Want an Amazon Echo device with a screen, but don’t want to spend $230 on an Echo Show? The Echo Spot is a smaller, cheaper model. It goes up for pre-order today for $130 and ships in December. It kind of reminds me of the ill-fated Chumby, but Amazon is positioning it as more of […]
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$35 Amazon Echo Connect turns an Echo into a home phone
Amazon’s Echo speakers already let you make Echo-to-Echo calls for free. Soon they’ll also let you make voice-over-the-internet calls to landlines in the US, UK, and Germany for free. But if you want to go one step further, Amazon has developed a new $35 gadget called the Echo Connect. It’s up for pre-order now and […]
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Amazon 2nd-gen Echo speaker launches today for $99
The Amazon Echo was the first voice-activated speaker to ship with support for Amazon’s Alexa voice service. But since the original Echo launched in 2014, Amazon has introduced two generations of Echo Dot speakers, the Amazon Tap portable speaker, Alexa support for third-party hardware and odd new devices like the Echo Show and Echo Look. […]
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Now you can control a Fire TV with an Echo (or soon, anyway)
Amazon’s Echo device may have launched a few years before any real competitors hit the market. But up until now there’s been one nifty feature that Google Home had that Amazon’s devices did not: if you have a Chromecast-enabled TV you can control it with your voice by talking to a Google Home. Now Amazon […]
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Amazon Dash Wand can’t play music… but it lets you use Alexa for more than shopping
Amazon’s new Dash Wand is a $20 device that runs on two AA batteries, lets you scan barcodes of products around your house to order refills from Amazon, and also lets you shop with your voice thanks to integration with Amazon’s Alexa Voice service. When Amazon announced the new Dash Wand last week, I noted […]
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Calling & Messaging coming soon to all Amazon Echo devices (and the Alexa app)
Like the idea of using an Amazon Echo to make calls to friends and family members, but don’t want to spend $230 to put a touchscreen and camera in your house? The new Alexa calling & messaging feature unveiled with the Amazon Echo Show today is also coming soon to other Echo devices, as well […]
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Amazon Echo Show’s coolest features are also its creepiest
The new Amazon Echo Show is basically an Echo with a display… and a camera. The display lets you do things like watch videos or see news, stock price, traffic, or weather updates, among other things. But it’s the camera which really makes the $230 Echo Show different from most of Amazon’s previous devices. Because now in […]
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Amazon Echo Show with touch display launches for $230 (pre-order now, ships in June)
As expected, Amazon is adding a new Echo device to its line of products featuring the Alexa voice service. The Amazon Echo Show can do everything the company’s other smart speakers can… but it also has a 7 inch touchscreen display and a camera, which allow it to do even more. For example, you can […]
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WSJ: Amazon’s touchscreen Echo could launch May 9th
Amazon’s next Echo smart speaker is coming soon, and we’re pretty sure it’s going to be a device with a 7 inch touchscreen display. Now the Wall Street Journal has a few more details, including a possible date for an official announcement: tomorrow. Update: AFTV News reports that the new model is called the Amazon […]
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Lenovo Smart Assistant is an Amazon Echo clone… complete with Alexa voice assistant
Amazon’s Echo is a $180 wireless speaker that responds to voice commands and questions, and which has speakers that can pick up your voice from across the room. But Echo isn’t the only game in town anymore. Google launched its own solution called Google Home last year, except that model uses Google Assistant instead of […]
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Bloomberg: Apple has a Siri-based Amazon Echo competitor too
Earlier this year Google announced plans to launch an internet-connected speaker that would sit in your home, play music on command, and respond to questions or requests that you voice. It’s called Google Home, and if it sounds familiar, that’s because it’s basically the company’s answer to an existing product: the Amazon Echo. But Google […]
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Amazon to launch a $50 Echo Dot speaker with Alexa (Updated)
It’s been about half a year since Amazon expanded its Echo line of connected speakers with the introduction of a $90 Amazon Echo Dot and $130 Amazon Tap. Now it looks like there may be an even cheaper option on the way: Amazon tweeted last night about an “all-new Echo Dot” priced at $49.99. The […]