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Amazon has essentially combined its Fire TV product line with an Echo Dot, and given it a cube shape:
The new media streamer first leaked after a report from AFTVNews last September. Amazon later confirmed that it was working on a device called the Fire TV Cube, but didn't reveal any details aside from that.
It turns out the original leak was spot on. The Fire TV Cube is best described as a shiny, cube-shaped version of the 4K- and HDR-compatible Fire TV box Amazon launched last year with an Echo Dot smart speaker built into it and IR blasters tacked on.
The device will be available for preorder on Thursday and formally go on sale on June 21. It'll cost $120, though Amazon is running a promotion in which users of its Prime service can buy the box for $90 this Thursday and Friday. The existing 4K Fire TV box costs $70.
Amazon Fire TV Cube retains the same quad-core ARM Cortex-A53, Mali 450 MP3 GPU, and 2 GB RAM as its smaller predecessor, but doubles storage to 16 GB.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stretch611 on Friday June 08 2018, @09:18PM
Yes, the majority of the tech people here are going to knock this. Obviously, I am one of those agreeing with that assessment.
As I said on a previous post here on SN, These POS speakers are not created to make your life easier, their purpose is to sell you shit from amazon (or google, apple, etc) and increase their market dominance.
Of course, they are shiny, so why we continue to lambaste them, the general public will show its ignorance and buy a ton of them
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P