Amazon is holding an event on the 18th of June with the announcement of its heavily rumored 3D smartphone on the agenda. Yesterday, the company’s teaser video gave us an idea of what to expect from this handset, although nothing was specified. Today, the folks at TechCrunch have managed to uncover exactly how this technology will work. It is said that Amazon has teamed up with Japanese company Omron which has a technology called Okao Vision. This essentially uses face tracking technology to follow users movements and is also capable of judging the user’s ethnicity, gender, age etc.
The Amazon smartphone will reportedly have four motion sensing cameras on the front to deliver rich 3D experience to the users. Its development team is believed to have modified Omron’s Okao software technology so that it could be functional on a standard LCD display.
The smartphone is expected to be running on a forked version of Android, which Amazon has been calling Fire OS since its Fire TV launch. The version of Android is not known at the moment, but that shouldn’t make much of a difference as most of its features will be masked anyways.
This smartphone is expected to feature a 4.7 inch 720p display, a solitary 13-megapixel camera on the back, 2GB of RAM and a quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. There’s only under two weeks left for the official announcement, so we can expect to learn more along the way.
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