Amazon Event 2025 Live: Reactions To Echo Dot Max, Ring, Fire Tv, Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, More

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 2:32 p.m. ET

The Amazon arena has ended, and nan reality of a $630 Kindle is starting to group in. Sure, nan technological advancements we're seeing pinch nan caller Scribe Colorsoft are admirable, but I wonderment if consumers are prepared to ammunition retired laptop/phone money for a note-taking tablet.

But also, should we expect nan upgraded processors and representation -- 2 upgrades that will apt trickly down to different Kindle models -- to beryllium nan logic for Amazon to raise nan prices crossed nan lineup successful nan future?

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 2:13 p.m. ET

I'm happy to study that nan Kindle Colorsoft is, successful fact, very thin. Here's what it looks for illustration beside nan iPhone Air (5.6mm).

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 11:10 a.m. ET

That's a wrap for nan keynote information of today's Amazon event. Panos Panay is backmost connected shape to denote that each nan products coming will beryllium disposable to preorder now. He reiterates that nan intent of Amazon's products is to beryllium simple, empowering, and blend into people's lives.

Now, for immoderate hands-on pinch nan products!

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 11:08 a.m. ET

We're wrapping nan keynote information of today's arena pinch immoderate precocious points for Alexa, including a caller Home Theater characteristic that synchronizes nan audio output of your Echo speakers to create an immersive listening experience. Apple, Google, and moreover Samsung person already tapped into exertion akin to this pinch their hardware, and it's astir clip Amazon did nan same.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 11:00 a.m. ET

Amazon announced a big of Alexa+ features backmost successful Spring, and nan Echo bid has continued to beryllium its biggest driver. The celebrated smart location speakers now person caller versions, including nan Dot, Dot Max, Show 8, and Show 11. They're each powered by caller AZ23 and AZ23 Pro chipsets that thief them process AI quicker and on-device.

The processors besides alteration "Omnisense," which gives Alexa a amended consciousness of nan speakers' environment. 

Echo Max: $99

• Features a caller 3D-knit cloth that has nary seams
• "Accoustically transparent" for a vibrant sound
• Enhanced drivers for triple nan sound of nan erstwhile version

Echo Studio: $219

• Designed for spatial audio and Dolby Atmos, pinch moreover larger speakers

Echo Show 8 (2025): $179

• Comes pinch a 13-megapixel camera for video calling and photos
• A caller business pinch Oura allows users to cheque successful connected their wellness metrics from nan surface while asking Alexa immoderate health-related questions

Echo Show 11 (2025): $219

• Features a larger 11-inch display

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 10:40 a.m. ET

It's Kindle time, pinch Panos Panay backmost connected stage. Here's what's new:

Kindle Scribe (2025): $429 to $499

• Features an 11-inch display
• It's "paper-like," measuring astatine 5.4mm thin
• Texture-molded solid that mimics nan sensation of penning and reference connected paper
• New customized spot pinch much representation for a snappier acquisition ("40% faster connected nan things that matter")
• Comes pinch a caller kickstand lawsuit that lifts nan apical half of nan tablet (when held successful image orientation)

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft: $629

• Features a colored show and framework pinch nan aforesaid clash and velocity arsenic nan modular model

Two caller Kindle features

• Story So Far: Kindle will springiness you recaps of what you've publication truthful far.
• Ask This Book: You tin inquire questions astir characters, plotlines, and moreover communicative arcs astir a book you're reading.

Software tweaks

• The homescreen has a caller Quick Notes tab that shows your caller documents
• A Workspace conception has tabs that you tin record documents into for amended organization
• You tin besides shop and entree Kindle, Google Drive, OneDrive, OneNote, and Alexa+ files now
• AI-powered notebook hunt lets you inquire questions wrong nan hunt bar, and Alexa will reply them by sourcing your existing documents and notebooks (references included)

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 10:34 a.m. ET

Amazon is launching nan latest procreation of nan Fire TV Mini LED series, which features immoderate caller Alexa-powered capabilities, for illustration remote-free sound assistance and auto-wake erstwhile you attack nan screen. You tin besides inquire Alexa to jump to a circumstantial segment successful a movie by simply describing it.

The institution is besides launching caller Fire TV 2-and 4-series models, which commencement astatine $159 and $329, respectively.

And for cord-cutters, there's nan Fire TV Stick 4K Select that costs $39.

Lastly, VegaOS has been confirmed to switch nan existing Fire TV package platform, which, theoretically, makes it easier for developers to create and optimize web-based apps.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 10:28 a.m. ET

Blink cameras are besides getting an upgrade. Amazon has introduced Blink Mini 2K+ ($49) and Blink Outdoor 2K+ ($99), some of which are powered by nan company's latest chipsets for enhanced noise-cancelling, 2K recording, and a much businesslike artillery life.

The Mini, successful particular, is nan company's smallest camera yet, and it functions pinch a plug-and-play mechanic. Blink has besides introduced a caller Arc camera ($100), which features 2 cameras that let it to seizure 180-degree footage. The Blink Arc stitches recordings from nan 2 sensors to create a wide scenery shot.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 10:22 a.m. ET

This one's cool. When/if you ever suffer your pet, you tin nonstop a section ping from nan Ring app to notify neighbors and organization members who besides person Ring cameras to find them. Other Ring users tin nonstop footage of chartless pets, which nan proprietor tin people arsenic a lucifer aliases not.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 10:19 a.m. ET

Alexa+ Greetings, which useful successful tandem pinch Familiar Faces, uses nan AI sound adjunct to respond to group who look connected your Ring camera(s). The characteristic will motorboat successful December. It's very overmuch for illustration Gemini and what Google has been doing pinch nan Pixel Call Assist features, but now you tin person an AI grip conversations astatine your doorfront.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 10:15 a.m. ET

Jamie Siminoff, nan laminitis of Ring, is connected shape to present nan caller lineup of Ring products.

First is Retinal Vision, a caller sensor exertion that uses improved image processing to seizure sharper, clearer-looking images. This plays pinch Retinal Tuning, an AI upscaling usability that's coming to nan latest models.

We're looking astatine 9 caller Ring products, truthful far...

2K recording:

• Wired Doorbell Plus 2K
• Indoor Cam Plus 2K

4K recording:

• Outdoor Cam Pro 4K
• Spotlight Cam Pro 4K
• Wired Doorbell Pro 4K
• Floodlight Cam Pro 4K

For professionals and businesses

• Outdoor Cam Pro POE 4K
• Spotlight Cam Pro POE 4K
• Wired Doorbell Elite 4K

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 10:10 a.m. ET

Ring is nan first hardware announcement today. Over nan past fewer months, Amazon has introduced respective package features to nan information lineup, including AI-generated notification descriptions, and now, amended hardware is disposable to accommodate those capabilities.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 10:07 a.m. ET

Panos Panay, Amazon's Chief Product Officer, sets nan tone, speaking to nan company's continued efforts successful making exertion that seamlessly blends into our environments.

Panay starts by referencing a caller acquisition astatine nan meal table. He emphasizes nan request for everyone to beryllium coming and to group nan phones aside. But his girl almost ever has a mobility -- successful immoderate cases, a debate.

To reply it, personification must propulsion retired their phone, which disrupts nan travel of nan environment. "Right there, you mislaid nan moment," Panay says. Now, nan integration of Alexa+ shifts those dynamics. Everybody stays present.

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 9:50 a.m. ET

We're officially seated and fresh for nan first Amazon Devices and Services arena successful a while! Get fresh for news connected nan latest hardware successful conscionable minutes. Also, nan venue is very bright. 

By Kerry Wan, Managing Editor / Sept. 30 astatine 9:30 a.m. ET

Amazon was 1 of nan first large brands to merchandise smart glasses, pinch nan Echo Frames bringing Alexa-powered sound assistance to nan masses. Since then, they've been overshadowed by Meta -- and Google and Samsung are expected to merchandise competitors soon.

I don't expect Amazon to motorboat thing to that grade today, arsenic it's apt focusing much connected smart location gadgets, Alexa+, and Fire TV. But 1 tin hope.

By Maria Diaz, Writer / Sept. 30 astatine 8:41 a.m. ET

The Amazon Devices and Services arena won't beryllium publically livestreamed, but ZDNET editors will beryllium connected tract astatine nan venue truthful that you tin travel nan news done this unrecorded blog. We'll beryllium watching nan keynote and merchandise announcements, which statesman astatine 10:00 a.m. ET, to bring you nan latest accusation arsenic it becomes available. Simply refresh this page to enactment up-to-date.

By Maria Diaz, Writer / Sept. 29 astatine 11:30 a.m. ET

Ahead of nan Amazon Devices and Services arena connected Tuesday, tech journalist Janko Roettgers reports that a caller operating strategy for Fire TVs is launching this year. Codenamed Vega OS, nan caller strategy would switch FireOS connected caller tv hardware and, potentially, caller tablets and Echo devices down nan line.

Vega OS is based connected Linux alternatively of Android, which could springiness Amazon nan opportunity to refresh its package crossed devices. However, this presents nan situation of bringing developers connected committee to create apps successful a wholly different system. 

By Maria Diaz, Writer / Sept. 29 astatine 10:21 a.m. ET

The past Devices and Services arena happened successful 2023, erstwhile Amazon announced caller Ring, Blink, Echo, and Fire TV products and nan summation of generative AI to Alexa. However, nan institution skipped nan 2024 arena aft failing to present nan caller Alexa acquisition and opted to softly motorboat caller products astatine nan extremity of past year. 

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SVP Panos Panay hosted an Alexa arena successful February 2025 to reinvigorate nan motorboat of Alexa+, a generative AI-powered virtual assistant. Since then, Alexa+ has launched connected an early entree program, wherever only a constricted number of users person entree to it.