Two questions:
1) These look like (horrible) renders. Do they not have working ones to show before announcing?
2) None of the photos show a power cord, are these battery powered or just trying to make them look "sexier" than they are?
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#12The speed of iteration on the Alexa product line is really impressive. Nine months ago, Alexa and Google Home seemed like two sides of the same coin. But now it feels like there's almost no comparison, Alexa is gonna do more and get the skills and features that fit my needs faster. I'm a Google Home owner, so perhaps it's a case where the grass is always greener :-)
I just see it as adding vanity features to a mediocre product. People are espousing real fear of artificial intelligence, but since I can't get my echo to play the right radio station more than half the time, quitting after 5 failed tries ("The Current" sounds nothing like "Berlin", I'm fairly sure you could train a dog to recognize the difference) I'm not too worried about robot overlords any time soon.
Get me voice recognition that actually understands language and can be corrected to learn what I want in even the most basic ways and I might change my mind. Adding cameras and screens only makes a creepy device creepier. I don't trust a company that sells me things designed primarily as vectors to sell me more things.
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#13Two questions: 1) These look like (horrible) renders. Do they not have working ones to show before announcing? 2) None of the photos show a power cord, are these battery powered or just trying to make them look "sexier" than they are?
Specs say it includes a six foot power cord.
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#14Maybe I'm just wearing a foil-helmet, but the presence of a front-facing camera on an always-on device is concerning to me when there is no real good reason to have it.
Typed from laptop or phone.
Both complete with front facing cameras :)
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#15What is the quality of the screen? exact circle, resolution, colors? and what is the angle of the camera?
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#16Wow. I'm sure every dev looked as this and thought. Dammm
That's a lot of visual resizing and messing to get it to a circle display.
There is a reason we don't have circle TVs
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#17Two questions: 1) These look like (horrible) renders. Do they not have working ones to show before announcing? 2) None of the photos show a power cord, are these battery powered or just trying to make them look "sexier" than they are?
Photo above the comparison with a plug.
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#19I'm thinking this is the answer to the Echo Dot - for the Echo Show lines. The name makes it pretty obvious, as does the price point.
These actually fill my needs better, since I don't need the fancy speakers and these look way slicker. The Echo Show is amazingly ugly. And this is a full $100 cheaper.
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#20Ah, this reminds me of the Chumby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby) from 2008, I'm sure with voice recognition and video call capabilities, the Echo is hopefully a bit more useful.