It seems that Amazon's intentions to get into the mobile phone business has gone one step further. According to it, the largest online store would have signed an agreement with Foxconn International, so that the latter would be responsible for the manufacture of its advanced terminal. And beware, the price that would be around at its launch would be below 200 euros.
Foxconn International is one of the best-known Asian manufacturers: it is the one who is in charge of assembling the Apple, Acer, HP, Sony, and even Amazon's own equipment such as its Kindle readers. But apparently, and according to what a Korean newspaper has learned, the company has already signed an agreement with the multinational to be responsible for the manufacture of a smartphone under the Amazon seal.
It is not the first time that it has been heard that the largest online store in the world wants to gain a foothold in the mobile telephony sector; they are already several months of rumors. In addition, it is not far-fetched: Amazon is already in the mobility sector with two teams that have had a strong impact on the market, such as e- book readers or Kindle Fire tablets, the latter based on Google's Android.
And perhaps the latter is the competitor to beat: the latest launch of the Internet giant was in a price range that started at 300 euros for the Nexus 4 "" latest smartphone that has been presented "" in its entry version: 16 Gigabytes of internal memory. However, in the agreement that would have been signed between Amazon and Foxconn, the figures that are heard at first are the following: between 100 and 200 dollars (about 150 euros maximum at the current exchange rate).
On the other hand, Android would surely be the operating system that Amazon could integrate in its first foray into smartphones. But it is not clear if the strategy to be followed would be the same as the one chosen in the touch tablets; that is to say: creating tablets with an interesting price, fully integrated with the services offered by the online store and based on Google's Android, although with somewhat limited customization.
And it is that Amazon teams, although they have access to all the services that the company provides on the Internet, it is also true that it does not offer a total Android experience. What's more, you would not have access to the Google application store; Amazon already has an alternative proposal called Amazon AppStore, where there is also an extensive catalog of options to get performance, but which perhaps should be better adapted to use on a smartphone, in case the rumor of the manufacture of Amazon's first advanced mobile be true.
Finally, the number of terminals available for launch could be five million units. Meanwhile, neither of the two protagonists has come out to deny what the Asian newspaper Taiwan Economics News has commented. It's more. When Jeff Bezos was told about the possibility of an Amazon smartphone , the only thing he answered was that this year 2012 would be for tablets and that no mobile would be seen under the brand of the company that he founded.
