Amazon Announces New Echo Devices-Add Alexa to Every Room and Your Car

Amazon Announces New Echo Devices-Add Alexa to Every Room and Your Car

All-new Echo devices make it even easier to add Alexa to more places in your home

Now, you can bring Alexa on the road with Echo Auto

New Echo companion devices let you see timers at a glance with a wall clock, add a subwoofer to your Echo devices, amplify or stream high-fidelity music to your existing home audio system, and add Alexa to your own speaker

New Amazon smart home devices offer more ways to interact with Alexa around your home-whether turning on or off your lights by voice with the Amazon Smart Plug or cooking with the AmazonBasics Microwave

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 20, 2018-- (NASDAQ: AMZN)-Today, Amazon introduced a new line-up of Echo devices, Echo companion devices, and Amazon smart home devices, making it even easier to bring the features and convenience of Alexa to any room and now, to the car.

New Echo devices include:

All-new Echo Dot: The easiest way to bring Alexa into your home, now with a new speaker for louder and crisper sound, an updated fabric design, and still only $49.99

All-new Echo Plus: A simple way to start your smart home with a built-in Zigbee hub, plus an upgraded speaker and a new design, and still only $149.99

All-new Echo Show: An all-new design, upgraded speaker, a stunning 10-inch HD display, and a built-in smart home hub, plus all the glanceable features customers love about Alexa for $229.99. Read the press release: www.amazon.com/pr.

Echo Auto: Bring the power of Alexa to your car, now available by invitation

New Echo companion devices include:

Echo Wall Clock: Connects to your Echo device to visually enhance timers, alarms and reminders for $29.99

Echo Input: Add Alexa to your existing speaker for $34.99

Echo Sub: Add deep, rich bass to music playback on Echo devices for $129.99

Echo Link: Connects to your home stereo system to stream high-fidelity music for $199.99

Echo Link Amp: A 60W, 2-channel built-in amplifier to stream high-fidelity music to active or passive speakers for $299.99

New smart home devices include:

AmazonBasics Microwave: A compact countertop microwave that connects to your Echo device to make cooking easier for $59.99

Amazon Smart Plug: Control compatible lights, fans, coffee makers, and more for $24.99

We want you to have access to Alexa everywhere-in your kitchen, in your living room, in your office, and now in your car or truck, said Tom Taylor, Senior Vice President, Amazon Alexa. Today, we're excited to expand the number of ways that customers can add Alexa to their homes and their vehicles, so they can use Alexa to make their lives more convenient and easy-whether it's asking for the traffic on your drive home, checking your email in the morning, or simply saying Alexa, good night' to turn off your lights and lock your door.

New Echo Devices-Access Alexa Everywhere in Your Home and Your Car

All-New Echo Dot-Now with a New Design and More Powerful Sound-Still Just $49.99

The next-generation Echo Dot (amazon.com/echodot) features a new fabric design and more powerful sound-and it is still the best way to add Alexa to any room. With an all-new curved shape and fabric finish, Echo Dot is available in Charcoal, Heather Gray, and Sandstone, letting customers easily mix and match. The new Echo Dot plays music louder with richer sound, all in a compact design. Put an Echo Dot in every room to ask for information or the weather, play your favorite music in a multi-room music grouping, set timers and alarms, and control compatible smart home devices.

All-New Echo Plus-New Design, Upgraded Sound, Built-In Smart Home Hub and More Ways to Control Your Smart Home-Still Just $149.99

With its built-in Zigbee smart home hub, the all-new Echo Plus (amazon.com/echoplus) makes setting up compatible smart home devices easy. Just say, Alexa, discover my devices, and Echo Plus will automatically discover and setup compatible lights, locks, sensors, plugs, switches, and more without the need for additional hubs or apps. Echo Plus now includes an embedded temperature sensor, so you can set temperature-based routines using other smart home devices. For example, when the living room reaches 80 degrees, Alexa can send a notification to your phone and turn on a connected fan.

With Wi-Fi simple setup, you can automatically connect compatible smart devices to your Wi-Fi network and Alexa in a few easy steps. All you need to do is power on the smart device and it will recognize and connect your device to your Wi-Fi network using a Wi-Fi password that you have saved in your Wi-Fi Locker. Wi-Fi simple setup is available with new Echo devices, the new Amazon Smart Plug, and the AmazonBasics Microwave.

Echo Plus has a larger 3 neodymium woofer and increased back volume so that the bass feels stronger and the mids and highs are clearer. It also features an all-new fabric design and is available in Charcoal, Heather Gray, and Sandstone.

Echo Auto-Available by Invitation for a Special Price of $24.99

Echo Auto (amazon.com/echoauto) is an easy and affordable way to add the power of Alexa to your car or truck. With an eight-microphone array designed for in-car acoustics and speech recognition technology, Echo Auto lets Alexa hear you over music, A/C, and road noise. The device is powered by your cars 12V power outlet or USB port, and connects to your stereo system through a 3.5 mm audio jack or Bluetooth connection. It connects to Alexa through the Alexa app on your smartphone and uses your existing phone plan to access a range of features such as music, navigation, calling, and more.

With Echo Auto in your car or truck, just ask Alexa to hear your morning news, listen to an Audible book on your commute, get the latest traffic updates, and more. You can also set a routine that turns on your lights when y

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