It is a small horizontal tablet that silently follows you when you speak, when you watch a movie or in the kitchen you are preparing to follow a recipe. The new Echo Show 10 has a motorized base that rotates the screen in the direction of the speaker. It seems born for flying videoconferences, those where you don’t have to sit but you can move. If you move around the room, it follows your voice thanks to the directional microphone and the “computer vision” (the camera). But it is also good as a surveillance camera that can be controlled and guided by smartphones when no one is around. The new Alexa imsomma is increasingly finding its calling, in the center of the house. We tried it, here are our impressions.
The first impression
The object that will be carefully placed in a strategic point of the kitchen or living room. It’s not small, the screen is ten inches and rotates 360 degrees. To be silent it is silent and it has also been designed well because you can also decide how much it can rotate so as not to do damage. Furthermore, if you are more than one person in front of the screen, it will try to automatically keep as many people as possible. . The new 13 MP wide-angle camera adjusts the frame to always keep the subject in the foreground and in the center of the image. Think birthday wishes or family video calls to grandparents. Here, the idea of putting an engine on the screen is for this.
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How privacy works.
The eye that follows you can be creepy. Indeed it is as rewarding as it is disturbing. At Amazon they are aware of this, so they knowingly added the ability to make the new Echo Show blind and deaf. In other words, the movement is disabled, and the switch that cuts power to the motor at the same time also physically covers the camera lens.
Home, audio and entertainment
The Echos aren’t as nice as Google Home but they sound better. The new smart speaker has dual front tweeters and a woofer. It also uses Echo Studio technology to detect room acoustics. As for the connected home, you can control over 140 thousand compatible products, such as security cameras, lights, thermostats and much more, and you can also watch programs and movies on Prime Video or Netflix directly from the device. Thirty euros more than the previous model, therefore 249.99 euros.