It is only a matter of time before Amazon puts out a phone too. Eventually they will all have a tablet, a phone and a box that connects to your TV. Apple has iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Google has Android phones and tablets plus Google TV. Amazon will need to add the other two devices to compete. One of the features that Amazon is touting here is Whispersync which automatically synchronizes all your media (books, videos, music) between your different devices. That only makes sense if you have multiple Amazon devices. I agree that Samsung, HTC and the other pure hardware vendors are in serious trouble here. Apple and Amazon will always be able to undercut their pricing because they get more revenue from the content and services (music, video and book purchases/rentals, app store purchases...) than from the hardware. They can afford to sell the hardware at a loss while Samsung and HTC cannot. Josh On 29/09/11 8:30 AM, skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke wrote:

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@Phares, yes insightful and true way of how things are going to be IMHO. Tablet front Amazon is going to be a big time player and phone front its gonna be Android (motorola+google??), iOS and Windows (Nokia+Microsoft). HTC better look for a place to fit in pretty soon!

./Ok3ch