The Morning After: What To Expect From Amazon’s Big Devices Event Today

The autumn tech events conscionable won’t stop. Today, Amazon has its autumn hardware event, which is apt to uncover improvements to sound adjunct Alexa and immoderate caller Echo homes for it to unrecorded inside. It’s been a mates years since nan Echo Show sewage an update, and it’s been moreover longer for nan modular Echo.

The invitation suggests we’re expecting immoderate Kindle upgrades excessively — nan image connected nan invitation is simply a Kindle pinch a colour illustration. The Kindle Scribe 2 came retired earlier this twelvemonth arsenic did nan Kindle Colorsoft, truthful possibly there’s thing successful nan useful that combines nan champion features of both.

While Alexa and Kindle will beryllium nan main draws, Amazon's different tech brands, specified arsenic Ring and Eero, whitethorn besides beryllium present. In short, it's apt to beryllium a engaged event.

It each kicks disconnected astatine 10AM ET successful New York City, wherever we’ll beryllium reporting live. Stay tuned for each nan announcements connected our Amazon devices liveblog. There’s nary video livestream, truthful we’ll beryllium updating from nan arena for illustration it’s 2010.

— Mat Smith

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