Amazon May Launch A Smartphone In Q4 2012

Amazon.com Inc. may launch its own smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2012, Citigroup said, referring to the control channel power chain in Asia.

The study, of 17 November, said the brokerage believes that online retail giant is now working together to develop the phone with the world's best mobile contract manufacturer Foxconn International Holdings Ltd.Amazon May Launch A Smartphone In Q4 2012

"With the obvious success of the Kindle e-Reader over the past 3 years, and eventually succeed in Four Kindle expensive tablets on the market, we see this as the next logical step for Amazon," said the brokerage firm.Amazon May Launch A Smartphone In Q4 2012

You wait for Amazon to pay non-recurring engineering fees Foxconn, but Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd, to make reality the device, and a number of components.

Real estate expected to accept the smartphone, Texas Instruments and Qualcomm baseband processor chips.

"We expect smartphones to Amazon for a mid-range camera based on the processor to adopt," said the broker and the total costs of the company to make such a phone at $ 150 - $ 170 each.

Kindle the company recently launched the fire tablet uses components from Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor.

The first Kindle shipped Four of the 14 November and Amazon should sell as much as five million units in the fourth quarter and over the next year.

"We continue to believe that Amazon has now set his eyes on mobile (and tablet) Media and the limit of consumption.".Amazon May Launch A Smartphone In Q4 2012

The shares closed at $ 204.5 Thursday on Nasdaq and rose about 1 percent in Friday pre-market trading.