A crude mock-up of a potential Kindle smartphone.
(Credit:
David Carnoy/CBS Interactive)
Back in August of 2010, I wrote a column titled, "Will Amazon produce its own Android tablet?"
To give credit where credit was due, the article was a spin-off of a piece that the New York Times Bits blog did about Lab126, the division of Amazon behind the Kindle, located in Cupertino, Calif., not far from Apple. The article suggested that Amazon was looking into producing more hardware beyond the Kindle and I thought that a foray into the Android tablet market seemed likely, particularly considering it dovetailed nicely with Amazon's e-reader/e-book venture.
Well, it took a little while, but the Kindle Fire is finally here, just a few weeks from actually shipping. So now that we can check that one off, I thought it worth asking what's next for Amazon in the consumer electronics space.
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