Amazon has a press event scheduled for September 30 at 10AM ET. Panos Panay, who leads the company’s Devices & Services team, will be on hand. This strongly suggests that Amazon will announce some new hardware.
We don’t exactly know what the company will reveal, but we do have a giant clue. The press invite also included a composite image of various Amazon devices. These appear to include a Kindle ereader, a Fire TV of some kind and an Echo speaker. Those are three of the company’s biggest product categories.
It’s been a while since we’ve gotten a new entry-level Kindle, though Amazon did recently refresh both the Scribe and the Colorsoft. It’s also possible the company will announce a refresh of the Paperwhite ereader.
It’s a similar story with Echo speakers. The company recently refreshed the Echo Dot and the Echo Pop, along with the Echo Show 8, but it’s been nearly five years since it redesigned the standard Echo speaker. It’s possible the company’s speakers will be getting some kind of new integration with the Alexa+ smart assistant.
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve gotten a big influx of new Fire TVs and related streaming sticks, so those could also be on the docket. However, that part of the invite image is a bit fuzzy and might be advertising an upcoming tablet and not new TVs. In any event, we only have a couple of weeks before finding out.
