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Amazon teasing an entirely new device set for an unveiling on June 18th
Posted on 6/4/14 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 6/4/14 at 3:31 pm
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Amazon will launch a new product later this month, and it's promising that it'll be something pretty exciting. Company CEO Jeff Bezos will unveil the new product at an event in Seattle on June 18th, and Amazon has begun teasing the new product with a video of people's reactions to using it — though without showing the device itself. Naturally, they all seem pretty amazed by it. But even though we can't see the device, the people's reactions and movements seem to suggest that the new product includes some sort of 3D experience. "It moved with me," one person says.
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It's long been reported that Amazon is developing a smartphone with a 3D display, and this video seems to suggest that this month could finally be the moment for its unveiling.
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Posted on 6/4/14 at 3:43 pm to Cs
Posted on 6/4/14 at 4:15 pm to SG_Geaux
With that level of 3D camera tracking I wonder if it can accurately use your face for authentication. I think the most interesting thing about this is that Amazon is trying do something different. While they have innovated eReaders, the Kindle Fire line is about creating a good value version of what everyone else is doing.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 4:16 pm to TigerinATL
Surely that thing is going to DESTROY batteries.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 6:13 pm to TigerinATL
quote:android has had face unlock for years. I'm sure developers could expand on that easily.
With that level of 3D camera tracking I wonder if it can accurately use your face for authentication
Posted on 6/4/14 at 7:12 pm to hashtag
The asshat CAD123X or what ever will be here soon to shite on this parade
Posted on 6/4/14 at 7:46 pm to Cs
Phone
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Posted on 6/4/14 at 9:58 pm to Cs
Please please please be a phone. I'm in need and would be happy to make my switch from apple to amazon.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 10:01 pm to BuckeyeFan87
I don't know... if it's anything like their original Kindle Fire, I'd wait a few generations.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 10:03 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Yeah, but they're pretty good at returns and helping out the customer from my experience. I've never used a kindle though, were they slow at solving issues with them? Or we're they just lacking in comparison?
Posted on 6/5/14 at 9:07 am to BuckeyeFan87
Interesting
Posted on 6/5/14 at 9:16 am to Cs
Hopefully they have an amazon prime video app that can be ported over to regular android
Posted on 6/5/14 at 9:32 am to BuckeyeFan87
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Yeah, but they're pretty good at returns and helping out the customer from my experience. I've never used a kindle though, were they slow at solving issues with them? Or we're they just lacking in comparison?
yes, they were. I love my kindle, i am actually on my 3rd one. But the first few years, there were a shite ton of issue they just ignored.
I have use the new fire and was underwhelmed. It seemed really slow.
Posted on 6/5/14 at 10:21 am to Hawkeye95
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have use the new fire and was underwhelmed. It seemed really slow.
I have the original fire. I just flashed Jelly Bean on it and it works fantastic. I think it was just their OS that was bad.
Posted on 6/5/14 at 10:25 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
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I have the original fire. I just flashed Jelly Bean on it and it works fantastic. I think it was just their OS that was bad.
Yep, once rooted and other than being heavy, the original was fine. The damn usb port wasn't though.
Posted on 6/5/14 at 2:51 pm to TigerinATL
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With that level of 3D camera tracking I wonder if it can accurately use your face for authentication. I think the most interesting thing about this is that Amazon is trying do something different. While they have innovated eReaders, the Kindle Fire line is about creating a good value version of what everyone else is doing.
I thought the Kindle Fires were considered among the lamest of the Android tablets primarily because they're not real Android but some Amazon bastardization, and the tablets are sold at a loss like most things Amazon has been doing to drive revenue the last few years, with the belief that some day, they can stop spending more than they take in and keep some profits.
Anyway, about the 3D phone. 3D turned out to be a completely worthless gimmick for TV. What's it going to do for a phone? Whatever the case, I expect Amazon will sell it at a loss for a long time, and it will be yet another mediocre product whose sales numbers they will never reveal.
Posted on 6/5/14 at 3:10 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
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I thought the Kindle Fires were considered among the lamest of the Android tablets
The Interface is definitely lacking, but the hardware is usually pretty decent for a budget priced tablet.
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3D turned out to be a completely worthless gimmick for TV. What's it going to do for a phone?
Like I mentioned earlier, it would make Face Unlock more secure and harder to fool with photos. I can also see it using eye tracking to let you scroll and swipe with your eyes. Other than that I agree it seems pretty gimicky. They almost have to have another angle on using the cameras to justify the cost and battery life. But I'm guessing they won't and you're right that this will be another underwhelming loss leader.
Posted on 6/5/14 at 3:36 pm to Cs
looks like a phone or small tablet with some sort of face or eye tracking
Posted on 6/6/14 at 4:17 pm to Cs
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With some heavy modifications, Amazon and OMRON were able to tune the company's Okao Vision offering to deliver its desired stereoscopic GUI. One perk is that rather than have to swipe or waste screen space on pull out menus, users can access them simply by tilting their head up or down or side to side.
OMRON's system uses the phone's IR cameras, its accelerometer, and gyroscope to quickly determine the user's head orientation with respect to the phone face, with little power used in the process. Amazon has reportedly been courting top developers to use a currently secret SDK to produce versions of their apps that take advantage of these extreme 3D parallax effects. It also has redesigns its core apps to take advantage of them.
About the only disappointment is that TechCrunch reports that the phone is indeed going to be 720p (1280x720) in resolution, as some others have suggested. Given that the phone is only 4.7-inches (versus the Android flagship standard of 5 to 5.5 inches), this lower resolution may be less noticeable, though.
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Posted on 6/6/14 at 4:37 pm to TigerinATL
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One perk is that rather than have to swipe or waste screen space on pull out menus, users can access them simply by tilting their head up or down or side to side.
That sounds a lot more troublesome than automatic orientation flipping, which I often have to disable due to spurious activations.
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