By will-buy
Amazon has updated the Echo Frames smart glasses with new features and colors. The Alexa-enabled smart glasses now offer gray or blue variations and new interaction options and commands for Alexa. The Echo Frames are otherwise the wearable Alexa device that Amazon released after graduating from the First day pilot program.
Alexa Eyes
The Echo Frames software updates will be in the new products in addition to pushed to existing customers. The most important addition may be the new Top Contact feature for accelerating calls to some favorite contact. Wearers pick a saved number for his or her top contact and can then call it having a long press on the smartglasses' touchpad. And Alexa are now able to react to either Alexa or Echo based on what the mobile app sets the wake word. Wearers should soon hear all audio interactions through the Echo Frames better using the dynamic Auto Volume that Amazon upgraded to increase and fall based on changing noise around the wearer. To reduce battery life, the Echo Frames are taking a page in the realm of earbuds, automatically entering sleep mode when turned inverted and awakening when placed on the owner's face. Amazon can also be extending the existing hands-free texting feature for Android to iOS devices, so iPhone owners do not possess to use their phones to begin dictating messages.
“It's been nearly a year since Echo Frames became open to everyone, and we're just starting out. We're looking forward to the opportunity of smart glasses, and we're always trying to enhance the experience and act on customer feedback,” Echo Frames director Jean Wang explained inside a blog post.” We're excited to announce new colors and features which make Echo Frames more adaptive and stylish, and make it simpler than ever that you should keep in touch and engaged.”
Coloring Alexa
That expanded color palette for that Echo Frames now counts what Amazon calls 'Quartz Grey' and 'Pacific Blue' for that standard, prescription, sunglass, and blue light-filter lenses. The filtered lenses are made to cut the blue light from digital screens long linked to headaches and insomnia. The 'Modern Tortoise' design previously restricted to the conventional lenses is also available these days for sunglass or blue-light-filtering lenses. All of the new options become available on Nov. 10. The Echo Frames sunglasses and blue light filters cost $270, as the prescription-ready version runs $250 before the prescription is calculated.
“We know style is important with regards to eyewear, so we're adding much more color and lens combinations for customers,” Wang wrote. “The newest additions give customers a total of 13 different color and lens combinations to select from inside the Echo Frames family.”
The focus on the look of the smart glasses is similar to Anker's new Soundcore Frames and its 10 swappable frame varieties. The list of options for audio-based smart glasses is rapidly lengthening, as options like Razer's Anzu smart glasses, Huawei's Eyewear II, and also the new Ray-Ban Stories built with Facebook appear. With choices mushrooming, color and style could be the edge elements which help Amazon or its competitors stick out.
