Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Amazon 3D smartphone coming soon

Speculation about an upcoming smartphone signed Amazon started again in recent days and some details have leaked on the web.

If there is a well expected to turn on the smartphone market actor is Amazon. Rumors speculating about his ambitions in this area date back several years. In 2013, several reports gave the impression that the cyber-profit working in partnership with HTC to produce two terminals. One of them placing on the high end would feature a 3D interface and an eye tracking technology with 6 sensors. Last month, a spotted Information The paper suggested that cyber-merchant market them this year and the Wall Street Journal recently confirmed this information.


According to information collected by BRG , Amazon plainchant well on both smartphones. The high-end terminal would have a 4.7-inch slab but does provide a definition in 720p. It is powered by a Snapdragon chip (unspecified model) and host 2 GB of RAM. Previous reports made mention of a 801 Snapdragon.

The unit would have good 6 cameras whose main sensor is 13 megapixels coupled to a conventional front camera. Four others, supported by various sensors are located at the four corners of the machine front and would achieve rendering 3D auto stereoscopic or without special glasses. The device inserted within a protective shell deliberately hiding its final design, made its appearance in images.




 Unsurprisingly, Amazon would use Fire OS, the Android fork already on its Kindle Fire HD / HDX and it would be optimized at several levels to display 3D elements. To notably wallpapers and more dynamic applications specially optimized, particularly with regard to the rendering of buildings in the mapping service.


Amazon would also optimized its stores to allow users to see more realistic images of products and to display details not visible in 2D. Then it is sufficient to tilt the screen of the device. The 3D effect is also applied to different system icons, I must say that the carousel shelves Kindle Fire lends itself quite well already.

In addition, the company would provide to publish a special development kit to third-party developers so they can actually take advantage of all these new features and optimize their applications.

In the United States, the company will embark his MayDay system service 24/7 support made directly videoconference with Amazon adviser. The device could be announced later this summer.

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