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Amazon unveils new Echo Dot 2nd generation, launches Oct. 20 for $50. gallery. Amazon hasnât had stock of the original Echo Dot for months, and now we know why. The company unveiled a second-generation Echo Dot on Tuesday with a much more affordable price tag and improved voice recognition. The new Echo Dot, available in black or white and with a slightly changed design, will sell for just $49.99 when it launches in the U.S. on October 20.
Amazon has a new Echo lineup with tiered-speaker heights that remind us of Starbucks coffee sizes (grande, venti, and trenta). Amazon makes a cylindrical, internet-connected Bluetooth speaker called Echo, which doubles as your personal, cloud-based assistant, addressed as Alexa. Now, one year after launching Echo, it is debuting two sibling speakers. The new ones are called Amazon Tap and Echo Dot. If you were to sit all three speakers next to each other, starting with the Echo and ending with the Dot, one would be tall, one would be medium, and one would be short.