Amazon Lab126

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Amazon Lab126, Inc.
Company typeSubsidiary
Industry
Founded2004; 22 years ago (2004)
Headquarters1100 Enterprise Way,
Sunnyvale, California 94089[1]
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Number of employees
3,000[3]
ParentAmazon
Websitelab126.com

Amazon Lab126[4] (sometimes known as Lab126) is an American research and development and computer hardware company owned by Amazon.com.[5] It was founded in 2004 by Gregg Zehr,[6] previously Vice President of Hardware Engineering at Palm, and is based in Sunnyvale, California.[7] It is widely known for developing Amazon's Kindle line of e-readers and tablets.[8][9][10]

Name

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Lab126's name derives from the arrow in Amazon's logo, which points from A to Z—the 1st and 26th letters in the English language alphabet.[11][6]

Products

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On November 19, 2007, after three years of research and development by Lab126, the Amazon Kindle e-reader was released. Gregg Zehr had given it the code name 'Fiona' after the character Fiona in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. It was priced at $399 and included free cellular data worldwide.

Newer models of the Kindle continue to be released, with the latest model called the Kindle Oasis in mid-2016.[12]

In 2011, Lab126 released the Kindle Fire tablet; in 2012, they released two new models of the Fire tablet called the Kindle Fire HD.[13] In 2013, it released the Fire HDX, a high-end tablet.[14]

In 2014, Lab126 released the Amazon Fire TV digital media player; in late 2014, they released the smaller Fire TV Stick. Lab126 also released the Fire Phone that was not commercially successful.[15][5]

In 2015, Lab126 released the Amazon Echo, a voice command device.[16]

In 2016, it released the Echo Dot, which is a hockey puck sized version of the Echo; they also released the Amazon Tap, a smaller, portable version of the Echo.[17][18]

In 2021, Lab126 announced Amazon Astro, a brand of domestic robots developed in house.[19][20]

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  12. ^ Amazon's Kindle Oasis is the funkiest e-reader it's ever made The Verge Retrieved April 13, 2016
  13. ^ Amazon preparing 'up to six' new Kindle Fire tablets 23 July 2012
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