(Original title: Amazon's New Echo Adds Touch Screen and Video-Conferencing)
Netease Technology News May 10th According to Bloomberg News, Amazon officially launched Echo Show on Tuesday. The new Echo is equipped with a 7-inch touch screen that can be used to display schedules, music lyrics or play videos. In late June, the price of 229 US dollars (about 1600 yuan) is 50 US dollars higher than the current high-end models. Prior to the launch of this new product, Amazon released Echo Look last month, using the camera function to provide dressing instructions. So far, there are 5 products in the Amazon Echo camp including the Echo Show, and all are driven by Alexa digital assistants.
The Echo business is not profitable, but it is just a means to attract consumers to participate in the rapidly growing retail business and subscribe to more lucrative Prime member services. With 5 Echo devices, Amazon has undoubtedly led Google and Apple. Google only released Home two years after Echo was born, and Apple has not yet been able to come up with finished products. Amazon has never disclosed Echo equipment sales, but according to eMarketer research, Echo occupies 70% of the US smart speaker market, and the remaining 30% of the market is mostly occupied by Google.
Amazon demonstrated in the demo how Echo Show displays weather forecasts and news headlines. Amazon said that Echo Show can be used as a monitor to display the baby monitor or cat eye camera. Some apps that have connected to Alexa can display information on the Echo Show, such as Uber's distance from the user or the score of a baseball game. Alexa currently has 12,000 skills. Over time, third-party developers will also bring more and more comprehensive services.
"We are not trying to build a cell phone or tablet, but to extend the features Echo has." Amazon hardware director Dave Limp said that he tested Echo Show at home for about a year.
The Echo Show is the first Echo speaker equipped with a camera. The 5 megapixel camera made Amazon's subsequent video conferencing service possible. Similar to Apple's Facetime, the service allows people to make video calls with Alexa between each other or with the phone. Old Echo devices without a camera allow voice calls over the Internet.
The Echo Show screen is slightly smaller than the iPad mini, which is the same size as the Kindle Fire tablet. The new device has built-in Intel chips, sound and radio (8 microphones) are better than the previous generation. The Echo Show can be connected directly to Wi-Fi without using Alexa's configuration on the phone. The user can enable or disable the camera and microphone with the button. Limp said that even hackers cannot open the camera remotely.
The new Echo plays music from Amazon's own music service Spotify and Pandora, not Apple Music. However, the latter's subscribers can still use Echo to play music through a Bluetooth connection.
Can the new Echo enhance Amazon's pioneering advantages? Photos of Echo Show are both good and bad reviews on Twitter. The $229 pricing is too expensive for many consumers. In a study released on Monday, CIRP estimated that the cheapest Echo Dot (US$50) accounted for more than half of the 10.7 million (estimated) Echo devices sold.
Analyst Guo Mingchi said that Apple may launch a smart speaker for Siri at the developer conference next month. Informed sources said that Apple employees have been testing for months. Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing director, recently spoke about the advantages of having a screen on a voice-activated device, but it is unclear whether Apple's smart speakers will also have a screen. (Sun Wenwen)
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