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Amazon, as per The Verge, has also a software update that brought Alexa to newer Fire tablets in late October, although it’s not yet clear if interacting with Alexa on this new speaker will work in a similar fashion or not.

The touchscreen on the proposed device will be seven inches and will make it easier for users to access information like weather reports, calendars and news. Expedia has recently announced an fantastic update that works well for all Alexa-enabled devices.

So it is with Amazon Alexa, a voice-activated personal assistant, and its Amazon Echo and Echo Dot devices. And as stated above, the users can now pin photos and texts on the speaker. Can Amazon offer a rich enough experience to sway you from other Android tablets or home speakers? Along with the touchscreen, that will enable Amazon to attach a higher price tag to the device compared with its existing Alexa devices, although an exact price has not yet revealed. However, the report doesn’t say anything about the Amazon Echo Dot, the smaller version of the device.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has always been applauded for being daring enough in trying out different products. Approximately 2 million of the estimated 5.1 million devices sold in the first nine months of 2016 alone, with awareness of the device on the rise.

The new premium speaker from Amazon will introduce a new mode of interaction apart from the voice controlled interaction that was the sole mode of communication with the former Echo speakers.

A visual option also would help Amazon link Alexa devices to the music store, the retail website and Amazon Fire TV, he added.

The Amazon Echo is a 9 inch speaker with an all-black finish and a tube-like design. By providing an enterprise-level service that can easily plug into Facebook or other consumer platforms, Amazon is better positioned to secure an early (and potentially lucrative) spot powering businesses’ bots as companies look to take advantage of chat-based applications.

Amazon is set to launch a whole new home device. The move to make Amazon Echo a touchscreen device is expected to make it independent of the smartphone and an ecosystem under Amazon will be created for that.