Amazon unveils five new Echo devices and expanded Alexa Plus features
Amazon has replaced its usual autumn hardware showcase with smaller launches spread across October, giving each announcement more attention. At a New York event, it introduced five Echo devices and presented expanded Alexa Plus features, signalling a greater focus on bringing generative AI into the home.
The new products are the Echo Show 16, Echo Time alarm clock, Alexa Photo Frame, Echo Studio with Home Camera and a new Echo Dot. Show devices will gain dedicated home screens, a 3D smart-home map and meal planning; Alexa Plus will support deeper research, with conversations saved as Cards that can be continued on Echo Show devices, the Alexa app or Alexa.com. Amazon also indicated that Ring and “Echo on the Go” announcements are still to come.
In short
- Amazon spread its autumn hardware launches across October.
- Five new Echo devices were shown in New York.
- Alexa Plus adds deeper research and saved conversation Cards.
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Originally published by The Verge as “Inside Amazon’s Echo hardware event”.