Amazon took the wraps off its latest Echo Dot smart speaker during its fall hardware event on Tuesday. The Echo Dot Max is a new entry that updates the recognizable spherical design with a flat face housing the speaker’s control buttons and LED light ring.

At $99.99, the Echo Dot Max is the same price as Apple’s HomePod Mini, and costs twice as much as the fifth-generation Echo Dot. Amazon says the sound system has been redesigned to provide nearly three times more bass than its predecessor. Unveiled today alongside the new Echo Studio, Echo Show 8, and Show 11, Amazon says that these are “the most powerful Echo devices we have ever created.”

The speaker uses Amazon’s new AZ3 processor to run new edge-based computing capabilities and improve conversation detection by filtering out backgr

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