he same rumor mill that brought you the whole Amazon phone story has now chocked up a new rumor, about amazon using Windows 8 on their phones. Some people may be surprised because Amazon just doesn’t seem like one to use someone else’s operating system, and I agree with that for the most part.I don’t think Amazon would normally be one to use a common operating system, but when I thought about it, I realized Amazon did use Android for the Kindle Fire, it’s just heavily skinned to look more like Android is Amazon’s proprietary operating system. Maybe that’s what they’ll do to Windows 8.
The only other option that I see for Amazon is to get someone from Microsoft to legally skin Windows 8 for Amazon, and that option doesn’t seem all that likely either.
I’ve also been wondering why Amazon doesn’t just use a version of Windows Phone 7. It would incorporate the phone part a lot better than Windows 8 and it would probably be a lot easier to play with and customize than Windows 8. Well that’s just my opinion.
Anyway, here are the reasons that have been stated by certain people for Amazon to be making a phone. An analyst from Citigroup named Mark Mahaney wrote a report on Amazon’s Asian supply sources and confirmed that Amazon will release a “Kindle Phone” sometime in 2012.
In the report Mahaney wrote, “With the clear success of the Kindle e-Reader over the past 3 years, and Kindle Fire possibly succeeding in the low-priced Tablet market, we view this as the next logical step for Amazon.”
Kevin Chang Citigroup’s hardware research analyst said “channel checks have led him to believe that the Amazon phone might run on a ‘Microsoft operating system.’”
Mahaney didn’t actually confirm the prediction, but “suggests the likelihood by noting that if Amazon was using Google Android as its OS, it will probably need to pay Microsoft an ‘OS royalty’ as several leading manufacturers like Samsung and HTC are doing.” This basically backs up my reason from before.
So do I really think that Amazon will release an Amazon phone that runs Windows 8? No, not really. Do I even think that Amazon will release a Kindle Phone? I don’t think that it’s that likely, but it’s more likely that they will release a phone than they will put Windows 8 on it.
The only other option that I see for Amazon is to get someone from Microsoft to legally skin Windows 8 for Amazon, and that option doesn’t seem all that likely either.
I’ve also been wondering why Amazon doesn’t just use a version of Windows Phone 7. It would incorporate the phone part a lot better than Windows 8 and it would probably be a lot easier to play with and customize than Windows 8. Well that’s just my opinion.
Anyway, here are the reasons that have been stated by certain people for Amazon to be making a phone. An analyst from Citigroup named Mark Mahaney wrote a report on Amazon’s Asian supply sources and confirmed that Amazon will release a “Kindle Phone” sometime in 2012.
In the report Mahaney wrote, “With the clear success of the Kindle e-Reader over the past 3 years, and Kindle Fire possibly succeeding in the low-priced Tablet market, we view this as the next logical step for Amazon.”
Kevin Chang Citigroup’s hardware research analyst said “channel checks have led him to believe that the Amazon phone might run on a ‘Microsoft operating system.’”
Mahaney didn’t actually confirm the prediction, but “suggests the likelihood by noting that if Amazon was using Google Android as its OS, it will probably need to pay Microsoft an ‘OS royalty’ as several leading manufacturers like Samsung and HTC are doing.” This basically backs up my reason from before.
So do I really think that Amazon will release an Amazon phone that runs Windows 8? No, not really. Do I even think that Amazon will release a Kindle Phone? I don’t think that it’s that likely, but it’s more likely that they will release a phone than they will put Windows 8 on it.
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