Amazon Echo To Get A Makeover?

This would be a significant shift away from the company’s existing cylinder shaped home device that responds mainly through Amazon’s voice-based digital assistant, Alexa and that can be controlled by the users. According to Bloomberg, Amazon might be adding this little perk in their speaker like so as to provide ease of access to a lot of features like checking weather forecasts, calendar appointments, and news.

The e-retailing giant Amazon could be revamping the look of one of their most popular products the amazon echo.

Audio will still be a big focus for the new device, which will reportedly offer higher-quality speakers.

The Echo and its dots are handy, of this we have no doubt. The current version of Amazon Echo costs $180.

The technology behind Google’s digital assistant likely will be used not just in Google Home, McGregor noted, but in every mobile device that uses the Android operating system. Users should still expect a response from the new device with regards to verbal commands and spoken questions. Earlier this year Amazon debuted two new home speakers based on the Echo, the cheaper alternatives Tap and Dot. Also, Amazon Echo supports over 400 publications, while Google Home still has a long way to go before it catches up to its rival smartspeaker device. There are also speculations about Apple working on an Echo-like device that will be powered by Siri.

Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released updated analysis of Amazon Echo from Amazon, Inc.

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Jeff Bezos, Chairman and founder of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post, addresses the Economic Club of New York, at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, October 27, 2016 in New York City. Are they thinking to put it on top and leave the design as it is.

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“I think that the search experience – which is “please book me a hotel in New York, Midtown next week” – I think the search and query experience is much better served through voice”, he said. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.