Amazon unveiled five new smart home products, including two new device categories: the $200 Echo Time alarm clock/hub and the $230 Alexa Photo Frame. It also introduced an upgraded $100 Echo Dot, a $250 Echo Studio with a built-in Home Camera, and a redesigned $500 Echo Show 16 available for preorder with December shipping. Amazon additionally announced Alexa Home Map, a feature that generates 3D interactive maps of a home's interior and exterior.
zdnet.com
· 2026-10-28
Amazon unveiled the Echo Time, a camera-free smart clock priced at $200 that uses ambient sensors to detect sleep stages and wake users within a 10-to-60-minute window around their set alarm. It runs on Alexa+ and has received the National Sleep Foundation's SleepMark designation, with a kids' version offering parent-controlled sleep schedules.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-28
Amazon introduced five new Alexa-powered devices, headlined by two new product categories: the Alexa Photo Frame, a 10-inch digital picture display, and the Echo Time, a smart alarm clock. The Photo Frame starts at $199.99 and uses Alexa+ to automatically select and display photos based on factors like mood, lighting and season, while syncing with unlimited Amazon Photos storage for Prime members.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-28
Amazon announced a wave of new and updated Echo devices, including the Echo Time smart alarm clock, the Alexa Smart Frame for displaying photos and answering questions via AI, an updated Echo Show 16, refreshed Echo speakers, and a new Echo Studio speaker that includes a camera.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-28
Amazon has released the Echo Time, a bedroom-focused smart alarm clock with a 3.2-inch customizable touchscreen offering hundreds of clock faces. It includes smart alarms that use room sensors, presence detection and ultrasound to track sleep and wake users during lighter sleep phases, and omits a camera in favor of microphone-off controls and listening indicators. The device costs $200 and comes in Graphite, Glacier White and Coral.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-28
Amazon unveiled the Echo Time, its first smart alarm clock, priced at $200 and shipping in December. The device features a 3.2-inch customizable display, adaptive lighting for wake and sleep routines, and an optional AI mode that uses motion and breathing sensors to delay or adjust alarms within a 60-minute window based on sleep depth. It omits cameras and comes in kid-focused versions with parental controls, part of a broader rollout that included a new Echo Show, Echo Studio and Amazon's first smart picture frame.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-28
Amazon introduced five new smart home products and a new feature on Wednesday, roughly two weeks after Apple revealed its HomeView display and HomePod Mini 2. The lineup includes Echo Time, a $200 camera-free alarm clock with Alexa Plus-powered sleep tracking and an optional smart alarm that wakes users during light sleep, plus a kids' version called Amazon Kids Echo Time that pairs with parental controls via the Amazon Parent Dashboard.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-28
At its October 2026 hardware event, Amazon introduced several new Alexa-powered devices alongside updates to Alexa Plus, which reached all US users in February. New products include the Alexa Photo Frame speaker-display hybrid, the Echo Time smart alarm clock, a screenless Echo Studio with a built-in camera, a redesigned Echo Dot, and the Echo Show 16, a flagship smart display with eight woofers and full touch-based Fire TV functionality.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
Amazon unveiled the Echo Time, a new smart alarm clock with a 3.2-inch round touchscreen and a sleep-sensing feature designed to wake users during an optimal point in their sleep cycle. The device, priced at $199.99 and available for order now, lets users set alarms directly via touchscreen rather than voice, and keeps the clock face visible as a priority display even while handling other Alexa functions.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
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