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Amazon declined to comment on the report. The layoffs would appear to signal a retrenching for Amazon, switching the lab's focus from the smartphones to products for the smart home. With the shift, Amazon would still be trying to challenge Apple and Google, but in a different arena. Amazon launched the Fire phone -- its first-ever smartphone -- in July 2014. The top-shelf handset featured four front-facing cameras that created 3D graphics, but it failed to ignite much in the way of consumer interest or actual sales.
To try to drum up sales, Amazon cut the subsidized price of the phone in September, Initially available via AT&T for $200 with the standard two-year contract, the 32GB version of phone saw its price drop to just 99 cents, The subsidized price of the 64GB edition fell to $100, down from $300, Three months after the launch, Amazon took a $170 million charge to wipe out olixar meshtex iphone x case - brazen red the lost value of its unsold Fire Phones, adding that it still had $83 million in inventory at the end of that period, In the Fire phone's wake, Lab126 has turned its focus to new smart-home gadgets such as the Echo, which brought the e-commerce giant into the competitive market of voice assistants, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google's Google Now speech-recognition software all work in smartphones to allow users to make calls or bring up driving directions, However, Amazon's Alexa software, which powers the Echo, isn't used in a phone and instead is in a plug-in speaker that stays at home..
Also still in the works at Lab126 is a computer for the kitchen codenamed Kabinet that would act as a hub for an Internet-connected home, using the same voice-command technique as the Echo, the Journal reported. A tablet that delivers 3D images without the need for special glasses is also said to be in the works. "Dozens" of engineers have been dismissed in recent weeks from the secretive lab behind Amazon's consumer hardware, the Wall Street Journal reports. Following Amazon's failed efforts to break into the smartphone space with its Fire handset last year, the company is said to be laying off engineers in the hardware unit responsible for the handset.
Samsung's latest tablets might not have you running to grab your credit card, but anyone interested in a high-end Android tablet should still pay attention to the new-new, Click through the slideshow for a closer look and keep an eye out for the full review coming soon, The Tab S2 comes in an 8- and a 9.7-inch model, The larger one olixar meshtex iphone x case - brazen red will be available in an LTE version, Samsung has said the Tab S2 is the "thinnest and lightest tablet of its size ever."Both tablets are downsized from last year's models; from 8.4- to 8-inches and 10.5- to 9.7-inches..
The Galaxy Tab S2 comes with a fingerprint scanner for added security. Shutterbugs will be kept happy with an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera. The capacitive buttons on the bottom edge of the tablets are signature Samsung. The Galaxy Tab S2 has a 5.6mm (0.2-inch) metal frame. The Tab S2 is powered by an octa-core processor, and will run on Google's Android 5.0 Lollipop. With easily blockable speakers on the bottom edge, maybe not. Aside from design updates, the Galaxy Tab S2 isn't a big upgrade from the Tab S. Despite this, anyone interested in a fast Android tablet with a stunning screen should definitely still check it out.
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