{"id":54327,"date":"2012-07-06T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=54327"},"modified":"2012-07-06T12:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T10:18:39","slug":"amazon-preparing-smartphone-to-rival-apple-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/54327-amazon-preparing-smartphone-to-rival-apple-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon preparing smartphone to rival Apple, Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is reportedly readying to enter the mobile race and take on Google and Apple by developing its own smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>The online retail giant is cooperating with hardware maker Foxconn, who are in the process of developing a competitive mobile device to challenge the iPhone and Android-based phones.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is beefing up their portfolio, as the company has been filing multiple wireless technology patents over the last couple months.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours suggest that the device will be revealed and possibly made available within the fourth quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>So could a Kindle smartphone be on the horizon?<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-07-06\/amazon-said-to-plan-smartphone-to-vie-with-apple.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/54303-samsung-galaxy-sales-generate-record-breaking-profit.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samsung Galaxy sales generate record-breaking profit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/54267-judge-patent-system-out-of-sync.html\" target=\"_blank\">Judge: patent system out of sync<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/54223-apple-threatened-with-a-ban-over-warranty-dispute.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Apple threatened with a ban over warranty dispute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/54217-razr-and-razr-maxx-android-upgrade-in-sa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Razr and Razr Maxx Android upgrade in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Motorola RAZR MAXX brings longest talk-time to SA \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/54113-motorola-razr-maxx-brings-longest-talk-time-to-sa.html\"><strong>Motorola RAZR MAXX brings longest talk-time to SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon could be entering the mobile phone market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":54333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[723,13143,2078,13141],"class_list":["post-54327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-smartphone","tag-foxconn","tag-kindle-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54339,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54327\/revisions\/54339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}