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Amazon Developing As Many As Six New Android Based Tablets
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Amazon is reportedly working on plans for as many as six different tablets to go on sale as it expands beyond its Kindle and Fire tablet experiments.
Citing multiple sources, including Demos Parneros, president of U.S. Retail for Staples Inc (SPLS.O), which sells the Fire, the Reuters news agency reported that the company is working on devices with screen sizes as large as 10 inches, which would pitch it directly at the Samsung/Apple competitors.
Amazon is able to subsidise the sales of tablets by tying them into its own retail services, and is expected to be working on multiple devices after being convinced by the Fire tablet that a subsidised tablet is benefiting e-commerce sales.
Amazon will also have an incentive to develop the tablets so that the upgrade path is smooth for users, and hence should also be easier to develop apps for by outside developers who can then code one app for all the tablets, regardless of screen size or resolution.
Supporting reports of a big push into the tablet market are recent job hirings at the company's Lab126 R&D centre in California. The company has grown its workforce from around 500 staff to over 800, and most of the recent staff have wireless or device backgrounds.
On the web: Reuters
Tags: [amazon] [tablet] [kindle]
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