Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Prime Webinar GroupPrime Webinar Group

Tech News

Amazon cancels the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition’s main feature — focusing on photos

An image of the Echo Show 8.
Photo by Alex Cranz / The Verge

Last year, Amazon launched the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition that could default to displaying owners’ favorite pictures — as long as they paid an extra fee. Now it looks like that plan has been abandoned, with the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition and its accompanying $2 / month PhotosPlus subscription nearly erased from Amazon’s website.

One customer received a message saying the service has been canceled and that Amazon will no longer offer the subscription starting September 23rd.

The PhotosPlus subscription is what owners need to make photos “the primary content you see” on the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition with a slideshow that rotates every 30 seconds. It also offers the ability to show photos “indefinitely,” as other Echo Show displays will…

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

Tech News

A24 People imagined all sorts of global nightmare scenarios were coming in the months building up to January 1st, 2000, but none of them...

Tech News

Image: The Verge Shein, the massively popular bargain bin retailer selling clothes, accessories, and home goods, said it uncovered two cases of child labor...

Editor's Pick

Walter Olson On August 8, as part of a day of election law panels at the National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual legislative summit,...

Tech News

Illustration: The Verge Apple’s latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and...