Amazon’s 2023 Echo Present is quicker and gives improved audio

Amazon up to date the usual and Children variants of the Echo Present 5 in its string of Alexa {hardware} bulletins in the present day. The brand new mannequin is quicker and sounds higher, but it surely in any other case may very well be mistaken for the earlier model.

The Echo Present 5 has a virtually (or precisely) an identical design to the final era mannequin, together with a 5.5-inch display screen for watching the information, video-chatting or seeing who’s at your door. Amazon says the brand new third-generation Echo Present 5 is 20 p.c sooner than the second-gen mannequin. As well as, it has an upgraded speaker system that “doubles the bass” from its predecessor. It additionally provides a redesigned microphone array to select up voices extra simply.

In the meantime, the Echo Present 5 Children takes the brand new {hardware} and provides a space-themed design and a sequence of child-focused options. Along with the anticipated parental controls and the generative AI characteristic Create with Alexa, it provides kid-friendly responses, jokes, homework assist and explicit-lyric filtering. It additionally comes with one 12 months of Amazon Children+, the corporate’s subscription service that provides “ad-free and age-appropriate” audiobooks, video games, movies and Alexa abilities.

The Echo Present 5 is offered in the present day for $90 in charcoal, white and blue choices. The Children variant prices $100 and is offered within the pictured galaxy design.