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The Echo Hub is Amazon’s first true smart home controller

An over-the-shoulder view of a person wearing eyeglasses tapping on a wall-mounted Amazon Echo Hub.
The Echo Hub is a new touchscreen tablet designed for controlling your smart home. | Image: Amazon

Amazon announced the Echo Hub ($179.99) at its fall hardware event on Wednesday. Designed specifically as a smart home controller, the Echo Hub is a slimline version of an Echo Show 8 or a shrunken version of a Show 15. It should sit flush on your wall or could be propped up on a table or shelf with a desktop stand.

An eight-inch touchscreen device, the Echo Hub shares the same DNA as an Echo Show smart display, but it is fundamentally a new device. Its slim look resembles a tablet, and while it runs the same OS as the new Show 5, Dave Limp, Amazon’s SVP of devices and services, says the Echo Hub has a different processor, and there’s no camera.

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Author: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. [Source Link (*), The Verge – All Posts]

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