Amazon just unveiled a brand-new $150 Echo Plus

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The Amazon Echo Plus is a larger, more powerful version of the Amazon Echo smart-speaker device. This is the previous model.

• Amazon announced a range of new products and product updates to its Alexa-powered hardware line-up on Thursday.
• Among them, Amazon unveiled an updated Echo Plus - the largest, most premium version of its smart speakers.
• The new Echo Plus costs the same $150 as the previous version, and is available for pre-order imminently.

Amazon just introduced a brand-new Echo Plus.

The new device, which is an update to the device that debuted last year, was unveiled at an event at its headquarters in Seattle on Thursday.

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The new Echo Plus will serve as a smart home hub, just like last year's version, and will have a new feature called local voice control. The new feature is a crucial edition considering the Echo Plus acts as a smart hub for the home: It enables the device to still function when the internet goes down.

Echo Plus will cost $149.99 and will be available to preorder starting Thursday.

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