Amazon teases possible new Fire TV, Echo and | Tech News

Hot on the heels of massive launches from Samsung and Apple, Amazon is the newest tech giant to ship out invitations to media for an upcoming occasion, the place all clues level to the firm releasing a number of new gadgets.

Invites have been despatched out for an upcoming occasion to be held in New York City on September 30.

Judging by the hooked up image, the occasion is set to reveal a slew of new {hardware} from Amazon’s many product strains. The composite is made up of what appears to be like to be two Amazon Echo audio system, a color screen Kindle and what may very well be a Fire TV.

Amazon used its final massive occasion Stateside to launch Alexa+, its next-generation replace to its Alexa AI assistant, however there was no new {hardware}. It appears to be like like Amazon will make up for that in a couple of weeks’ time.

In current years Amazon has targeting its smaller Echo speaker line up with the Echo Pop and Echo Dot, however the pictures teased right here within the high left and high proper of the image seem to show gadgets with glowing rings on the highest of bigger models, indicating we may see updates to long-forgotten rangers such because the Amazon Echo Studio from 2019.

This speaker seemed a lot like Apple’s HomePod however hasn’t been up to date for years.

It’s additionally a whereas since we’ve seen a cheaper Echo speaker with high quality audio chops, because the small Echoes Amazon has most well-liked to replace lately are definitely low cost, however their audio high quality leaves a lot to be desired with regards to blasting your tunes.

On the underside proper of the image is what seems to be a color Kindle screen, indicating a new machine that may very well be half of the firm’s Kindle Colorsoft line up. The first Kindle Colorsoft solely launched final yr, with a barely cheaper model unveiled a few weeks in the past.

Zooming in, you may see some textual content on the Kindle’s screen that claims “stroke of a pen”, closely hinting the new color Kindle could have pen enter – identical to Amazon’s massive Kindle Scribe line up. Perhaps the Scribe is getting a full color model. We’ll have to attend and see.

The backside left half seems to be a TV screen, indicating updates to Amazon’s Fire TV {hardware} or platform, although that additionally leaves the door open for updates to the Fire pill vary, too. Recent rumours recommend Amazon is mulling a high-end Fire pill that runs full Android and isn’t constrained as its present vary is, to Fire OS, which doesn’t help Google apps and has different restrictions.

The occasion in NYC on September 30 begins at 10am Eastern, which is 3pm UK time. It’ll be held by Amazon SVP Panos Panay, the manager who just lately defected to Amazon after years heading up Microsoft’s Surface {hardware} division.

Amazon doesn’t all the time stream its launch occasions, however Express.co.uk could have all the newest from the occasion on the day.