Summary
Amazon is giving its premium smart speaker a camera. The new Echo Studio with Home Camera, announced today as part of Amazon’s big blast of announcements, has a built-in camera for monitoring a room while you’re away, showing things to Alexa, and, soon, to use with video calls on Fire TV devices. It’s an iteration on the revised Echo Studio announced last year, which had a brand-new design.
Amazon’s new Echo Studio speaker has a camera
Amazon is updating its premium smart speaker and adding a smart home hub to the Echo Dot.
Amazon is updating its premium smart speaker and adding a smart home hub to the Echo Dot.
The Echo Studio with Home Camera also offers some audio updates. Amazon says a new feature called “Advanced Room Adaptation” will continuously tune sound to the space that the speaker is in. There’s also an “Adaptive Volume” feature that raises or lowers volume depending on where you are in a room so that “your music or audiobook maintains the same volume as you move about.”
The new Echo Studio with Home Camera will cost 219.99 price.
Amazon is also updating the Echo Dot, and the new version is powered by Amazon’s custom-designed AZ3 chip and has a fourth microphone to improve your conversations with Alexa. The Dot also now has a built-in smart home hub, supporting Zigbee, Matter, and Thread, and has a built-in Eero Wi-Fi extender that Amazon says can add up to 1,000 square feet of coverage.
The updated Echo Dot is available starting today for $99.99 in graphite, glacier white, agave green, and coral pink.
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