Every year, Amazon holds an event where it announces all their new devices at once. 2020 is no different, but instead of having it in their Seattle headquarters, the company made its announcement in a form of a videoconference.
Among this year’s improved gadgets are Echo, Echo Dot and Echo Dot Clock. The new Echo has a whole new, spherical look. The Echo Dot and Echo Dot Clock will have a round shape as well. They will come in a new fabric finish too, with three different colors (Charcoal, Glacier White, Twilight Blue). It has many of the same smart hub features of the Echo Plus as well as compatibility with Amazon Sidewalk, the company’s own smart home tech. It will cost $100, the same as last year’s Echo.
Amazon has also announced new WiFi 6 Eero routers, the Eero 6 and the Eero Pro 6. The Eero 6 is the slightly domed model while the Eero Pro 6 has the slightly square shape of the original Eero. A single Eero 6 is $130 while an Eero Pro 6 is $230.
Ring has come out with a new Car Alarm which plugs into your vehicle’s OBD port, letting it push alerts to your phone should your car detect a break-in. You can even hit a button on your phone to trigger a siren. Ring is also selling a dash camera. The Car Cam will let you monitor (and watch) for bumps and break-ins, with real-time alerts and footage, which sounds very similar to the Owlcam. It also has Emergency Crash Assist that will call emergency services when it detects an accident. Interestingly, you can also say “Alexa, I’m being pulled over” to instruct the camera to record an interaction. The Ring Car Alarm will cost $60, while the Car Cam and Car Connect (for Tesla vehicles) are both priced at $200.
The new Echo Show 10 now has a “smart follow” camera similar to Facebook’s Portal. It can kind of follow your movements in the room, thanks to a new audio “beamforming” technology as well as computer vision. The Echo Show 10 costs $250 and will be available soon.
The all-new Fire TV Stick has an enhanced processor, HDR compatibility plus Dolby Atmos. It also comes with the Alexa remote. It’ll be out later this year for $40. The Fire TV Stick Lite on the other hand is $29.99.
Amazon has also launched a new gaming streaming service called Luna as a competitor to xCloud and Stadia, and it comes with Twitch integration. It will support Fire TV, PC, Mac and iOS devices at first, with Android coming later. Amazon also built a low-latency Alexa-enabled Luna controller which will be available for $50 during early access. The gamepad will connect directly to the cloud.
Amazon also announced a new Ring camera that can actually fly around your home to offer multiple points of view. In addition to watching over your home, you can also use it to see if you left a window or door open. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to manually control it. Instead, it has to be programmed to fly in preordained flight paths, going from room to room. You’ll be able to view what’s going on via a live feed in the Ring app.
According to Amazon, its blades are shrouded and has collision-avoidance tech so that it can fly around tight spaces. In order to protect your privacy, Amazon says the drone is designed to hum loudly while in flight to let people know it’s filming. The camera is also obscured when docked in the base. It’ll cost $250 when it goes on sale in 2021.
Ring has also introduced a new Mailbox Sensor, which, well, attaches to your mailbox. The Mailbox Sensor will be available to pre-order on October 8th for $30.
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