Amazon Echo Show 8 2nd Gen

Alexa Can Show You Even More

Experience vibrant entertainment with an 8” HD touchscreen, adaptive color, and stereo speakers. Make video calls with a 13 MP camera featuring auto-framing to keep you centered.

Stay in Frame

Easily make video calls with the new auto-framing camera by asking Alexa to call your contacts.

Make Life Easier at Home

View your calendars, reminders, and get daily recipe ideas hands-free. Use your voice to set timers, update lists, and check news or traffic updates.

Manage Your Smart Home

Monitor your home with the built-in camera, and control devices like cameras and lights using the interactive display, your voice, or motion.

Be Entertained

Enjoy TV shows and movies in HD and stereo with Prime Video, Netflix, and more. Stream music with Amazon Music, Apple Music, or Spotify.

Display Your Memories

Turn your home screen into a digital photo frame with Amazon Photos. Adaptive color ensures your photos look great in any light.

Designed to Protect Your Privacy

Built with multiple layers of privacy controls, including a mic/camera off button and a built-in camera shutter, ensuring your personal information is secure.

Alexa for Kids and Family

Alexa can help kids learn and grow—while having fun along the way. And with free parental controls from Amazon Kids, Alexa will automatically give kid-friendly responses, filter explicit songs and block shopping. Children’s privacy is important to us. Discover how kids can use Alexa, watch helpful how-to videos, get answers to FAQs, and more.

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Simple to set up and use

 

1. Plug in Echo Show 8. 

 

2. Connect to the internet
using Echo Show 8. 

 

3. Just ask Alexa for music,
weather, news, and more. 

Every day is an earth day

You don’t have to be an environmental scientist to make sustainable choices. We considered sustainability in the design of this Echo device. Here’s how:

Materials

10% post-consumer recycled plastics
100% post-consumer recycled fabric
50% post-consumer recycled plastic in power adapter

Clean Energy

Amazon is building new wind and solar farms to produce clean energy equivalent to the electricity used by this device.

Device Packaging

98% of this device’s packaging is made of wood fiber-based materials from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources.

Low Power Mode

To reduce its energy consumption, this device will enter Low Power Mode when it is idle.

Energy Dashboard

Understand the energy usage of select Echo and Alexa-connected devices with the energy dashboard in the Alexa app. Learn more here.

Part With Purpose

There may come a time when you want to trade in or recycle your device. Explore options with Amazon Second Chance.

Technical details

Echo Show 8

Size	7.9”x 5.4”x 3.9” (200mm x 135mm x 99mm)
Weight	36.6 oz (1037 grams) Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process.
Display	8.0” touch screen
Camera	13 MP camera with built-in shutter (Photo quality/size may vary)
WiFi connectivity	Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
Bluetooth connectivity	Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo Show 8 or from Echo Show 8 to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS X devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported.
Audio	2.0” (52 mm) neodymium speakers with passive bass radiator.
System requirements	Echo Show 8 comes ready to connect to your WiFi. The Alexa app is compatible with Fire OS, Android, and iOS devices and also accessible via your web browser. Supported operating systems. Certain skills and services may require subscription or other fees.
Setup technology	Amazon WiFi simple setup enables customers to connect smart devices to their WiFi network in a few easy steps. WiFi simple setup is another way Alexa is always getting smarter. Learn more about frustration-free setup.
Processor	MediaTek MT 8183
Accessibility features	To enable features that personalize Alexa to your abilities, go to Settings → Accessibility. • Tap to Alexa enables access to Alexa via touch, instead of speech, through on-screen tiles or a keyboard, including the ability to save your favorite actions. • Adaptive Listening provides customers more time to finish speaking before Alexa responds. • Preferred Speaking Rate enables customers to control how fast or slow Alexa speaks. • Alexa Captioning, Call Captioning, and Closed Captioning provide text captions in any mode for supported content. • Show and Tell helps customers who are blind or visually impaired identify products when you say “Alexa, what am I holding.” • VoiceView screen reader enables access for customers who are blind or visually impaired. • Screen Magnifier enables customers to zoom in/out, and pan around the screen. • Notify When Nearby will play notification sounds when you’re detected near your Echo device. • Kindle Read Aloud will have Alexa read your Kindle books aloud. • Real Time Text enables customers to type live text in a video call. • Alexa Accessibility features also include settings for Color Inversion, Color Correction, Request Sound and more.