Amazon's Bee launches two new personal AI devices from $74.99
The Bee Frontier is available now, and the Bee Eclipse is coming soon.
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$74.99
Starting price of the Bee Frontier
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$74.99Starting price of the Bee Frontier
The short version
- Amazon's Bee, acquired last year, announced its first new products since the deal.
- The Bee Frontier can be worn on the wrist or pinned to clothes and costs $74.99.
- The Bee Eclipse is a credit-card-sized device that magnetically attaches to the back of a smartphone and costs $99.99.
- Both devices record everyday conversations and produce summaries, transcripts, and to-dos.
Why it matters
The launch puts an always-listening AI note-taker from Amazon into direct competition with devices like the Plaud Note and Pocket, at a lower price. For developers, the integrations with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Outlook show how these devices can take actions from conversation data. Amazon says audio is processed in real time and then deleted, which is a privacy detail worth checking.
“Transcripts of the conversation are encrypted using keys that your device creates and controls”