Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition: a portable Echo speaker

Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition has just been released in India. This new variant of the smart health connected speaker was one of the most requested!

Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition meets one of the most requested features of customers in the country: portability. The 4800mAh closed battery will provide up to 10 hours of continuous music listening or up to 11 hours of standby time; according to Amazon. "Portability has been one of the most requested features in India. "Said Miriam Daniel, VP of Alexa Devices. "You want to be able to carry Alexa with you from room to room in your homes. So we designed something just for you. "

The company said the Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition shares the same "hardware architecture" as the Echo Input, a device it launched last year that does not include a speaker.

The battery-powered Echo model, designed exclusively for India, is priced at 5,999 Indian rupees, or around 80 euros. The device currently on pre-order will be delivered from December 18.

In addition to the built-in battery, the new speaker model offers a set of identical features. Access to some 30,000 Alexa skills, compatibility with a range of health home devices. And, of course, support for Alexa voice assistant. The new model also has a set of four LEDs that light up when a user presses the power button to indicate the battery level

Amazon has never disclosed the number of Echo speakers it sold in India. But she noted that this country is one of its most important markets. At a conference in September, Rohit Prasad, vice president and chief scientist of Alexa AI at Amazon, said that "the adoption of Alexa in India has been phenomenal."

Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition is part of a larger plan

Over the years, a number of companies, including LG, Motorola and Sony, have added Alexa support to their headphones and smartphones. The e-commerce giant has invested more than $ 5 billion in India. He is one of many international companies currently betting to make this country of 1.3 billion people one of its main markets. To conquer this market, you have to adapt many of their products and services to local conditions in the country. In September, Amazon announced that Alexa was adding support for the Hindi language to broaden its appeal to the country.

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