Apple recently launched new HomePod mini speakers and its HomeView smart display, and today it’s Amazon’s turn with five new Alexa devices.
This includes a new Echo speaker with visual intelligence and an Echo Show with a larger 16-inch display and a nanomatte option …
Echo Dot
The latest smart device lineup kicks off with a next-generation Echo Dot speaker, which includes a home hub, on-device AI capabilities, and a built-in Wi-Fi extender.
For the first time, it includes a built-in smart home hub, so Alexa connects to thousands of compatible devices such as lights, locks, and thermostats right out of the box—plus a built-in eero Wi-Fi extender adds up to 1,000 square feet of coverage to your existing network. At its core is Amazon’s custom AZ3 silicon, with a new AI Accelerator for on-device AI that sharpens conversational detection and filters out background noise. Music, audiobooks, and podcasts sound great on the new Echo Dot, with crisp vocals and 50% more bass than its predecessor.
The Dot is available today for $99.99, with special Kids editions for $109.99 that include a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+.
Echo Studio with Home Camera
The Echo Studio is a better speaker that now includes HomePod-like room mapping and a camera that allows a live view of your home as well as Alexa-powered visual intelligence features.
Echo Studio with Home Camera takes Amazon’s best-sounding speaker and gives it a richer understanding of the room around it, making Alexa even more useful. The same powerful audio architecture is still at its core—a high-excursion woofer and Dolby Atmos filling the room with immersive spatial sound, now continuously tuned to your space with Advanced Room Adaptation. What’s new is context: with more awareness of its surroundings, Alexa can help in real time—explaining the rules on a board game box you hold up, recognizing a box of cereal to help you reorder it, or letting you check in on the room from the Alexa app while you’re away.
The original Echo Studio without the camera is $219.99, while the new model is available today at $249.99.
Echo Time smart bedside clock
The new Echo Time has a display that gradually brightens to mimic a sunrise as your alarm time approaches, and a sleep sensor provides the option of waking you when you’re in a lighter sleep phase.
Echo Time is purpose-built for the bedside—with a customizable display and camera-free design to make waking up and winding down effortless. Make it yours with hundreds of clock faces to choose from—including everything from analog and modern to playful designs and even your favorite sports teams. Its new sleep sensing technology, powered by Omnisense, can sense when you’re in lighter sleep and wakes you within 10 to 60 minutes of your scheduled alarm, no wearable device required. As your alarm approaches, the display gradually brightens to mimic a natural sunrise and the tone builds gently to help ease you awake.
The standard model is available today for $199.99, with a kids version again at $10 more with a year of Kids+ included.
Alexa Photo Frame
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Don't believe for a second that Photo Frame won't start showing ads in between your family photos within the first few months of owning. I've dumped all Amazon devices with a screen given they just clutter them with ads.
A new photo frame syncs to Amazon Photos to show the latest photos as you take them, with the ability to ask Alexa to find the photos you want to display.
Most of the photos we love never leave our phones. The Alexa Photo Frame changes that—pairing the timeless elegance of a traditional frame with the intelligence of Alexa, so your best memories are always on display. It’s the first photo frame with Alexa built in, and it works effortlessly: connect it to Amazon Photos and your pictures sync automatically, with new ones appearing as they’re taken. Alexa intelligently surfaces the shots worth seeing—the ones where you’re smiling, in the right season—and skips the screenshots and clutter. Just ask to see photos of a favorite person, pet, or trip, or swipe through right on the 10-inch anti-glare touchscreen, where every picture looks crisp and vibrant from any angle.
The Alexa Photo Frame is available today for $199.99 in black or $229 in real birch or walnut.
Echo Show 16
Finally, the tablet-like Echo Show 15 has been upgraded to offer 10% more viewing area on a 16-inch screen in a thinner device with a nanomatte anti-reflective option. Like Apple’s HomeView, there are options for placing on a countertop via an iMac-like stand or mounting on a wall.
The all-new Echo Show 16 is our most advanced display yet, with 20% more power for interactions that feel fast. The 16-inch high-definition screen is nearly 40% thinner with 10% more viewing area, and a new Nanomatte option cuts glare by more than 90% while keeping detail and color razor-sharp. Screen Styles transform it into whatever your home needs most—a family organizer with color-coded calendars, chores, and meal plans; a digital photo frame; or a smart home dashboard with the new Alexa Home Map, showing every light, lock, thermostat, and camera right where it lives in your home. Plus, it has the full Fire TV experience, built in. Echo Show 16 has our best-ever camera on an Echo Show, featuring the widest field of view, auto-framing that keeps everyone in view, and—for the first time—night vision, so you can check in with Live View day or night.
The Echo Show 16 is available for pre-order today at $499.99 or $569.99 with the nanomatte screen. Availability hasn’t yet been confirmed, with the company simply saying that it will begin shipping “later this year.”
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