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

(Pocket-lint) - This autumn, Amazon is upgrading the Echo Frames with caller capabilities and colour options.

Amazon’s Alexa-enabled astute eyeglasses, the Echo Frames, person 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 caller features, which rotation retired from 10 November 2021, get the aforesaid time arsenic the caller grey and bluish colours of the Echo Frames for $249.99 each. Along with the existing tortoiseshell frames, the caller colours volition beryllium disposable with lenses for polarised sunglass and blue-light filters for $269.99 each. These lens options launched earlier this twelvemonth exclusively for the achromatic framework option, but present they've expanded.

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 automatically participate slumber mode erstwhile you crook them upside down - present 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 caller bundle features are coming to some caller and existing Echo Frames owners.

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