Amazon announces new Echo Show 15, designed to be mounted on your wall

(Pocket-lint) - Amazon contiguous announced a caller Echo Show 15 astatine their yearly hardware event. The instrumentality has a 15.6-inch show and a camera, and is designed to beryllium mounted connected a partition oregon propped up semi-permanently connected a stand. 

Alongside it, Amazon is creating caller Alexa-style widgets which users tin customise all-across the caller expansive display, specified arsenic sticky notes, unrecorded video picture-in-picture via Netflix, Prime, oregon Sling, weather, and more. 

It’ll enactment autochthonal 1080p HD video playback, and erstwhile you aren’t utilizing the device, the Echo 15 volition swivel done a screensaver slideshow of each your favourite images. The instrumentality works successful some representation oregon landscape, but based connected each the selling imagry, it's wide Amazon is hoping you equine it horizonally similar a tv alternatively than an upright tablet.  

Its plan is akin to Samsung’s The Frame TV, which is physically built with a representation framework surrounding the screen, which turns the typically high-tech bezel into a much paper-like photograph framework mat. 

Perhaps 1 of the astir absorbing features is thing called Visual ID, wherever the instrumentality tin beryllium trained to recognise who’s lasting successful beforehand of the surface and alternate the contented shown specifically for them. This volition beryllium large for ample household homes with aggregate users. However, the diagnostic is optional, truthful if you're funny successful your household making usage of it, you'll request to manually enroll alternatively being thing that conscionable occurs automatically.

The instrumentality is utilising a caller customized Amazon-made AZ2 quad-core chipset, which should assistance marque the instrumentality consciousness snappier than immoderate different Amazon instrumentality before.   

Also being introduced is thing dubbed customized dependable detection, truthful you tin thatch Alexa to larn the sounds of your location and respond accordingly. 

The Echo Show 15 volition motorboat for $249.99 aboriginal this year.

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 28 September 2021.