Amazon faced a great hit on its hardware division due to the commercial failure o Amazon’s Fire Phone. And reports imply that Amazon stop some of its plans.
The online retailer has put aside some of its hardware projects and dismiss the engineers at its Lab126 development center, reports The Wall Street Journal.
It made some exciting products we might never see, such as a smart stylus called Nitro. The device automatically digitizes the users’ handwriting and it has a 14-inch codenamed Cairo and a smart projector called Shimmer.
Although Amazon is cutting down its hardware projects, it is not completely giving up on devices business. The publication’s sources has not much connection to a 3D Kindle tablet as they have entirely different technology to the Fire phone that they are working on.
It is said that Amazon will specialize in connected-home teach with development of a kitchen computer called Kabinet. Kabinet will be used in voice controlled layout.
Fire Phone met poor sales that forced Amazon to cancel $ 170 million worth of unsold stock. However, the company implied it is possible that they will release this device again in the future.
The Wall Street Journal suggested that Amazon did not give up its phone division entirely and this business merely moved to Amazon’s Seattle offices.