Amazon wants to replace your alarm clock with the all-new Echo Spot
Amazon (AMZN) wants to take your over bedside table by replacing your old-school alarm clock.
The Seattle-based tech giant announced the all-new Echo Spot at a company event on Wednesday. Available for pre-order Wednesday and shipping this December, the $129 Echo Spot is a nearly 4-inch globe-shaped device with a 2.5-inch color screen that shows a clock by default. It also sports a front-facing camera for video calls.
The Echo Spot essentially does everything the Echo Show and Echo speaker do, including recognizing voice commands to give you the news, play music, hail you an Uber, even play video, albeit in a much smaller and — dare I say it — more attractive package.
The Echo Spot also sports Bluetooth connectivity in case you want to sync up third-party devices like wireless headphones, as well as Amazon’s highly touted, new second-generation far-field technology with noise canceling ability so the device can better, more accurately recognize your voice from farther away.
Amazon’s Echo Spot joins a slew of other product announcements the company unleashed don Wednesday, including a new, cheaper Echo speaker for just $99.
For Amazon, the Echo Spot is another play for the tech giant to occupy yet another place in your home — this time in your bedroom. The company already has other hardware devices like the Fire TV, intended for your living room, and Dash Buttons — a small device you can program to reorder goods with just a button button press — which you can pepper throughout the house.
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JP Mangalindan is a senior correspondent for Yahoo Finance covering the intersection of tech and business. Email story tips and musings to jpm@oath.com. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook.
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