Amazon debuted the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 during its fall 2025 hardware event on Tuesday, after heavily relying on previous versions of the smart display to demonstrate upgrades coming to its Alexa smart assistant at an event earlier this year.
The Echo Show 8 is a new version of one of Amazon’s smaller smart displays, last updated in 2023. As the name suggests, it includes an 8-inch display, in this case with a 720p resolution. It’s an LCD display, but apparently an improved one, with wider viewing angles and higher contrast than older Show hardware.
There’s not been an Echo Show 11 before, but it feels like a follow-up to the Echo Show 10, which hasn’t been seen since 2021. In addition to a larger display than the new Show 8, it enjoys a higher 1080p resolution.
Both smart displays have been redesigned to be slimmer and sleeker. The bezels around the screens look thinner than before, though these still aren’t edge-to-edge — there’s enough room for a 13-megapixel camera to sit above each display. But there’s a premium look to the hardware that Amazon’s chunky old Echo Shows could never offer.
That extends to the speakers too. Both new Shows have rounded oblong speakers behind the displays, wrapped in 3D knit fabric. The screens are mounted slightly above and away from the speakers, hopefully leaving enough space for the sound to travel, and for your voice to reach the Show’s microphones.
Unlike some recent Echo Shows, including the last Show 10, both the new devices are static. Amazon is selling a separate magnetic stand which will let you tilt the screen a little, but nothing along the lines of the motorized Shows that can follow you around the room.
Like all of the products Amazon announced today, the new Echo hardware is designed to run on Amazon’s revamped Alexa Plus AI assistant, a more powerful assistant based on LLM technology. New AZ3 Pro chips inside both devices will power the upgraded assistant and the new Omnisense sensor platform, which combines information from the camera, microphones, Wi-Fi radar, accelerometer, and more to sense what’s going on around it.
Alexa Plus is still optional for now though — you’ll have the choice to enable it out of the box on the new Echo Shows, but can stick with regular Alexa if you prefer. Alexa Plus is still US-only for now though, so if you live elsewhere you’ll be getting the older assistant either way.
Show UI, the interface that launched with Alexa Plus on the Show 21 and 15 earlier this year, has had some improvements too. Amazon shows off a new full-screen smart home panel that helps you control multiple smart home devices at once. And since both devices support the Thread, Matter, and Zigbee smart home protocols, they should serve as pretty capable smart home hubs.
The Echo Show 8 will cost $179.99, and the Echo Show 11 will be $219.99, and both are available to preorder today.
The first Echo Show — with a front-facing speaker, 7-inch screen, and wedge-shaped case — launched over eight years ago in 2017, but Amazon has since refined its smart display’s design. After introducing an Echo Show with a motorized mount that could pivot the screen and its camera to follow you around a room in 2020, more recent versions of Amazon’s smart displays have gotten simpler and sleeker. In 2022 the company launched the Echo Show 15 with a thin design but a large 15.6-inch screen wrapped in a picture frame, allowing the smart display to blend in with artwork on wall, while 2024 saw the debut of the even larger Echo Show 21 with a 21-inch screen that doubled as an alternative to Amazon’s Fire TV.
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