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CNET Update - Amazon's 'secret' stirs buzz about phone

2013-04-02
let's see how good Amazon is at keeping a secret I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update amazon has a secret project and it's got people wondering if it's an Amazon phone that's because a former manager for Windows Phones is now working at Amazon his name is Charlie Kindel and he wrote some cryptic descriptions on his LinkedIn page like how he's working on a secret project and it's something wonderful he also wrote he's building a new team for a totally new area for Amazon and he's hiring cloud and mobile developers we've heard rumors about Amazon tinkering with phones for some time now and this seems like another clue that it could be happening not to mention how poetic would it be that the company behind the Kindle hired someone named Kindle to make a new Kindle device some exciting news in the world of syncing your files Amazon Cloud Drive updated so now when you upload a file you can access it off other devices when signing into a drive account that means it's more like Google Drive or Dropbox and speaking to Dropbox yahoo mail users can now access dropbox accounts from the email inbox that means you can attach a file from dropbox to a message or save attachments into dropbox look at yahoo getting all sappy for those looking for a new top-notch android phone a teensy and sprint announced the HTC One will be available in stores on April nineteenth starting at two hundred dollars with a two-year contract but eager fans can pre-order on Thursday at AT&T and on Friday at Sprint t-mobile will also be selling this all aluminum-bodied phone and not to mention the HTC One is 50 bucks cheaper than the new Samsung Galaxy s4 so that might influence some shoppers to go with HTC / samsung AT&T said it plans to offer HD voice this year HD voice enhances call clarity and reduces background noise verizon doesn't have it yet t-mobile said its iPhone 5 will support HD Voice keep your eye on a couple apps today for starters the town video a messaging app upgraded to let users start and stop a recording several times toute lets users send a 15-second video and you can think of it like a Twitter for video tot is used by celebrities and television shows to reach out to fans the start and stop feature is similar to the vine app but these videos don't loop if you want to try out tap you can find me there at Bridget Carey and you can message me your video creations playboy just release an app on iTunes that has no nudity that's because apples content standards don't approve of nudity finally an app for people who subscribe to playboy for the articles that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update and you can follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey
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