Amazon’s growing its Alexa-powered Echo smart device lineup with the new Echo Pop smart speaker, a budget set of Echo Buds and an upgraded Echo Show 5 smart display, the company announced Wednesday.
Amazon’s new Echo Pop is a $40 Alexa smart speaker featuring a semispherical design, similar to the Harman Kardon Onyx. The speaker is designed for smaller rooms and comes in a range of colors, including lavender and teal. Like the other Alexa speakers announced today, the Pop features Amazon’s AZ2 Neural Edge processor for a claimed 20% speed increase, while it can also extend a home mesh network with Eero capability built in.
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Amazon’s SVP Rohit Prasad told CNET that the number of purchases made on Alexa devices had increased by 40% in the past year, and that “the greater percentage of that was on devices with a screen.”
