You Can Preorder Amazon’s New Echo Dot, Echo And Echo Studio Speakers in India

Pull out your credit cards, folks. Every year, at around this time, Amazon gives us a peek at the completely new set of hardware that will keep us engrossed and amazed for the next few months. This year was no different. The company has announced a bunch of new Alexa capable hardware, which includes updates and additions to the Echo line-up of audio products. The good news is, quite a few of these Alexa virtual assistant enabled smart speakers will be heading to India before the end of this year and are already up for preorder on Amazon.in as well.
The Echo Dot with Clock will be the first rollout in India. It is priced at Rs 5,499 and will start shipping on October 16 if you pre-order this now. This is the third generation of the smallest Echo speaker and now integrates an LED display which becomes the clock, the weather display or even the alarm clock. This makes it even more relevant for the bedside table or the kitchen counter, for instance. Apart from the addition of the new integrated display which sits behind the fabric outer cover, the design remains largely the same as the second-generation Echo Dot—that in itself was a big design update compared with the first generation. At present, Amazon has only listed the white colour option, though the predecessor was also available in grey and black colours. The Alexa commands, the routines as well as skills and the smart home functionality are retained.

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