Amazon Smartphone Coming Early Next Year : Sources

The online retail massive Amazon is examining a new mobile phone and may release production later this season or early next season, the Wall Street Publication revealed Wed.

The tale, datelined Taipei, said the company is working with Oriental component providers to test the new device, which would enter a populated industry covered with Apple's iPhone, Samsung's Universe devices and LG models.

Amazon, the books innovator whose Amazon kindle audience has grown substantially popular nowadays, extended into the product industry last season with Amazon kindle Fire, which operates on Google Operating system software.

The Operating system foundation is used by a little bit more than half the mobile phones in the US industry, while the iPhone accounts for 31.9 %, according to an industry study launched recently.

In the overall US industry for mobile devices, Korean-based New samsung led with 25.7 %, followed by LG, another Japanese firm, with 19.1 % and Apple with 15 %, according to the study by the comScore group.