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Amazon's 3D Smartphone As a (Useful) Gimmick

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-play-holochess? dept.

Steve Patterson (2850575) writes It's rumored that Amazon will launch its own 3D smartphone on June 18. While it may be compelling, a sexy 3D feature won't catapult Amazon into the lead of the cut-throat smartphone category. If this were true, the EVO 3D, introduced two years ago by HTC and the W960, introduced by Samsung four years ago, would have been top sellers rather than niche products. However, a smartphone that renders 3D images does present an internet retailing opportunity for Amazon. It would be useful to Amazon in selling tangible consumer merchandise, just like Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet was designed to improve Amazon's merchandising of ebooks and video streaming products. What else would you like to use a 3D phone for?

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  1. Might be good internationally by redalien · · Score: 2

    Amazon has deals with lots of network operators around the world, giving Kindles download access on their networks. I'd happily live with gimmicky 3D if I could check my emails for free without hunting down airport wifi.

  2. use for 3D phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    primarily, it will be used for 3D sexting.

    secondly, it will be used for watching tiny movies.

  3. Re:Porn by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fuck your porn.

    Oh, wait.

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  4. Been wanting one for a long time. by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep cutting my fingers on my 2D smartphone. And it sucks when I lay it down on a flat surface.

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    1. Re:Been wanting one for a long time. by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 2

      Slide it of the edge of the table, much easier to pick up that way.

  5. Already by radarskiy · · Score: 5, Funny

    An unspecified feature for an unannounced product, but we already know exactly what's wrong with it and why it will fail.

  6. It has not even been announced? by brunes69 · · Score: 2
    Maybe you should reserve judgement until the product has actually been announced so that you know precisely what capabilities it has?

    Because Slashdot has such a great history of predicting product success.

  7. My phone is already 3D by Jethro · · Score: 2

    Hell if you want to impress me, make a 2D phone. That'd be pretty cool unless you drop it on it's side and chop off your foot.

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  8. Been there. Done that. by DaveAtFraud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My old phone is an LG Thrill. Geat phone when it was released. Had a 3D camera so you could take 3D pictures. Reasonable 3D rendering ON THE PHONE. That's the problem. You could take 3D pictures but only people with another LG Thrill could view them in 3D. You couldn't even share just one of the two images from the stereoscopic image since neither image was actually "correct" when viewed alone. You had to view the 3D images on an LG Thrill. Dumb.

    Oh yeah. It also had the ability to play 3D games. I don't play games so that was another useless feature. Also, I'm sorry but the idea behind 3D movies, games, what have you is to make the experience "immersive". It's really hard to feel immersed when you have this little teeny, tiny smartphone screen. Lifesized 3D on a wall sized 4K screen is immersive.

    Cheers,
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  9. Re:What? by drkim · · Score: 2

    You use your phone to make calls? When were you born grampa, the 20th century?

    That does it. I'm slamming down the receiver on you.