Google’s Smart Displays Take on Amazon’s Echo Show, Speakers With Tablet-Like Screens

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’s Smart Displays Take on

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’s Echo Show, Speakers With Tablet-Like Screens

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said on Monday its voice-controlled virtual assistant will show up this year in new tablet-like devices designed by LG Electronics and Sony as the technology company seeks to challenge

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.com’s dominance in a fledgling market.

Dubbed smart displays by

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, the new devices introduce tablet-like screens to speakers that can obey ***** commands to perform tasks like playing music, dimming lights, locking doors and setting alarms. JBL and Lenovo also are developing smart displays,

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said.

 

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kick-started the market for smart speakers in 2014 with its Echo device, which included the Alexa virtual assistant. The company added a screen for the first time in June, calling the device the Echo Show.

Neither Apple’s assistant Siri nor

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’s Cortana are currently available on a speaker with a tablet-like display.

The new

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Assistant gadgets unveiled Monday at the CES trade show in Las Vegas mark the first challenge to

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’s Echo Show and the smaller Echo Spot, which also has a display. The Show went on ***** in June for $230 (roughly Rs. 14,600) and the Spot in December for $130.

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Users of the smart displays being unveiled by

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cannot browse the Web or install apps as they would on a tablet, but the new gadgets are optimized for sound quality and listening to voice commands. Information related to the commands is brought up on the touchscreen.

Lenovo’s version of the smart display will come with an 8-inch screen for $200 (roughly Rs. 12,700) or a 10.1-inch screen for $250 (roughly Rs. 15,900) . The device will go on ***** “early this summer” and includes a camera that shoots in 720p high definition, Lenovo said.

JBL, part of Samsung Electronics’ Harman Kardon subsidiary, LG and Sony did not announce pricing and release dates.

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as it tries to catch up with

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in the new category of smart speakers that both play music and function as voice-controlled electronic assistants. About 45 million people in the ******* States will use smart speakers in 2018, research firm EMarketer estimates, and

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has about two-thirds of the US market.

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did not immediately respond to a request to comment.

Steep discounts during the holidays on the most affordable models of

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’s Home smart speakers and the

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Echo likely meant both companies were taking losses to get them into millions of homes, analysts told Reuters.

In a sign of the stakes involved,

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last year cut off the Echo Show’s access to

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and took the rare step of explicitly saying it was acting in retaliation for

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refusing to sell

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products.

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videos and showing recipes are top selling points for smart displays, said Gummi Hafsteinsson, the

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product director overseeing Assistant.

The devices can show details about restaurants, launch a video chat over

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did not announce its own hardware plans on Monday.

The company has experimented with developing a version of

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Home with a screen, Rishi Chandra, vice president of the division, told Reuters in August.

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