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"Former Windows Phone executive Charlie Kindel has joined Amazon to work on a mystery project. The move has fuelled rumours that the internet retailer is planning to launch a Kindle-branded smartphone in the near future, reports GeekWire.   Kindel, who served as general manager of developer relations for Microsoft, stated in a recent update to his LinkedIn profile that he is working on &amp;quot;something wonderful&amp;quot; for Amazon. A Kindle smartphone has been strongly rumoured for some time, but the company is yet to officially announce that such a device is in development. It has been speculated that the handset will run the heavily-modified version of the Android operating system found on Kindle tablets, and be sold at between \u00A360 and \u00A3120. Kindel left Microsoft last year to work on independent projects, including the popular business tool BizLogr. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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