By Nick Pino
Update: Amazon Echo is on sale today in the US temporarily. The Alexa-enabled smart home speaker has been a $50 price drop, but that deal expires at midnight.
The Amazon Echo is about to get its biggest upgrade yet – a touch screen and a camera. The new device is called the Amazon Echo Show, and it’s the next evolution for Amazon’s smart speaker.
So what does that mean for the original Echo, the one we reviewed almost two years ago? A lot, actually. As it turns out some of the new functionality coming to the Echo Show will be coming to the original Echo. That includes voice calling and messaging – two features the Echo has desperately needed since its outset.
It seems like only yesterday we had our first conversation with Alexa, a personal assistant built in to the $179 Amazon Echo (£150, around AU$230). The conversation wasn’t very deep, but they got a good laugh asking Alexa stupid questions, having her shuffle music and asking about mundane topics like the weather or the time. The earliest conversations were simple, almost child-like.
As the months went on the conversations got deeper as the team at Amazon added …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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