Amazon Working on Smartphone with 3D-Display

Amazon has previously said that it is working on a series of new products and services, and now a report has suggested that one of the mystery products could be a high-end smartphone with a 3D display.

Citing sources familiar with the plans, the Wall Street Journal said that by using retina-tracking technology, images on the smartphone would seem to float above the screen like a hologram and appear three-dimensional at all angles.

The company, which already has a range of Android based tablets and its own mobile apps store has been long suspected to be working on its own smartphone, but the specifications were scarce.

Rumours of a TV-box for video streaming have also emerged, and now the WSJ reports that the new hardware is part of a broader foray into developing consumer electronics of their own.

Though Amazon has goals of releasing some of these devices in the coming months, the WSJ sources cautioned that some or all of the devices could be shelved because of performance, financial or other concerns.

3D displays for mobile phones are not a new development though, and Japan's DoCoMo developed a system for showing 3D images on a small screen back in 2006, while LG showed off a functioning smartphone in 2011.