Amazon’s 2025 Hardware Event: The 8 Biggest Announcements

Amazon conscionable vanished up its autumn event, wherever it shared large updates crossed its full hardware lineup. In summation to revealing caller Echo hardware and Kindle Scribe upgrades, Amazon besides took nan wraps disconnected refreshed Fire TV devices and a full bunch more.

Here are each nan announcements Amazon made during nan event.

Amazon revamps nan Echo Show 8 and 11

Amazon debuted its latest Echo Show smart displays, pinch some nan 8-inch and 11-inch models featuring a caller creation that places a slimmer surface atop an oblong speaker wrapped successful knit fabric. Both displays person 13-megapixel cameras pinch a wide-angle position to amended observe group successful nan room, and immoderate upgrades to nan Show UI make it easier to power aggregate devices astatine nan aforesaid time, too. They besides come pinch Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa Plus assistant.

The Echo Show 11 costs $219.99 and has a 1080p display, while nan Echo Show 8 is priced astatine $179.99 and has a 720p display.

Amazon’s redesigned Echo Dot Max has a higher value tag

Amazon is giving its budget-friendly smart speaker an upgrade pinch nan Echo Dot Max. The caller instrumentality supports Alexa Plus but is disposable for $99.99, making it much costly than nan $49.99 Echo Dot. This upgraded instrumentality offers a much powerful speaker pinch 3 times nan bass erstwhile compared to the guidelines Echo Dot, and it besides has higher-quality fabric, a amended microphone array, and an updated creation that places speaker controls and an LED ray ringing connected nan front.

A smaller — but much powerful — Echo Studio

Like nan Echo Dot Max, nan Echo Studio besides puts touch controls and an LED ringing ray connected nan beforehand of nan device. Aside from this change, nan Echo Studio is smaller than its predecessor and besides offers support for spatial audio and Dolby Atmos.

You tin besides usage nan caller Alexa Home Theater characteristic to nexus up to 5 Echo Studio aliases Echo Dot Max devices to create situation sound pinch Fire TV sticks.

A Kindle Scribe pinch color

Amazon is launching 3 caller Kindle Scribes, including 1 pinch a colour display. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft starts astatine $629.99, offering up to 2 weeks of artillery life and nan expertise to highlight, draw, and constitute successful an array of colors erstwhile it launches later this year.

Aside from nan Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Amazon is besides launching an entry-level Scribe starting astatine $429.99, on pinch a mid-tier exemplary pinch a frontlit show starting astatine $499.99. All of Amazon’s caller ereaders characteristic an 11-inch surface pinch thinner bezels, a ray design, and caller AI features for summarizing your notes.

Amazon’s caller Fire TVs person Alexa Plus built in

Amazon’s caller Fire TV Omni QLED lineup features a revamped creation pinch brighter displays and an upgraded processor that allows for faster performance. They besides person support for Dolby Vision and HDR10 Plus, and tin automatically set nan display’s colour based connected nan lighting successful your room. The caller Fire TV Omni QLED models travel successful sizes ranging from 50 to 75 inches and commencement astatine $479.99.

Additionally, Amazon revealed caller 2- and 4-Series Fire TVs, which person thinner metallic bezels and a much powerful quad-core processor. They’re disposable from 32 inches to 55 inches and commencement astatine $159.99. All of Amazon’s caller TVs person Alexa Plus connected board, allowing you to inquire nan upgraded sound adjunct for movie recommendations and sports scores, arsenic good arsenic to hunt for circumstantial scenes crossed Prime Video.

The Fire TV Stick 4K Select runs connected Vega OS

Amazon’s caller Fire TV Stick 4K Select runs connected nan company’s long-rumored Vega operating system, which enables amended capacity successful summation to 4K video value and support for HDR10 Plus. Along pinch nan galore streaming apps you tin usage pinch nan device, Amazon says it will soon support Xbox Gaming, Luna, and Alexa Plus. The Fire TV Stick 4K Select costs $39.99 and is disposable for preorder today.

Ring’s “Retinal Vision” doorbells adhd 4K video recording

There are rather a fewer updates coming to Amazon’s Ring devices, which now includes an full lineup pinch 4K video paired pinch nan company’s caller “Retinal Vision” technology. That includes a caller $249.99 Ring Wired Doorbell Pro 4K, $199.99 Outdoor Cam Pro 4K, $249.99 Spotlight Cam Pro 4K, and nan $279.99 Floodlight Cam Pro 4K. It besides announced a $179.99 Ring Wired Doorbell and $59.99 Indoor Cam Plus pinch 2K video.

Ring highlighted immoderate caller features coming to its cameras and doorbells, too, including an AI facial nickname capability that recognizes group astatine your door, Alexa Plus-powered doorbell greetings, arsenic good arsenic a Search Party feature that helps find mislaid dogs successful your neighborhood.

Blink’s Arc camera offers a panoramic position of your yard

Blink has announced a caller instrumentality called Arc that comes equipped pinch 2 cameras that harvester for a 180-degree view. Blink stitches together nan footage from nan 2 cameras, eliminating nan request to move betwixt aggregate feeds.

In summation to nan $99.99 Arc camera, Blink besides revealed caller Blink Outdoor 2K Plus and Blink Mini 2K Plus cameras, some of which connection 2K video resolution, upgraded audio, colour nighttime vision, and a two-way talking strategy pinch noise-cancellation.