Amazon and HTC working together to develop smartphone. A bit like Google and LG to manufacture Nexus.

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Amazon is becoming more and more like a major world technology. Following his line of tablet Kindle, the online retailer will work with HTC to develop smartphones in the partnership and finally attempt to compete with Google and Apple in this segment indicates Financial Times .

This is certainly two years that we are talking about the arrival of Amazon in the smartphone market, but according to the financial newspaper, it could be a first terminal to be launched in 2014. Anyway, used to cover their tracks, Amazon said it was a few months does not intend to launch a smartphone this year as rumored not only a terminal would be launched before the end of the year but that it would be offered for free.

Working with HTC, Amazon adopted the same strategy as Google with its Nexus models and its partnership with LG to manufacture the Nexus 4 and future Nexus 5. HTC, it would be an opportunity to return to its origins, when the company manufactured for Palm devices. It is not also the first time that HTC is working in partnership with another company this year as part of the design of a smartphone. The Taiwanese company has partnered with Facebook to make the HTC First, also known as the Facebook Phone. A smartphone which was a real flop whose units have been removed from stores in the U.S. and Europe following the poor performance of sales results. However, analysts see this partnership with Amazon a good eye.