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Amazon presents Echo Show 15, almost a TV

2021-10-03T02:15:35.055Z


This new equipment is the link between a connected speaker and a TV screen Amazon is further expanding the range of its connected products and bustling services. The group wants to establish itself in the connected home, with an offer geared towards the family. Here's what to take away from the September 28 announcements. Read alsoAmazon opens its largest French warehouse in Metz Echo Show 15 The “family hub” is how Amazon defines its new device, the Echo Show 15, hal


Amazon is further expanding the range of its connected products and bustling services.

The group wants to establish itself in the connected home, with an offer geared towards the family.

Here's what to take away from the September 28 announcements.

Read alsoAmazon opens its largest French warehouse in Metz

Echo Show 15

The “family hub” is how Amazon defines its new device, the Echo Show 15, halfway between the television and the connected speaker with a 15-inch (38 cm) screen. It is a little more than a connected television, but without a TNT tuner. The first feature highlighted is the family calendar, with everyone's schedule and the possibility of leaving little notes. Logically, Amazon wants to make this equipment the connected home control hub, to control connected lighting, heating, etc. But also to watch movies or series on Amazon Prime or Netflix! Made so that it can be hung on a wall, like Samsung's Frame TV before it, the Echo Show 15 can transform into a frame, but essentially for displaying photos.All for $ 249.99.

Read alsoWith Echo Studio, Amazon wants to democratize music in 3D audio: our first impressions

Slightly worrying, Amazon, which nevertheless puts the respect for private life forward, reveals Alexa's new ability to learn to recognize the noises of the house: to distinguish the baby's crying from the snoring of mister (sic), or even, recognize the beep emitted by an improperly closed refrigerator or a broken glass.

It's up to everyone to choose.

Amazon glow

This new device looks like a big phone, equipped with a screen, a speaker ... and capable of projecting images on the ground. But why is that? To allow children to play remotely with their grandparents. A pure product of confinement with families who have reinvented long-distance relationships! It is therefore a kind of big videophone, mixing the virtual and the physical, with the possibility of scanning objects, for example, to make a puzzle, read a story or play cards, without being in the same places. Contacts accessible from Amazon Glow are limited: it's up to parents to define them. The microphone and the camera can be deactivated with a simple gesture. Glow will be sold for 249 euros and Amazon is calling on developers to come and expand its range of compatible games.What he started to do with Mattel and Disney.

Astro

It doesn't look like anything (and that's not a compliment) or maybe Wall-e (Pixar's little planet-cleaning robot) swallowed a touch pad.

Astro is a small companion robot, fifty centimeters high, which moves noiselessly with its two large wheels, and with a periscope to see what is happening a little higher.

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It's a little more than Alexa on wheels, it's a device capable of moving independently and avoiding obstacles.

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A real technological challenge, to avoid furniture, pets or people on the move.

For the moment, this funny machine is available for pre-order, at $ 999 without the delivery date being known yet.

Amazon in turn tackles the challenge of the companion robot, confirming a trend: it will not be humanoid, at least not right away.

Isaac Asimov will have to wait a little longer.

Astro "patrols" the Amazon house

A new partnership with Disney

A new assistant arrives, "Hey Disney", for "better interaction with Disney through Alexa".

The idea is to make it easier for consumers to find Disney content, such as jokes, sounds, etc. Disney is going to deploy Echo speakers in all hotel rooms in its theme parks.

Amazon kids +

The service intended for children is enriched with new services, such as DoReMi, SuperSpyRyan, MonkieKids .... The group has not yet specified whether these services would be available in French.

Hello View

The new connected bracelet for sportsmen Hello View, will be marketed "for the end of year celebrations" at 79.99 euros.

Above all, Amazon is adding an impressive array of services to it, from training programs to a nutritional program.

Logically, the e-commerce giant is eyeing the contents of its customers' refrigerators, and the means to fill them by better anticipating their nutritional needs.

It can save time ... or scare the idea of ​​giving so much of your private life to one company.

Amazon smart thermostat

Amazon launches its smart thermostat.

Marketed for $ 59.99, and which responds to voice, thanks to the group's voice assistant, Alexa.

The idea is to reduce the energy bill of housing by optimizing the heating periods.

The group is therefore adding a new device to an already long list of products.

Amazon is proof of its commitment to the climate, with a reaffirmed concern to reduce CO2 emissions linked not only to the manufacture of products and not also to their use.

Always Home Cam

A drone equipped with a camera ... You had to think about it.

With Always Home Cam, developed by its subsidiary Ring, Amazon is taking the connected home one step further.

This time, the surveillance camera is not fixed to a specific place in the house, it steals.

We switch directly to science fiction there.

Beyond this product, Amazon is launching a home monitoring service in the United States.

A means of retaining its paying subscribers and attracting new ones: the more the offer of services widens, the more it becomes difficult to stop a subscription.

The recipe is known to telecom operators.

The difficulty is to offer loyalty-building services.

Source: lefigaro

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