Amazon Hardware Event 2023: Updates on the new Echo Show 8, Alexa, smart glasses and more
Welcome to the company's usual fall gadget deluge.
Amazon just announced a number of new products. As it typically does every September, the company held a device-and-service focused event this morning at its recently opened HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia.
We saw a new Echo Show 8 model, fresh products from Amazon brands like Blink, Eero and Ring, and a lot of talk about AI and shifting paradigms. If you'd like to re-live the event as it happened, you can find our liveblog from the event below. But if you just want to skip straight to the biggest news, here's a list of everything newsworthy from HQ2 today:
News
Amazon's Echo Show 8 offers spatial audio and a dynamic, proximity-based UI
Amazon debuts Eye Gaze accessibility features on the Fire Max 11 tablet
Alexa Emergency Assist can call first responders from your Echo speaker
Blink's new Outdoor 4 camera accessories include battery and range extenders
Ring’s new Stick Up Cam Pro comes with built-in radar detection
Kids will soon be able to have natural conversations with Alexa
Amazon’s new Echo Frames come with longer battery life and better audio
Amazon's Map View puts your smart home devices on a digital floor plan
Amazon's $180 Echo Hub is a smart home control panel for your wall
Everything Amazon announced at its 2023 Devices and Services event
Hands-ons and first impressions
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Amazon's $180 Echo Hub is a smart home control panel for your wall
Don't call it a tablet! Amazon's Echo Hub is an 8-inch display that's intended to be wall-mounted. It's pitched as a new way to control smart home devices, featuring widgets, camera feeds and the all-new Map View.
Amazon's Map View puts your smart home devices on a digital floor plan
Amazon has revealed a Map View for controlling your smart home devices. It's a digital floor plan that allows you to, for instance, tap on lights to switch them on, or select an Echo speaker to change the volume.
While Billy's checking out all the new Echo and Alexa goodness, we'll continue dropping some news stories from today's event that you might be interested in:
Amazon debuts a $120 Bluetooth-enabled Fire TV Soundbar
Amazon has added a brand new soundbar to its Fire line, as well as refreshed streaming sticks.
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And that's it! We're heading to the demo area now. Keep it locked on Engadget for all of the news from today's event. Thanks for joining me!
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He says Amazon is still focused on customers, trying to make their lives better every day.
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We're headed to the demo area soon, where we'll get to see some of the new items. Maybe all of them? Hard to say.
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Dave is back to close out. He's rehashing all of the news, including the improvements to Alexa and all of the new hardware.
Amazon's Eero Max 7 will have 10-gigabit Ethernet speeds
Amazon just announced the Eero Max 7, a WiFi device that combines a router, a range extender and a repeater all for the low low price of... $600.
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Now we're getting a video with all the things an Alexa-run smart home offers. Lots of automation, as you might expect.
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It's coming later this year for $180.
