Amazon’s 2025 hardware event: the 8 biggest announcements

Amazon conscionable finished 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 the wraps disconnected refreshed Fire TV devices and a full clump more.

Here are each the announcements Amazon made during the event.

Amazon revamps the Echo Show 8 and 11

Amazon debuted its latest Echo Show astute displays, with some the 8-inch and 11-inch models featuring a caller plan that places a slimmer surface atop an oblong talker wrapped successful knit fabric. Both displays person 13-megapixel cameras with a wide-angle presumption to amended observe radical successful the room, and immoderate upgrades to the Show UI marque it easier to power aggregate devices astatine the aforesaid time, too. They besides come with Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa Plus assistant.

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

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

Amazon is giving its budget-friendly astute talker an upgrade with the Echo Dot Max. The caller instrumentality supports Alexa Plus but is disposable for $99.99, making it much costly than the $49.99 Echo Dot. This upgraded instrumentality offers a much almighty talker with 3 times the bass erstwhile compared to the basal Echo Dot, and it besides has higher-quality fabric, a amended microphone array, and an updated plan that places talker controls and an LED airy ringing connected the front.

A smaller — but much almighty — Echo Studio

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

You tin besides usage the caller Alexa Home Theater diagnostic to nexus up to 5 Echo Studio oregon Echo Dot Max devices to make situation dependable with Fire TV sticks.

A Kindle Scribe with color

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

Aside from the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Amazon is besides launching an entry-level Scribe starting astatine $429.99, on with a mid-tier exemplary with a frontlit show starting astatine $499.99. All of Amazon’s caller ereaders diagnostic an 11-inch surface with thinner bezels, a airy 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 plan with brighter displays and an upgraded processor that allows for faster performance. They besides person enactment for Dolby Vision and HDR10 Plus, and tin automatically set the display’s colour based connected the 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 almighty 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 the upgraded dependable 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 the company’s long-rumored Vega operating system, which enables amended show successful summation to 4K video prime and enactment for HDR10 Plus. Along with the galore streaming apps you tin usage with the device, Amazon says it volition soon enactment 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 present includes an full lineup with 4K video paired with the 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 the $279.99 Floodlight Cam Pro 4K. It besides announced a $179.99 Ring Wired Doorbell and $59.99 Indoor Cam Plus with 2K video.

Ring highlighted immoderate caller features coming to its cameras and doorbells, too, including an AI facial designation capability that recognizes radical 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 presumption of your yard

Blink has announced a caller instrumentality called Arc that comes equipped with 2 cameras that harvester for a 180-degree view. Blink stitches unneurotic the footage from the 2 cameras, eliminating the request to power betwixt aggregate feeds.

In summation to the $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 with noise-cancellation.