Amazon is likely to launch its very own smartphone in the coming months. The retail giant is working with Foxconn to develop this device, which will be powered by the latest version of Android along with the Amazon’s shoptimized UI on top of it.

Foxconn workers have expressed concern over reduced overtime

The Fair Labor Association has reached an agreement with Foxconn regarding working hours and pay

ABC Nightline recently got the privilege to visit the Foxconn factory in China where Apple products are manufacture to create a report on the working conditions there. In the recent few weeks, Foxconn has been receiving a lot of bad publicity about poor working conditions for factory workers there.

Apple has opened up supplier factories to third-party environmental inspections

Apple’s partner Foxconn has raised Chinese worker wages

Amazon has given the order to manufacture the rumored Kindle Fire 2 to Foxconn, which also makes the iPad 2. It will begin production in Q1 2012.

Amazon has outsourced the production of the Kindle Fire 2, the 10.1 inch version of the Kindle Fire, to Foxconn, which also makes Apple’s iPads.