Overview
- Amazon unveiled five new Echo products on Wednesday, Oct. 28, and put the Echo Dot, Echo Studio with Home Camera, Echo Time, and Alexa Photo Frame on sale while opening preorders for the Echo Show 16.
- The redesigned Echo Show 16 is a 16‑inch full‑HD smart display with Fire TV built in, a 13MP camera with auto‑framing and night vision, a Nanomatte option, and will ship in December with preorder pricing available.
- The next‑generation Echo Dot adds a built‑in smart‑home hub (Zigbee/Matter/Thread), an eero Wi‑Fi extender, and Amazon’s AZ3 chip for on‑device AI, turning the Dot into a local controller and Thread border router.
- Echo Time brings Omnisense sleep sensing to the bedside to wake users during lighter sleep without a wearable, the Echo Studio gains a front camera for object recognition and Live View, and all cameras include indicators and manual disable controls.
- Amazon is shipping the devices with an updated Alexa+ that saves interactions as visual Cards and offers deeper reasoning, but several advanced features are tied to Alexa+ (included with Prime), raising trade‑offs over access, data and in‑home sensing.