June 18th is the big day for Amazon’s new 3D smartphone.
The mysterious device is still unnamed and has been rumored for over a year now. What do you think it will be called?
“Probably the Kindle Phone. Maybe a Kindle Fire Phone…”, says Gizmodo. Good guess— after all, see how their products are named below!
The device will be unique in the marketplace thanks to its ability to deliver 3D effects courtesy of four front-mounted IR cameras. TechCrunch has learned that Amazon is using Omron’s Okao Vision face sensing technology to track the user’s head. The result is a 3D effect currently unique in the marketplace. 3D glasses are not needed and there aren’t limiting 3D factors like on the Nintendo 3DS.
The phone runs Amazon’s fork of Android, FireOS. It will come with several built-in apps that use these extreme 3D parallax effects. The company has been courting developers for sometime according to previous reports.
The phone itself is reported to sport a 720p 4.7-inch screen and be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 2GB of RAM. There will be six cameras on the device — four dedicated for the head tracking along with a front-facing camera and a rear-facing 13MP camera.
The phone’s price, name and release date? To be unveiled soon! The 12-day countdown begins!