Contradicting earlier reports, Amazon said Sunday it had no plans to give
away its long-rumored smartphone for free.
Two days after former Wall Street Journal reporters Amir Efrati and Jessica
E. Lessin reported that that Amazon was considering the giveaway strategy for
"its long-planned smartphone," the company broke its silence with a statement
dismissing the suggestion.
"We have no plans to offer a phone this year, and if we were to launch a
phone in the future, it would not be free," the Internet retail giant said in a
statement to AllThingsD's Ina Fried.
The company was still figuring out if the free model would work for its
hardware partners, according to another unnamed source in the report. Friday's
report also indicated that Amazon had approached wireless carriers about
distributing its handset but that the Internet retailer would probably make its
play for customers directly through its own Web site.
These are not the first rumblings we've heard of Amazon working on a
smartphone of its own. Citigroup analysts suggested in 2011 that the
Seattle-based e-commerce giant was working with Foxconn to develop a smartphone
slated for release in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Although rumors that the company was working on a phone that would run a
variant of theKindle Fire Android operating system have been circulating for
some time now, the latest version is said to include 3D technology.
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