Amazon Luna, Alexa, Echo, Fire TV and Ring event: Everything announced – CNET

At today’s event, Amazon surprised us with the Luna cloud-gaming service as well as the expected updates to its line of Echo, Fire TV and Ring products. The event helps Amazon generate buzz as we roll into the holiday shopping season, and for the first time, Prime Day (The annual sale is usually held in July, but this year is slated to start on Oct. 13.) That means Alexa everywhere and addressing privacy concerns, which were a big storyline in 2019 for both Ring and Alexa. In a life-at-home existence, with millions of us hunkered down for the long haul, the connected house concepts that Amazon has been developing for years have become more critical than ever. 

The company’s Echo and Fire TV products will be its first to earn sustainability badges and it’s’ working on reducing power consumption across devices with a new low-power mode, an energy dashboard integrated with Alexa and its pledging to build solar and wind farms to generate energy that matches the consumption of all its devices.

• Every new Alexa feature announced so far at today’s Amazon event
• Amazon Alexa devices will understand when children are using them

Amazon Luna

$6/month introductory price.

The company launches a cloud-gaming service on top of Amazon Web Services that runs on PCs, Fire TVs and even iOS. There’s a Luna Plus game channel with a curated set of games and Amazon is partnering with Ubisoft for day 1 availability of some of them.

It has a custom $50 controller that connects directly to the cloud rather than the local device.

Amazon gets into game streaming with Luna

• Amazon announces a new spherical Echo smart speaker
• Alexa Guard Plus transforms your Echo into a security device

Echo 4th gen

$100

Redesigned with a new spherical shape and adapts to the acoustics of the room, the 4th-gen Echo incorporates features formerly in the Echo Plus. It’s also a Sidewalk bridge and includes neural network technology to accelerate Alexa.

Echo Dot 4th gen

$50

Gets the same redesign as the spherical Echo, but now sports a stylish fabric cover and better speaker.

Echo Dot Kids Edition 2020 

$60

Also spherical, with some kid-friendly features, the Kids Edition includes voice profiles for the children and Sidekick, which lets Alexa read to them.

Amazon announces revamped Echo Dot with Clock speaker

Echo Dot with clock

$60

The Dot. With a clock.

Amazon announces the Echo Show 10 

Echo Show 10

$250

It now has Zigbee and Sidewalk hubs, and is much quieter when it pivots in your direction. For privacy, there’s a built-in camera shutter, and all Echo and Alexa’s will have a command to review privacy settings and “delete everything I’ve ever said.” It will also support Hulu, Netflix and Prime Video.

Eero 6

$130

Amazon’s mesh network gets an upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 and ZigBee support.

Amazon unveils new Eero mesh routers that support Wi-Fi 6

Eero Pro 6

$230

The Pro 6 is basically the same as the Eero 6, but designed to handle higher bandwidth — up to gigabit, as opposed to 500Mbps — connections.

‘Alexa, I’m getting pulled over,’ Ring debuts dashcam with Traffic Stop mode

Ring Car Connect

$200

Debuting with Tesla, Connect uses a vehicle’s built-in external cameras to capture video in the event that something happens to the car while driving or parked.

Ring’s flying Always Home Cam robot camera monitors more of your home

Ring Always Home Cam

$250

Autonomous camera that can fly within your home on a preprogrammed route or fly to a motion detection area.

Fire TV Stick Lite streamer costs $30 basic version, $40 for the 4K version

Fire TV Stick

$40

It’s more powerful than before — faster with HDR and Dolby Atmos support — but uses less power.

Fire TV Stick Lite

$30

This model’s for the Full HD viewer rather than 4K; it includes HDR support and an Alexa Voice Remote Lite.

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