The smartphone market is brutal. It destroys companies that can’t keep up and makes established tech_juggernauts_look like a bumbling startup. It’s harsh, unrelenting and Amazon is getting ready to shoulder its way into the fray. On Wednesday_Amazon is expected to reveal its long-rumored smartphone. Judging from the teaser video Amazon released_with the event’s announcement, a 3D display_is all but a given. Then Jeff Bezos, the company’s CEO, shipped members of the press that are attending the event a book, Mr. Pine’s Purple House._The book is about being different with an emphasis on being purple. Even the note that accompanied the...

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