Amazon presents the new Echo family. Here are the 4 devices including Echo Dot with display
Amazon does not stop but updates its Echo family by presenting even 4 new products even more devoted to entertainment and home automation. Echo, Echo Flex, Echo Dot (with display for the clock) and the prestigious Echo Studio. Let’s see all the news together.
Amazon unstoppable with its Alexa but above all with its devices for entertainment at home and beyond. The company decides to renew the Echo line and to do so now offers users 4 new products capable of raising the qualitative bar that users will be able to appreciate immediately.
Here, directly from the press conference in Seattle, Amazon presents the new Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Flex and Echo Studio. Four new products for everyday use in every room of your home but also in every place.
Amazon Echo and Echo Dot
Let’s start with the most loved by users, that is the new Amazon Echo and Echo Dot that see an aesthetic change but also and above all hardware with interesting news for Alexa that will also concern past generations.
The two new Echos are proposed to users with a new look as Jeff Bezos’s company decides to cover the devices with a new fabric by choosing from the color from blue-gray to anthracite, passing again through the melange gray to the light gray.
Echo this time has the same audio technology as its big brother Echo Plus and sees the presence of a 7.6 cm woofer also capable of increasing the volume of the device with even more powerful bass and medium and sharper highs.
Echo Dot renews itself more and more allowing the users to see the time on its surface. Very nice indeed the effect that Amazon has decided to give to this Echo Dot thanks to the introduction of a simple but bright LED display that will allow to use it on the bedside table or on a shelf. The LED display ensures automatic brightness adjustment thanks to the sensors present and to the light present in the room.
With the new Echo Dot, you will have the chance to see the time easily, especially in the dark or even the outside temperature, also setting an alarm clock or a timer for pasta always thanks to the interaction with Alexa. Moreover, by touching the upper part of Echo Dot you can easily postpone the alarm.
- The new generation Amazon Echo will be on sale at a price of $99.99, which can be pre-ordered today and then shipped by the end of the year.
- Amazon Echo Dot with LED display will be on sale at a price of $59.99, this too in pre-order from today and shipping by the end of the year.
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Amazon Echo Flex
That’s not all because Amazon decides to present a small device with common features to the Echo line. Let’s talk about the new Amazon Echo Flex, a really convenient product that will allow you to put Alexa in every room of the house without having to spend a fortune and above all without the worry of cables. Yes, because the new Echo Flex is a small device capable of connecting directly to the standard electrical outlet, making the home automation room.
In this case, it will be possible to interact as always with Flex through the Alexa assistant, and it will be possible with it to control every single intelligent compatible home device.
Echo Flex also offers an integrated USB port which also guarantees the recharging of an external device such as a telephone or even another terminal. Very small in its size with the possibility of easily integrating in any room of the house or even in the garage.
Amazon Echo Flex will arrive on the market at a price of $24.99 and will be preordable as of today shipping by the end of the year.
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Amazon Echo Studio
Last but most important product that Amazon decides to announce today and bring into the homes of users. Let’s talk about Amazon Echo Studio, which is a device capable of raising the listening of music to a greater level making it immersive. Echo Studio is a small but ” huge ” product made up of 5 integrated directional speakers and specially designed to be able to create a superior quality sound.
Echo Studio has a 13.3 cm woofer with 330W of maximum power that will be distributed with deep and rich bass thanks to the opening in the lower part of the device designed so precisely to maximize the flow of air and the bass output from a woofer. There is also a 2.5 cm tweeter as well as 3 different 5 cm midrange speakers that will offer clear mid-range frequencies and high dynamic frequencies.
On a technical level, we have a 24-bit DAC in addition to a 100Hz bandwidth power amplifier which will allow high resolution music reproduction and above all without any dispersion. Moreover, the algorithm created by Amazon guarantees in a completely automatic way to detect the acoustics of the environment in which Echo Studio is positioned and optimize the audio reproduction in order to offer an optimal sound.
In addition to all this, Echo Studio is also the first intelligent speaker capable of offering an audio experience in Dolby Atmos and with Sony 360 Reality Audio.
To underline the possibility of combining one or two additional Echo Studio devices with Fire TV devices for audio reproduction with multichannel sound and support for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Audio 5.1 formats and stereo audio. Echo Studio owns the Zigbee hub which guarantees control of other compatible smart home devices.
Amazon Echo Studio will be available at a price of $199.99 and will already be pre-ordered from today while shipping will take place by the end of the year.
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Alexa evolves
Amazon decides to also update Alexa and make her ” talk ” better and more. Here in addition to a new line of Echo devices, the company today announced some new Alexa features, which make it even smarter, simplifying the life of customers and providing them with an even simpler management of their devices.
New and very interesting now is the possibility for users to be able to ask Alexa to speak more slowly or faster, depending on their preferences. If Alexa is asked for information on the weather, the latest news, a sports update, an upcoming event on the calendar, a definition and more, what can be done is to choose between seven different speeds: the standard speed of the voice of Alexa, four faster and two slower modes.
Just say, ” Alexa, speak slower ” or ” Alexa, speak faster ” to adjust the rhythm of Alexa’s voice. This new feature will be available on any Alexa enabled device. To reset the rhythm of Alexa’s voice, it will suffice to say: ” Alexa, speak at normal speed. ”
Not only because the days when Alexa was answering questions with a volume sometimes high because they had previously been left are finally over. Annoying in the event of a question during the early morning while someone at home still sleeps. Well now, Alexa also has the ” whisper ” feature that will allow Alexa to whisper, which in turn will whisper the answer.
Alexa will soon offer two additional features, to provide users with greater transparency on the answers they will receive.
For example: if users are curious about what Alexa heard when asked about the news or playing a specific song, just ask: ” Alexa, tell me what you heard ” and Alexa will read your most-recent voice request.
You can also ask: ” Alexa, why did you do this? ” and Alexa will provide a brief explanation of her response to your last voice request. This function will be active by the end of the year.
Finally, Amazon reiterates the fact that Alexa and Echo devices are built with multiple levels of privacy protection. Since the beginning of this year, Amazon has introduced a feature that allows customers to cancel what they said, asking, ” Alexa, erase everything I said today ” or ” Alexa, erase what I just said “.
Today Alexa takes another step forward, through self-cancellation. Available by the end of the year, this new feature will allow users to be able to choose to have voice recordings and text transcriptions older than three or 18 months automatically deleted on an ongoing basis. This function will be added to the already present possibility of accessing and deleting requests individually or all at once.
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