Amazon Echo Frames now available in new colours and with new features

(Pocket-lint) - This autumn, Amazon volition reportedly upgrade the Echo Frames with caller capabilities and colour options.

Amazon’s Alexa-enabled astute eyeglasses, the Echo Frames, person seemingly received a bundle update. The eyeglasses tin present automatically aftermath up from power-saving slumber mode erstwhile you enactment them connected your face, and they enactment a shortcut truthful you tin rapidly telephone a contact.

These features, which supposedly rotation retired from 10 November 2021, volition get the aforesaid time arsenic grey and bluish colours for the Echo Frames, costing $249.99 each. Besides the existing tortoiseshell frames, the caller colours volition beryllium disposable with lenses for polarised and blue-light filters for $269.99 each. All these options launched this twelvemonth exclusively for the achromatic frames, but are present expanding.

Other caller features, according to 9to5Toys, see the quality to telephone a precedence interaction with a long-press of the Echo Frames’ touchpad - positive you tin alteration the Frames’ aftermath connection from “Alexa” to “Echo". The automatic measurement diagnostic present overcomes large ambient noise, too, and the glasses - which participate slumber mode erstwhile turned upside down - aftermath whenever you enactment them connected your face.

Lastly, the hands-free substance messaging feature, which was already disposable connected Android, is coming to iOS "in the coming months".

These bundle features are coming to some caller and existing Frames owners.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 28 October 2021.