Voice In Canada Flash Briefing #1320

Well. Hey there. Teri here. Thank you so much to all of you that attended The Voice Den last night. It was a wonderful, wonderful show.

And, to all of you that attended the augmented reality party as well, thanks for joining in there as well. That was a great time.

As I mentioned two days ago, there was a huge event from Amazon. And they announced some of their latest products and services.

And I’m going to get into a lot of those over the next couple of days, probably over the next week or so, with these flash briefings.

But today I want to tell you about the Amazon Echo Show 15. It is the brand new Show device and has just been announced.

And it is quite different from the other ones. And I think it’s really cool. And I think it’s going to be a big seller as well.

It is 15 inches (Actually it’s 15.6 inches in diameter) And it can be mounted on a wall. So it is a flat-screen.

And, it can be oriented either in landscape or in portrait. So you can put it either way.

The other very interesting thing about this is that, of course, it has Alexa built-in.

There are now a whole bunch of widgets that you can customize on the screen. So, the idea behind this is it’s going to become the home hub.

So if you’ve got like a bulletin board where you put up let’s say, you’ve got your calendar, and you’ve got some sticky notes for your family, and you’ve got a to-do list, and maybe your shopping list, and I don’t know, you know, or you can just let your imagination run wild here.

This could potentially take the place of that. And of course, Alexa’s built right in. So it can be completely voice-controlled.

One of the other really interesting things about it is when I look at the pictures of it, it looks very much like a finished photo frame.

And I think it’s a wonderful way to be able to display some of the photos that you’d like on it as well.

There are now a whole bunch of widgets that you can customize on the screen

Amazon Echo Show 15 Announced By Amazon

So, I think it’s great. I think it’s going to have a place in a lot of people’s homes. Just to give you an idea of how it compares to other devices.

At least comparing it to the Echo Show 10, which is what’s previously the largest Echo Show device with the swivel base that could move.

So this new one, the Amazon Echo Show 15, has a high resolution. So it’s got 1980 by 1080 resolution. It does not have motion, right?

Because it’s mounted potentially to the wall or it could sit on a stand. Either way. But it does not have a base that swivels. It has two 1.6 inch speakers.

It has a five-megapixel camera. It has a visual ID personalization, meaning that when it notices who you are, it can respond to you.

And as I mentioned, it’s wall mountable. So, very, very interesting. I think it’s a great concept. And like I said, I think it’s going to be a hot item for Amazon.

Here’s the interesting thing. According to the website right now, the price of the Amazon Echo Show 15 is the same as the Amazon Echo Show 10, and they’re both at $329.99 Canadian.

But here’s the catch. Right? Do you want to know when it’s gonna be available? I don’t know yet. But, here’s the good news.

It is on the Canadian website, Amazon.ca. And it does say coming soon. Now if you want to check it out and have a look at it, I will give you my affiliate link here.

Go to VoiceinCanada.ca/EchoShow15. And that will take you directly to this device. VoiceinCanada.ca/EchoShow15, and you can check it out.

And I will be sure to keep you updated on when it gets released and any other information that I hear about it.

Now I’ve got lots of other news from this event that I’ll be sharing over the next little while. So stay tuned for that.

Make sure you are listening to the flash briefing every day. Lots of exciting stuff is coming up and we will eventually get to the robot.

I promise (The robot named Astro) Alright. Have a wonderful day and I will talk to you later.

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