Amazon Preps Kindle Smartphone with Stereo-3D Display – Report

From X-bit Labs: A smartphone from Amazon has been under widespread discussion for over one and a half years now, but there are still no signs of it on the market. A fresh portion of rumours about the Kindle smartphone suggest that Amazon’s Lab 126 is actually developing two handsets: one is going to be an average smartphone, whereas the other is claimed to be a premium model with autostereoscopic 3D screen.

The high-end Amazon Kindle smartphone will use retina-tracking technology to form autostereoscopic 3D image (that does not require special glasses to see) and help users navigate the content using only their eyes, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal that cites two sources familiar with the matter. Images on the smartphone would seem to float above the screen like a hologram and appear three-dimensional at all angles.

At present it is unclear what kind of advantages do S3D displays have for smartphones. Stereo-3D video content is scarce, not all video games can benefit from S3D, whereas three-dimensional user interfaces are too unfamiliar for the masses.

Being one of the most influential suppliers of media tablets in the U.S., Amazon naturally has ambitions to broaden its hardware offerings in a bid to offset the declining packaged media business. The company’s smartphone has been in development since before the Kindle Fire tablets were launched; in fact, the smartphone missed last year’s holiday season launch window, which indicates that it was not as competitive as the second-gen Kindle Fire slates.

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