Amazon surprised us with its newness at its fall devices and services event Luna Cloud-Gaming Service, With expected updates on its Echo, Fire TV and Ring product lineup. This event helps to create the buzz of Amazon as we roll through the holiday shopping season, for the first time, Prime Day. (Annual sales usually take place in July, but this year it is set to launch on October 13th.) That means Alexa will be everywhere – both indoors and outdoors – Privacy Concerns, they were big storylines in 2019 for both Ring and Alexa. In today’s living home, where millions of people have been lurking for a long time, the connected home ideas that Amazon has been creating for years are more relevant than ever.
The company’s Echo and Fire TV products will be the first to earn durable badges, and it is working on reducing power consumption on devices with the new low power mode and Energy Dashboard integrated with Alexa. Amazon has promised to create solar and wind farms to generate energy that is compatible with the consumption of all its devices.
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The company has introduced the cloud-gaming service on top of Amazon web services running on PCs, Fire TVs and even iOS. There is a Luna Plus game channel with curated games, and Amazon publisher Ubisoft has some of them available for Day 1’s.
It has a custom $ 50 controller that connects directly to the cloud rather than the local device.
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This is a custom controller that connects directly to the cloud, and Amazon claims that it reduces the roundtrip delay by 17 milliseconds to 30 ms, compared to a controller connected to a PC, Mac or Fire TV via Bluetooth.
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Redesigned with a new spherical shape and adjustable to the acoustics of the room, the fourth-gen Echo incorporates the features of the previously Echo Plus. It is a bridge to Amazon’s pedestrian network and also has neural network technology to speed up Alexa.
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It gets the same redesign of the Spherical Echo, but now has a stylish fabric cover and better speaker.
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Spherical in shape with some kid-friendly features, the Kids version also includes voice profiles for kids and Sidekick, which allows them to read Alexa.
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It now has zigzag and pavement centers, and is quiet when it is highlighted in your direction. For privacy, there is a built-in camera shutter, and all Echo devices will have the command to review privacy settings and “delete everything I said”. It also supports Hulu, Netflix and Prime video.
read more: Amazon Announces Echo Show 10
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The Pro 6 is basically similar to the Euro 6, but is designed to handle higher bandwidth – up to gigabits, up to 500 Mbps – as opposed to connections.
Ring car products: $ 60- $ 200
Three new car centered ring products
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Ring’s $ 200 Ring Car Game helps users document documented stops, collisions and other road events.
Introduced with Tesla, the Connect 200 Connect uses a vehicle’s built-in exterior cameras to capture video of anything that happens to the car while driving or stopping.
Finally, the Ring’s Car 60 car alarm is inserted into your car’s inward detection port and uses sound and acceleration sensors to monitor the vehicle for bumps, breaks, shoulders or other events.
There are no product pages on Amazon yet, but we will add them here when they arrive.
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Correction, Sept., 24: The maximum resolution of the Fire TV Stick is 1080p, not 4K in the previous version of this story.