Currently only the Echo Studio supports this, but Amazon is sure to want more people to use Amazon Music HD, and enabling its standard Echo speaker to playback spatial (and HD) audio would certainly help on this front. It might choose to tick the 3D Audio box as well. Better soundĪmazon has improved the audio quality of Echos with each subsequent generation, so that’s one obvious improvement it will almost certainly make to the Echo 5.
Matter isn’t necessarily a reason to buy an Echo 5, though, as Amazon has already said that most of its existing Echo products will get firmware updates that add Matter support. The standard was originally announced in 2019 but various factors including coronavirus (plus other companies that wanted to get on board) meant it well and truly missed its ‘end of 2021’ launch target. But we could be mere weeks away from some of the first going on sale. It’s possible at the moment, but setup is hardly seamless.įor anyone following its development, Matter-enabled devices have been a very long time coming. This should make it far easier to use, say, Philips Hue lights with an Amazon Echo. Its aim is to create proper interoperability between smart devices from different companies. This is a new smart home standard that’s been developed by Amazon, Google, Apple and many other companies. One feature that would definitely be included in any new Alexa device is Matter. What we’re expecting – partly off the back of announcements made at Amazon’s developers conference – are some new features: Support for Matter When it launched the fourth-generation models, the company said the shape improves sound quality, which could mean that we’ll see an iteration on that design rather than something completely new. In terms of design, and given that there are still no rumours or leaks, it’s hard to know if Amazon will keep the Echo 4’s design or not.
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