Amazon debuted the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 during its fall 2025 hardware event on Tuesday, after heavily relying on previous versions of the smart display to demonstrate upgrades coming to its Alexa smart assistant at an event earlier this year.
The Echo Show 8 is a new version of one of Amazon’s smaller smart displays, last updated in 2023. There’s not been an Echo Show 11 before, but it feels like a follow-up to the Echo Show 10, which hasn’t been seen since 2021.
Both smart displays have been redesigned to be slimmer and sleeker. The bezels around the screens look thinner than before, though these still aren’t edge-to-edge — there’s enough room for a 13-megapixel camera to sit above each display. But there’s a premium look to the hardware that Amazon’s chunky old Echo Shows could never offer.
That extends to the speakers too. Both new Shows have rounded oblong speakers behind the displays, wrapped in 3D knit fabric. The screens are mounted slightly above and away from the speakers, hopefully leaving enough space for the sound to travel, and for your voice to reach the Show’s microphones.
Like all of the products Amazon announced today, the new Echo hardware is designed to run on Amazon’s revamped Alexa Plus AI assistant, a more powerful assistant based on LLM technology.
The Echo Show 8 will cost $179.99, and the Echo Show 11 will be $219.99.
The first Echo Show — with a front-facing speaker, 7-inch screen, and wedge-shaped case — launched over eight years ago in 2017, but Amazon has since refined its smart display’s design. After introducing an Echo Show with a motorized mount that could pivot the screen and its camera to follow you around a room in 2020, more recent versions of Amazon’s smart displays have gotten simpler and sleeker. In 2022 the company launched the Echo Show 15 with a thin design but a large 15.6-inch screen wrapped in a picture frame, allowing the smart display to blend in with artwork on wall, while 2024 saw the debut of the even larger Echo Show 21 with a 21-inch screen that doubled as an alternative to Amazon’s Fire TV.
Source: www.theverge.com
