Amazon unveils its first-ever pair of smart glasses, the Echo Frames

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Alexa, where are my glasses?

Oh, I’m wearing them.
Alexa, where is my music?
Oh, in my ear.
The gist of Amazon’s massive product reveal Wednesday was new ways to get Alexa into our daily lives, from smart glasses and earbuds to a tiny Echo that connects to a night light for the bedroom.
The buds will answer to Alexa, as opposed to Siri on the AirPods.
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That product never went beyond invite-only.
Ask Alexa or the Google Assistant for help
“I’m blown away by the sheer number of announcements and use cases the company is addressing,” says Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy.
“The highlight was the glasses.
That fundamentally changes the game on how to work with Alexa.
Prior smart glasses tried to do too many things.”
The glasses were an answer to consumers asking for ways to continue using Alexa when out of the home, without having to plug a device into power.
Other highlights:
•Saying that customers ask Alexa more than a billion times a year what time is it, Amazon responded by releasing a new edition of the Echo speaker, with a clock.
Echo Dot with clock will sell for $59 and be available in November.
Amazon said the Dot is far and away Amazon’s best-selling speaker.
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He likened the sound to being in a great jazz club or symphony.
In a demo for the media, the $199 speaker sounded surprisingly strong, like several speakers connected together instead of one little Echo speaker.
•In the non-Echo area of the smart home, Amazon introduced a new version of the Eero device that looks to manage Wi-Fi in the home and eliminate dead spots, lowering the price by half, to $99 from $199, and offering a three-pack for $249, down from $399.
“Privacy is foundational to everything we do,” Limp said.

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