The smart display is finally becoming a proper digital photo frame — for a fee.
for extra features such as cloud backup and albums. However, you can still use it as a photo frame without paying.doesn’t have a fee and costs $10 less than Amazon’s new “photo-forward” Show. But it doesn’t have other smart display features — no Alexa voice assistant, smart home controls, or streaming video and audio content.
This move feels a lot like the Show’s version of the ad-free Kindle, and I can see this appealing to those who enjoybut dislike the rotating homescreen cruft that, no matter how much you tweak in Settings, still manages to push crap at you. The Echo Show in my kitchen has “shown” me repeatedly over the last six months that I can create a story with my child on the Show. My 15-year-old is not interested, Amazon.
The Echo Show needs a real digital photo frame mode, but with competitors like Google offering it for free, this will be a tough sell. However, if that $2 a month would also let me disable Alexa’s deeply annoying “By the way” feature, that gets a lot more interesting.
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