This weekend we echoed the information handled by multiple international sources about the possibility that the global electronic commerce giant, Amazon, was preparing for the launch a free smartphone. Well, with the news still recent the US company has been quick to deny and completely dissociate itself from this hypothesis.
What was truly revolutionary about the original rumor was the fact that Amazon was willing to take out a device without any kind of contract ties in relation to the connection, so we would be talking about a completely free terminal and that, according to some sources were launched to venture back in the day, it could go free to certain clients of the giant settled in Seattle.
There will be no smartphone in 2013
Taking into account the repercussion reached by such rumors, whose domino effect began with the impulse of the former reporter of The Wall Street Journal Jessica E. Lessin, from Amazon have decided to break their silence to ensure through a statement sent to AllThingsD that "There are no plans to offer a phone throughout this year and if there were for the future, it would not be free".
In this way, it seems that all the commotion about the imminent and predictably devastating entrance of Amazon in the smartphone world it is nothing. In fact, It is not the first time that 'the hare jumps' in this same sense. since, if we go back to 2011, we will remember how on those dates certain analysts already spoke of the possibility that the company based in the capital of the State of Washington had closed an agreement with Foxconn to develop a smartphone that should have reached the stores at the end of 2012.
For the moment, the only reliable leak that to date seems not to have been denied, is the one that stated at the beginning of last month that Amazon is working on the development of your own game console.
Source: AllThingsD Vía: CNet and Chron