Amazon Adds an Alexa Photo Frame and a Bedside Clock to Its Echo Family
Source: Wired ·
The new Echo Studio also gets a camera, and the Echo Show 16 debuts an AI-generated Alexa interface.
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Panos Panay, Amazon's senior vice president of Devices and Alexa, says a couple hundred million people now use Alexa+ , the revamped version of the decade-old voice assistant, on its Echo devices . He says people talk to Alexa+ two to three times more than before its AI glow-up , cook with it five times more, listen to music three times more, and create routines twice as much. To keep that momentum going, Amazon has new Echo products to deliver a richer Alexa+ experience, including minor refreshes on existing hardware and entirely new categories. Announced Wednesday and available for purchase now, they include the Echo Dot ($100) , Echo Studio With Home Camera ($250) , Echo Show 16 ($500) , Echo Time ($200) , and the first Alexa Photo Frame ($200) . “I don't think anyone's really doing AI at all in the home, and if they are, they aren't doing it well,” Panay says at an intimate media-only event in New York City. As people have “deeper” conversations with Alexa+, Panay says devices…