The whole lot introduced at Amazon’s fall {hardware} occasion

It is not technically Techtober but since we’re someday shy, however we have already had a bunch of fall {hardware} occasions from among the larger firms within the tech area. At this time, it was Amazon’s flip to step as much as the plate. 

Going into its occasion, the corporate teased new Echo audio system and Kindle information. Rumors instructed Amazon was able to ditch its long-standing Android-based OS on Hearth TVs in favor of the Linux-based Vega OS it is already utilizing on the Echo Present 5, Echo Hub models and Echo Spot.

Certainly, Echo, Kindle and Hearth TV are all being featured on the occasion, together with Ring and Blink units. Oh, and many Alexa+ updates, after all.

Amazon doesn’t normally livestream its product occasions and that remained the case right here. Nevertheless, we’ve acquired you lined with all of the information and bulletins with each our liveblog and this right here rundown of all the things Amazon introduced at its fall {hardware} occasion:

Echo audio system

The Echo lineup was past overdue for a refresh — it has been 5 years for the reason that 4th-gen Echo arrived, whereas the latest Echo Studio debuted a few years later. And, with Amazon trying to push Alexa+, it is definitely time for some new fashions.

To that finish, the $100 Echo Dot Max and $220 Echo Studio are up for pre-order and can ship on October 29. No signal of a brand new normal Echo this time!

The Echo Dot Max delivers nearly thrice the bass of the fifth-gen Echo Dot and sound that adapts to your area, Amazon claims. The corporate added that the up to date design integrates the speaker straight into the system’s housing, liberating up additional area for extra bass. In actual fact, the Echo Dot Max has two audio system: a “high-excursion woofer optimized for deep bass and a customized tweeter for crisp excessive notes.”

Amazon has shrunk down the Echo Studio to 60 p.c of the scale of the final model. Even so, it has a “highly effective high-excursion woofer that delivers deep, immersive bass and three optimally positioned full-range drivers to create immersive,” room-filling sound, in response to the corporate. The newest mannequin helps spatial audio and Dolby Atmos.

In case you’re within the US and also you snap up both of the brand new Echo audio system — or the newest Echo Present units — Amazon says you’ll get early entry to Alexa+.

Alexa Dwelling Theater with Echo

Amazon is trying to tackle the likes of Sonos with a house theater characteristic. You’ll be capable to join as many as 5 Echo Studio or Echo Dot Max units to a appropriate Hearth TV stick for encompass sound.

The corporate says that, with the Alexa Dwelling Theater characteristic, Alexa will care for all the things after you plug in your audio system. That features tuning them to your area mechanically. Amazon will promote the Echo audio system in Alexa Dwelling Theater bundles too.

Echo Present

Quelle shock, Amazon has refreshed the Echo Present sensible shows. As with the remainder of its new merchandise, Amazon constructed the Echo Present 8 and Echo Present 11 with Alexa+ in thoughts.

They boast new front-facing stereo audio system and upgraded microphones, all the higher to bolster the chats you might need with Alexa+. The brand new models have improved cameras with 13MP lenses. Alexa will be capable to acknowledge you whenever you method the system and show customized data. It’d present you, for example, an AI-powered abstract of footage out of your Ring units. The Echo Present sensible house hub helps units within the Zigbee, Matter and Thread ecosystems too.

As for the show, each of the brand new Echo Present models have a damaging liquid crystal display screen designed to maximise viewing angles. Amazon additionally mentioned there are new color-coded calendars to assist everybody within the household to remain on prime of their schedules. Alexa will preserve an eye fixed out for scheduling conflicts. Such a intelligent cookie.

The brand new Echo Present 8 prices $180, whereas the Echo Present 11 will run you $220. Pre-orders for the newest Echo Present fashions open right this moment. They’ll ship on November 12.

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft

The Kindle Scribe 2 and Kindle Colorsoft seem to have been smushed collectively, as there’s now a full coloration model of Amazon’s writing pill (which has another upgrades). The corporate is utilizing its customized show tech for the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which has a coloration filter and “mild information” with nitride LEDs. The concept, in response to Amazon, is to spice up coloration with out washing out particulars.

The corporate says it developed a brand new rendering engine for the Kindle Colorsoft too. It claims this helps be certain writing on the system feels fluid, pure and quick. Furthermore, the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is claimed to run for a number of weeks on a single cost. 

You’ll select from 10 pen colours for writing, drawing and annotation. There are 5 highlighter colours as nicely.

The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft might be accessible within the US later this yr, beginning at $630. It is coming to the UK and Germany in early 2026. 

We’ve been capable of check out the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. You may try Engadget managing editor Cherlynn Low’s preliminary hands-on impressions.

Refreshed Kindle Scribe

Amazon is refreshing the common Kindle Scribe too. It has a bigger, 11-inch show to match the proportions of a sheet of paper. It is 5.44mm (0.2 inches) skinny and weighs 400g. Amazon additionally says it is 40 p.c quicker than the earlier mannequin on the subject of web page turns and writing. 

The usual 2025 Kindle Scribe shares a bunch of options with the Colorsoft mannequin. Each boast a entrance mild system with miniature LEDs, a texture-molded glass that is designed to enhance friction for writing and revamped show tech that is mentioned to make it really feel such as you’re writing straight on the web page.

The newest units have a quad-core chip and extra reminiscence than earlier fashions. That helps to energy new AI-driven options. You’ll get an AI-generated abstract of knowledge that you just seek for throughout your notes and the choice to ask follow-up questions. Beginning in early 2026, you’ll be capable to ship notes and different docs out of your Kindle Scribe to Alexa+, and have a dialog with the chatbot about them.

There’s assist for Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, so you possibly can pull in paperwork from there to mark them up. There’s an choice to export annotated PDFs, in addition to to export notes as transformed textual content or an embedded picture to OneNote. 

The house display screen has a brand new Fast Notes perform to assist customers begin jotting down their ideas quicker. You’ll have swift entry to just lately opened or added books and paperwork from there too. 

In the meantime, there is a new pen that attaches to your Kindle Scribe. This refreshed Kindle Scribe will go on sale within the US by the top of the yr, and it begins at $500. A model with no entrance mild might be $430. Once more, these fashions might be accessible within the US and Germany in early 2026.

Hearth TV

The picture Amazon despatched out as a part of its occasion invite included the nook of a tv, hinting that Hearth TV would get a while within the highlight throughout right this moment’s occasion. And, yup, that turned out to be the case.

There is a new 4K streaming stick referred to as the Hearth TV Stick 4K Choose ($40). Amazon says it helps HDR10+ and your favourite streaming providers. Assist for Alexa+, Luna and Xbox Cloud Gaming is on the best way too. As with the opposite Hearth TV units Amazon introduced right this moment, pre-orders are open and the Hearth TV Stick 4K Choose will ship subsequent month.

In case you’d reasonably have the Hearth TV ecosystem baked into your tv, Amazon’s acquired you lined there. The newest Omni QLED Sequence fashions have shows which might be 60 p.c brighter than earlier variations, Amazon says. The TVs regulate their show colours mechanically relying on the ambient lighting and may activate by themselves after they detect your presence. The TV also can show your images or art work and change off whenever you exit the room. The Omni QLED Sequence TV are available 50-inch, 55-inch, 65-inch and 75-inch variants and begin at $480.

The Omnisense characteristic is obtainable on the newest 2-Sequence Hearth TV fashions too. These budget-friendly 4K choices are mentioned to be 30 p.c quicker than their predecessors. A Dialogue Enhance characteristic might be current on all the newest Hearth TV fashions. You may snap up a 2-Sequence Hearth TV in both a 32-inch or 40-inch variant, beginning at simply $160.

Janko Roettgers of LowPass reported final week that Amazon was set to convey its Vega working system to Hearth TV by the top of this yr. Whaddya know? The corporate confirmed that it is bringing Vega to Hearth TVs and streaming units, together with the 4K Choose. So, it’ll debut in October on at the very least one system. Amazon didn’t say when it might roll out the OS extra broadly, however helpfully famous that Vega is “responsive and extremely environment friendly.”

Blink

No, you didn’t miss it: there are new Blink units as nicely. All of them can seize 2K video, and pre-orders for all three go stay right this moment.

Amazon says the $90 Blink Outside 2K+ has a 4x zoom, two-way speak with noise cancellation, enhanced low-light efficiency and, for Blink Plus subscribers, sensible notifications when individuals and automobiles are detected.

The $50 Blink Mini 2K+ is primarily designed for indoor use, however you possibly can place it outdoors if because of a weather-resistant energy adapter. In any other case, it has the identical options because the Blink Outside 2K+.

Blink had a completely new system to point out off as nicely. The Blink Arc seems to be fairly odd, nearly like a pair of goggles. It homes two Blink Mini 2K+ cameras and combines the footage into “a single, seamlessly stitched feed.” In case you have a Blink Plus subscription, you’ll have entry to a 180-degree view. The Blink Arc will also be used outdoors with the weather-resistant energy adapter. It prices $100, and the mount is an additional $20.

Ring

Retinal Imaginative and prescient is an idea that Ring has constructed its newest units round (for what it’s price, the title jogs my memory I’m in all probability due for an eye fixed examination). The concept is to make use of AI to optimize picture high quality. It faucets into back-side illumination sensors to ship superior low-light efficiency, Amazon says.

An perform referred to as Retinal Tuning samples your Ring digital camera’s video high quality a number of instances per day for as much as two weeks in a try to enhance it. Giant-aperture lenses within the new units will assist with all of that.

To that finish, Amazon has introduced a Wired Doorbell Plus with 2K visuals for $180 and the Indoor Plus Cam 2K for $60. There are 4K fashions too: Outside Cam Professional 4K ($200), Highlight Cam Professional 4K ($250), Wired Doorbell Professional 4K ($250) and Floodlight Cam Professional 4K ($280). Pre-orders for all of them open right this moment.

In fact, there are Alexa+ options for the brand new cameras. Alexa+ Greetings is a perform that may allow the AI to make “knowledgeable choices about learn how to greet sure guests.” Amazon will roll this out for the brand new cameras in December.

Acquainted Faces, in the meantime, is a facial recognition characteristic. It identifies identified faces, so Ring will be capable to notify you after they’re at your door (or if somebody unfamiliar is there). That’s coming in December too.

There’s one other new characteristic referred to as Search Social gathering, which Amazon says is about serving to individuals discover misplaced canines. When a neighbor stories a lacking pooch within the Ring app, a Search Social gathering commences on close by Ring cameras. These will preserve a glance out and notify digital camera homeowners in the event that they spot what stands out as the lacking canine. The digital camera proprietor will then see a photograph of the pet alongside related digital camera footage, and may then select whether or not to alert the canine’s proprietor. Search Social gathering will roll out in November.

Alexa+ and different AI options

Zero prizes for anybody who guessed that Amazon was going to speak up Alexa+ options. That one was a gimme. All the units Amazon simply introduced will assist Alexa+ out of the field.

AI options for books are coming to the Kindle Scribe units and different appropriate Kindles in early 2026. The Kindle iOS app would be the first to achieve entry later this yr. Amazon says the Story So Far choice will catch you up on all the things you’ve got learn in a ebook to that time with none spoilers — which could possibly be useful in case you’re returning to a digital tome after a break. With the Ask this E-book choice, you’ll spotlight any textual content, ask questions on it and get “spoiler-free solutions.” Amazon says hundreds of Kindle books will assist these options.

On Hearth TV units, Alexa+ will be capable to discover scenes in motion pictures utilizing pure language prompts. You’ll ask the assistant to discover a scene the place a sure factor occurs and it’ll attempt to discover that for you. This characteristic is coming quickly.

You’ll be capable to ask the voice assistant to discover a present like one you watched a few nights earlier, a family-friendly film or one thing that options your favourite performer. This isn’t restricted to Prime Video as Alexa+ can faucet into quite a lot of streaming providers, together with Netflix and HBO Max.

You may ask the assistant questions on what you’re watching too, corresponding to particulars about an actor (useful in case you acknowledge them from one other present or film however you’re undecided what) and behind-the-scenes information. This works for stay sports activities as nicely, so you will discover out stats and different nuggets about what you’re watching on Prime Video, Sling TV, DirecTV and Fubo.

On the brand new Echo Present units, there’s an Alexa+ procuring widget,. From right here, you’ll be capable to preserve tabs in your Amazon, Complete Meals and Amazon Contemporary deliveries; entry detailed information on merchandise; and re-order objects with a voice command or a faucet.

Amazon claims Alexa+ may help you determine what present to get somebody based mostly on responses to questions it asks you. The assistant will supply customized suggestions from Amazon.

Alexa+ goes to hook into all method of units and providers. By the Alexa+ Retailer (which might be accessible quickly), you’ll be capable to entry providers from the likes of TaskRabbit, Fandango, Priceline, Uber, Lyft, Thumbtack, GrubHub and Yahoo Sports activities. You may handle your varied Amazon subscriptions through Alexa+ too.

As well as, Alexa+ is coming to audio system, TVs and in-car methods from different manufacturers. These embody Bose, Sonos, LG, Samsung and BMW.

As issues stand, Alexa+ is at the moment free with Prime. Non-Prime members can use it for $20 per thirty days — however it’s possible you’ll as nicely pay $15 per thirty days or $139 per yr for Prime in case you actually, actually need entry to Alexa+.