Amazon has cut several dozen developers of the failed Fire Phone smartphone and closed a number of projects.
Amazon has announced a downsizing. Dozens of employees working on the Fire Phone smartphone were fired. Moreover, the development of the entire line of Amazon mobile devices has ceased. The development of a 14-inch Project Cairo tablet, a Shimmer projector and a Nitro smart stylus is also interrupted, reports The Verge.
A division called Lab 126 specialized in creating gadgets in the company. The laboratory has been in existence for 11 years and has never been cut. Now it will be reorganized, but it will continue its work.
1 and 26 in the name of the unit symbolize the first and twenty-sixth letters of the Latin alphabet - A and Z. In 2014, the laboratory introduced 10 devices. Among them - the "smart" music column Echo , Android TV set-top box Fire TV , as well as the first Fire Phone smartphone. Two versions of the smartphone with a different amount of memory cost without a contract $ 649 and $ 729, respectively. The price of a smartphone with 32 GB of memory and a two-year contract in September 2014 was reduced from $ 199 to 99 cents. Pessimistic forecasts of analysts about the failure of the gadget were confirmed.
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Earlier, from Lab126, Google went to Chief Engineer John McCormack (Jon McCormack), reminds The Wall Street.
A division called Lab 126 specialized in creating gadgets in the company. The laboratory has been in existence for 11 years and has never been cut. Now it will be reorganized, but it will continue its work.
1 and 26 in the name of the unit symbolize the first and twenty-sixth letters of the Latin alphabet - A and Z. In 2014, the laboratory introduced 10 devices. Among them - the "smart" music column Echo , Android TV set-top box Fire TV , as well as the first Fire Phone smartphone. Two versions of the smartphone with a different amount of memory cost without a contract $ 649 and $ 729, respectively. The price of a smartphone with 32 GB of memory and a two-year contract in September 2014 was reduced from $ 199 to 99 cents. Pessimistic forecasts of analysts about the failure of the gadget were confirmed.
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Earlier, from Lab126, Google went to Chief Engineer John McCormack (Jon McCormack), reminds The Wall Street.
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