Amazon Adds an Alexa Photo Frame and a Bedside Clock to Its Echo Family

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Oct 28, 2026 8:00 AM

The new Echo Studio also gets a camera, and the Echo Show 16 debuts an AI-generated Alexa interface.

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Panos Panay, Amazon's senior vice president of Devices and Alexa, says a couple hundred million people now use Alexa+, the revamped version of the decade-old voice assistant, on its Echo devices. He says people talk to Alexa+ two to three times more than before its AI glow-up, cook with it five times more, listen to music three times more, and create routines twice as much.

To keep that momentum going, Amazon has new Echo products to deliver a richer Alexa+ experience, including minor refreshes on existing hardware and entirely new categories. Announced Wednesday...

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