You can be forgiven for having forgotten all about Amazon's ill-fated Fire Phone. It released a long time ago and despite an initial flurry of sales, it wasn't all that long after launch that Amazon ...

The Wall Street Journal writes today that Amazon has “curtailed” the development of consumer devices and has decided to “retrench” from the smartphone market instead of hoping that the Fire Phone ...

In June 2014, the original Amazon Fire Phone hit the market with the intention of competing directly with the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy. Amazon went so far as to develop its own mobile operating ...

Amazon has formed a new internal team called ZeroOne, tapping former Microsoft executive and Xbox co-founder J Allard to lead the group in developing what the company describes as “breakthrough” ...

Amazon is reportedly working on a return to the smartphone market with a new AI-focused device codenamed “Transformer,” more than a decade after the failure of the Amazon Fire Phone. The project aims ...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the Goldman Sachs AI Stocks: Top 12 Stocks to Buy. On March 20, 2026, Reuters reported that Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is working on a new smartphone project ...

Project “Transformer” signals Amazon’s ambition to turn the smartphone into a gateway for its full service ecosystem. Deep Alexa integration suggests the phone is being designed as a voice-first ...

In this episode of Version History: Amazon’s big, mostly very bad ideas about phones. In this episode of Version History: Amazon’s big, mostly very bad ideas about phones. is editor-at-large and ...

In 2014, Amazon AMZN.O introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone - overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos - was scrapped in barely over a year, one ...