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Tough to see much, but you do see a shadow of her hand and the proportions indicate to me a tablet-sized device not a phone.

Remember their free-publicity drones segment on 60 minutes that made Amazon Prime go apeshit right before Black Friday? They've got a very clever marketing department.

Furthermore, this is exactly the kind of thing that would

(a) Drive traffic that otherwise wouldn't care to a promo for a video about another goddamn smartphone

(b) Convince whoever watches it, even if purely for entertainment value, that this is a totally different phone and worth paying attention to (like the opposite of when I keep ignoring Samsung or whoever's "THE NEXT BIG THING" every two months...yeah, whatever, the screen is a different size or something)

If they just announced "we're making a smartphone guys - here's a video!" it wouldn't be nearly as huge. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets on the front page of reddit purely because it's hilarious when you misinterpret it.

Hell, worked on me.

Well, 7 years ago I didn't know anyone who was asking to eliminate physical keyboards from phones.

I'm less skeptical of the merit of the idea (whatever exactly it turns out to be), than I am of Amazon's first generation implementation (based on owning 1st gen versions of Kindle eReader and Kindle Fire).

Tilting the phone to see 'under' the current foreground might be a way to show next-messages, pending-notifications, etc.

Add a backside display, and perhaps you'd flip the phone for 'details' - and the eye-tracking ensures that usually, only one side is powered at a time.

Or what if each side of a telepresence-connection is being live-mapped with technology like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghgbycqb92c

Then, even without a head-worn VR display, your handheld phone/tablet can serve as a roaming-camera into the remote space.

Yes, the head movement in the Amazon video makes it look like head tracking/perspective changes built in to the device. But what for?

I wonder how the battery life of this will be like.

Those people are just watching some wild footage of it on some tablet, the teaser is there to just throw people off the scent, gyroscopes etc: must be the drone.

Should I place a bet on that or would I be best to go with the 3d eye-tracking kindle-phone?

http://i.imgur.com/b1edNBJ.png

She's clearly using something that looks like a phone.

Sources: http://bgr.com/2014/04/22/amazon-smartphone-specs-details-ki... http://bgr.com/2014/05/01/amazon-smartphone-photos-kindle-ph...