Amazon has been wonderfully successful with it's kindle e-reader, offering a light weight reader at an affordable price. But the pizazz of ipad 2 and dozens of Android-based tablets that are slowly making their way off of conveyor belts and onto store shelves is rekindling a number of unanswered questions about the next generation of Amazon's e-reader.
First and foremost, will Amazon release a color kindle? If the decides to go down the color rabbit hole what OS will it choose? And finally will it still be primarily a e-reader, or will a color kindle compete with other tablets on market by offering it with e-mail , more impressive apps and videos.
Although Jeff Bezos, Amazon chief Executive, he said in the past that the color kindle is "multiple years" away, new job listing on 126 web site, the division of Amazon that makes the kindle, show that company is building up it's team of Android developers, which might involve developing softwares for color screens.
At least five new jobs were added in the last week alone seeking developers with Android programming experience.
Now this could simply mean that Amazon is hiring engineers to work on new software to work on other Android devices. But it could also pave the way for a kindle that runs Android, which would in turn be color device. The current kindle runs the Linux OS.
It's up for debate that Android kindle is good for Amazon , or better for Google with tablets becoming a more competition over no.of apps available for the platform, Amazon would have lot of catching up to do if the company decide to introduce entirely new tablet OS.
What do you think? Should Amazon join the force with Google and develop an Android kindle, or should the company stick to it's own platform?
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