New BlackBerry App is the Latest in Amazon's Growing Line of Mobile OfferingsSEATTLE, Apr 09, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its latest mobile
offering for customers- "Amazon App for BlackBerry," which is now
available as a free download directly from Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/blackberry_app.
Designed specifically for the BlackBerry, the app offers customers who
use a BlackBerry device with a track ball a quick and simple way to
find, discover, and buy products from Amazon.com and thousands of other
retailers.
"Since launching our popular iPhone shopping app in December, customers
have been asking us to bring a similar experience to the BlackBerry, and
we are thrilled to make it available to customers today," said Sam Hall,
Director of Amazon Mobile. "In addition to their favorite Amazon
shopping features, BlackBerry users can now access the Amazon Remembers
feature for a fun and easy way to build a list of photographs showing
products they want to remember for later, make price comparisons across
multiple merchants, and purchase."
Amazon Remembers helps customers keep track of items they see in their
daily lives and even tries to match photos of products to the same or
similar products available on Amazon.com. Customers simply snap photos
with their BlackBerry and the photos are automatically uploaded to
Amazon.com, which then tries to find products similar to the ones in the
photos. As soon as the customer receives the results, they can then
purchase the item immediately or "remember it" for later in their Amazon
account.
In addition to Amazon Remembers, the Amazon App for BlackBerry offers
customers access to their Amazon.com account and favorite shopping
features wherever they are, such as:
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Purchase using Amazon's 1-Click ordering and Amazon Prime
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Track packages or modify orders using the Your Account feature
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Receive personalized recommendations
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View editorial and customer reviews
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Get the Gold Box Deal of the Day
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Access to their Wish List
The Amazon App for BlackBerry is available on any Blackberry device with
a trackball for free directly from Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/blackberry_app
or downloadable directly from any BlackBerry with trackball at www.amazon.com/bbapp.
For more information, visit www.amazon.com/blackberry_app.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web
Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue
Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS),
Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk,
www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca,
and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments
and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect
Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual
Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc.
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