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Author Topic: I'm excited about Amazon's new phone  (Read 1688 times)

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I'm excited about Amazon's new phone
« on: April 22, 2014, 03:08:39 PM »

...and this cool NEW thing called Optical Character Recognition. 
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-smartphone-features-2014-4

Check it out!

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Re: I'm excited about Amazon's new phone
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2014, 11:29:04 AM »

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-smartphone-prime-data-2014-4

Cheaper data plans! Perhaps they'll make use of technology.
More likely, they see the value in collecting the passive data on thousands of people. This is a wet dream for marketing researchers.
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