Amazon is teasing a June 18 event that might finally include the launch of the company's long-rumored smartphone.
"Join Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos for our launch event," reads a page on Amazon's website. It invites Amazon customers, developers, and journalists to request an invitation to the big reveal, which will happen in Seattle.
An accompanying video (below) features people holding a device that is just off screen, who seem to be blown away by what they are seeing. Many seem to move their bodies with whatever they see on the device, suggesting that it might have some sort of 3D component.
"It moved with me," says a woman in the video.
"It's very real life and incomparable to anything I've ever seen," says another woman, a sentiment echoed by all those featured in the 50-second spot.
As Pocket-Lint tweeted, it certainly looks like a phone.
Hello Amazon phone http://t.co/NougTwD5iZ pic.twitter.com/Jmu2OkqP9n
— Stuart Miles (@stuartmiles) June 4, 2014
Rumors about an Amazon smartphone date back to 2011. Thus far, Amazon has stuck to tablets and e-readers, but time and again, reports about an Amazon phone have cropped up and made headlines.
Things really ramped up in April 2013 when former Windows Phone executive Charlie Kindel was hired by Amazon to work on "something secret," according to Kindel's LinkedIn profile at the time. It now says that he and his team are "building products and services which will delight billions of customers as they buy and sell things in the real world (as opposed to online)."
More recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon would release a phone by June and start shipping it by September.
Amazon's last event was in April and included the launch of the Amazon Fire TV set-top box.
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