Amazon is one of the largest online retailers in the US, competing with Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, Google or Samsung on the tablet market, but soon it could do the same also on the smartphone market. Americans tested at the moment several smartphone prototypes, one of them having 4 3D sensors capable of interpreting 3D gestures made by users and following their gaze, the idea being to offer new methods of controlling smartphones.
This is the strategy that Amazon approaches to compete with Apple's iPhones, but it remains to be seen how successful it will be. The Amazon smartphone will have no less than 6 integrated cameras, 4 of which are 3D and dedicated to gesture recognition or eye tracking, plus another front and main camera. The smartphone has the chorus name Mr. Smith and would include a 4.7-inch screen, so it will fit perfectly in the multitude of Android terminals now available on the market.
Apple's iPhones force Android terminal manufacturers to become more and more inventive in order to remain relevant in a market oversaturated with smartphones, and the ideas of those from Amazon could guarantee their success.
