Playing with "Fire" in the Smartphone market?

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June 19, 2014

Playing with "Fire" in the Smartphone market?

Amazon has joined the volatile Smartphone market with its 4.7 inch "Fire" Wall Street. Bloomberg Businessweek

Must be nice to be able to see bigger images without straining. Some said Amazon positioned the Fire model as a walking registrar than a real Smartphone. Here is a comparison of the Fire with other models with similar size screen.

Amazon comparing with Apple, Samsung, HTC

What is the Smartphone market like? In one word. Brutal.

The market is huge. But many have gained and lost their glory in a relatively short time. Once Nokia was the leader. Now bought by Microsoft is still struggling to keep its sales from sliding. Nokia Market Share.

RIM's Blackberry lost its leadership as the one-time enterprise/corporation favorite. Now with new leadership it hopes to regain some of its glory. Samsung is going strong with the Android OS fighting with Apple's iPhone all the way. The Taiwan based HTC is struggling to regain its foothold but it may not be easy. HTC

Lenovo, the largest PC maker in the world, is taking a bold step to invest in the Smartphone space. Perhaps the one to watch is the Chinese company called Xiaomi. It is using its low-cost Smartphone to dominate China and soon India. Xiaomi

Xiaomi prepares to enter India

Here is the Smartphone line up today:

1.      Samsung

2.      Apple

3.      LG

4.      Lenovo

5.      HTC

6.      RIM (Blackberry)

As to what the future will hold, we will keep watching. JK