Amazon Wants to Make a Phone Again? Its First One Was a Fast Fail

Amazon Wants to Make a Phone Again? Its First One Was a Fast Fail

It's been more than 10 years since Amazon stopped selling the Fire Phone. A new report says the company is giving it a second try.

There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone

The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market.

Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop

The new phone is reportedly seen as a potential mobile personalization device that can sync with home voice assistant Alexa and serve as a conduit to Amazon customers throughout the day.

OpenAI's first crack at online shopping stumbled. It's preparing for the next wave

Etsy, Walmart and Shopify were quick to jump into Instant Checkout, but item information was often inaccurate and onboarding merchants was difficult.

Carl Pei Says ‘Apps Are Going to Disappear’ as Smartphones Become More Agentic

Nothing CEO Carl Pei predicted that in the future, apps on smartphones will be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Speaking at South by Southwest (SXSW), the executive suggested that the current app-centric model is “boring” and largely unchanged for 20 years. He highlighted that using a smartphone to complete a task today feels like admin work, where different apps must be manually set to get to the final output.