The Kindle-branded device was supposedly Meant to serve up Amazon Prime content.
The hearsay does not end with Foxconn, though. Word slipped out via DigiTimes in October 2013 That Amazon was partnering with compact camera manufacturers Primax, Liteon, and Sunny Optical for advanced sensors That would allow 3D gesture and eye tracking control in its first smartphone due in the second quarter of 2014.
The smartphone will supposedly boast six compact camera modules. Four of Which are VGA cameras that’ll sit along the device’s four corners, enabling highly accurate 3D gesture and eye tracking control. There willalso be a 13 – megapixel rear-facing camera and a huge 12-megapixel front-facing camera.
Other rumored specs include a 3D display, quad-core Snapdragon processor 800, and 4.7-inch display. While all that sounds fine and dandy, it’s important to remember That Amazon emphasised its bigger-than-Kindle device will allow it to deliver digital media to customers “in new ways and disrupt the current marketplace.”
Amazon’s recruitment flyer seemed to tease a new, revolutionary, and innovative device rather than a smartphone. A Kindle smartphone, even if it’s decked out with 3D capabilities, would not likely deliver digital media in new ways. And it certainly wouldhave to be revolutionary in order to de-throne Samsung from the No. 1 spot in the Android handset marketplace.
Read more: Amazon smartphone to come with 3D gesture and eye tracking controls
Cinnamon STB
Reports Claimed first in April 2013 That Amazon was Developing a set-top box thatcould stream video over the Internet.
The device, reportedly born in Amazon’s Lab126 division, was Meant to rival Apple TV, Roku, and Google TV, and Bloomberg said it would launch in autumn 2013. Well, that time frame has now passed. Still, rumors persist.
The Wall Street Journal Claimed Amazon’s set-top box would be available for purchase During the run-up to Christmas 2013 So THAT children and adults alike could wake up and see a shiny, new video streaming device during Their trees. That did not happen.
Beyond release date nonsense, The Wall Street Journal revealed the device’s platform will give the other set-top boxes a run for theirmoney. Previously assumed to be a vehicle for the Amazon Prime video service, Amazon’s set-top box will reportedly have third-party apps and content from a variety of sources.
Amazon has allegedly met with developers about designing streaming media apps and games for the device, Which documents currently goes by the codename Cinnamon. Those developers apparently had a mid-October deadline. That is, until AllThingsD Claimed Amazon will not launch its foray into the living room until 2014.
Amazon is now Aiming for spring 2014. Other details, like price, have not been reported. However, if Amazon’s recruitment flyer is indeed about a set-top box, we will know all the details within the coming months. After all, an Amazon set-top box would deliver digital media, and, if underdeveloped well enough, could disrupt the marketplace.
Read more: Amazon STB reportedly delayed until 2014
Android gaming console
There
doing now? been much talk about this as of late, but reports Claimed in August 2013 That Amazon was working on an Android-based console That would release by Black Friday (29 November). Like the Amazon set-top box, That did not happen.
The Amazon console was supposed to include a controller and work with Amazon’s digital library of Android apps. Amazon even Showed off this bundle to anonymous developer, though Equally, anonymous sources told various publications like Game Beat That They were not sure if Amazon Considered the game console a serious product.
There’s not much else to go on here. It’s clear however That Such a console would Directly rival other Android-based consoles like Kickstarter darling Ouya, Mad Catz MOJO, and BluStacks GamePop. With Such heavy competition, Amazon would really need to bring it in. order to disrupt the marketplace. It might even sport a forked version of Android, much like its Kindle line of eReaders.
Read more: Amazon Android game console reportedly in the works, could release by November
Prime Air drones
We do not really think a drone is Amazon’s mystery, bigger-than-Kindle device, but it’s worth considering in a rumor round-up. Especially Because Amazon itself revealed in December 2013 That it is testing Prime Air drones That can deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes after orders are placed.
Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, revealed on CBS’s 60 Minutes That Amazon has underdeveloped prototypes of autonomous drones That can deliver a 5lb package up to 10 miles away from an Amazon warehouse. Amazon has 96 warehouses scattered across the U.S..
Bezos said the drones could take to the air within the next few years, though the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Approved doing now? Their official use yet. In fact, the FAA can not even change its in Regulations to accommodate the drones until 2015 at the earliest, According To Bezos. So, for now, Amazon is still testing the reliability and safety of its drones.
Amazon’s mystery device is in the development stage and will be able to deliver digital media. Although Amazon’s drones are in testing and can make deliveries, it seems unlikely That Amazon is talking about them. Autonomous drones can certainly deliver the media, but we’re safely assuming they’ll carry physical orders rather than digital.
Read more: Amazon testing autonomous drones, can deliver packages in 30 minutes
And that’s it. If you have any other ideas as to what Amazon is currently working on, let us know in the comments below.
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