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Amazon’s Bee adds two devices and a subscription with shopping suggestions

Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff

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Amazon
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announces two Bee wearable devices and a Bee Pro subscription
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Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new Bee devices — and a new subscription to go with them.

What happened

Amazon announced the $74.99 Bee Frontier wearable, available today, and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse phone accessory, coming soon, alongside a $11.99 monthly Bee Pro subscription. Both devices turn daily conversations into summaries, transcripts, insights, and to-dos; Pro adds app integrations and opt-in Amazon shopping suggestions based on conversations. Amazon says its Private Compute architecture encrypts transcripts, summaries, and to-dos, and the devices do not store audio recordings.

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    The story so far

    Amazon launched the $74.99 Bee Frontier wearable and announced the $99.99 Bee Eclipse phone accessory alongside an $11.99 monthly Bee Pro subscription. Frontier is available now on Amazon and can be worn on the wrist or pinned to clothing; Eclipse attaches magnetically to a smartphone and is coming soon. Both devices turn conversations into summaries, transcripts, insights and to-dos. The free tier includes conversation summaries, recaps and 14 days of memory. Amazon says Bee Pro adds “unlimited” conversation summaries, suggested to-dos, daily memories, a personal chat assistant, conversation templates, integrations with Amazon.com, Alexa+ and third-party apps, and a desktop app. Subscribers can also opt into Amazon shopping suggestions based on their conversations. Amazon says its Private Compute architecture encrypts transcripts, summaries and to-dos, and that the devices do not store audio recordings.

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