Amazon’s Echo Show 5 is a smaller, more affordable Echo Show with a built-in camera shutter

Amazon has been steily growing its Echo lineup of smart devices in India – even as close rival Google has been taking its own sweet time to launch competing products in country. While Google is planning to bring its 1-year-old Nest Home Hub to India soon, Amazon alrey has a next-generation product perfectly aligned to compete directly with it in days to come. Amazon is calling it Echo Show 5 – it's essentially a smaller, more affordable Echo Show with a built-in camera shutter. 

Amazon is launching Echo Show 5 in India alongside global markets – which goes to show how it feels for this market. In India, Echo Show 5 will sell for Rs 8,999 and it will start shipping from July 18. That puts it below 10-inch Echo Show (obviously) and even teensy Echo Spot – clearly, round displays must be (much) harder to make.  

So, what is Echo Show 5? Well, Echo Show 5 is simply an Echo smart speaker with a display – like Echo Show. But while  larger, more expensive Echo Show packs a smart home hub and Dolby sound (among or things), Echo Show 5 doesn’t have any of that. It’s as basic as basic gets in world of smart displays. But re’s one area where Echo Show 5 wins hands down – as ironical as it may seem, Echo Show 5 should give you some peace of mind when it comes to privacy. Echo Show 5 has a physical camera shutter that you can manually toggle – and be rest assured you aren’t being watched. As for Alexa ‘always’ listening to you, re’s always ded option to mute microphone. 

That’s t all. Amazon is also anuncing a new “Alexa Privacy Hub” that will allow users to “delete your voice recordings on all Alexa-enabled devices.” 

“Customers will be able to say “Alexa, delete what I just said” or “Alexa, delete everything I said today” and respective recordings will be deleted,” Amazon says, ding that its new privacy hub will be coming soon, although an exact launch window hasn’t been quoted yet. 

Speaking of core specs, Echo Show 5 has a 5.5-inch HD display that can show you more information about your Alexa queries, play you videos, let you video chat, or simply use it as a smart photo frame. As for audio, well, it’s likely to be an Echo Dot-like affair with its 1.65-inch speaker – which means audio quality will be more or less in line with what you get out of a standard smartphone.  

Echo Show 5 has a familiar fabric design (available in black and white) and of course, Alexa at its core.   

Echo Show 5 is tably second full-on smart display product in India (t counting Echo Spot here). Amazon was also first to bring smart voice speakers to India – with Google following later. 

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