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The system whitethorn beryllium struggling, with user assurance at its lowest constituent successful years, but that hasn't stopped the tech manufacture from preparing for the vacation buying play with a torrent of caller merchandise releases.

In August, Samsung showed disconnected its Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 folding phones. Earlier this month, Apple announced its iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra. Chipmaker Nvidia has shown disconnected a caller bid of graphics cards, the $1,599 RTX 4090 and $899 RTX 4080. And Google and Microsoft are besides expected to clasp events connected Oct. 6 and Oct. 12, respectively.

On Wednesday, Amazon will hold its large merchandise lawsuit for the year, during which we usually get upgrades to fashionable devices similar the Echo Dot, which usually starts astatine $50 but is regularly connected merchantability for arsenic small arsenic $19. There's besides Amazon's Ring location information subsidiary. 

But Amazon is besides known for throwing wacky ideas astatine the partition to spot what sticks, similar adding Alexa smarts to a microwave or an analog clock. Last year, the institution unveiled the Amazon Glow for kids and the Halo View fitness tracker. It besides showed disconnected the Ring Alarm Pro home information strategy and a flying Always Home Cam drone to ticker your location erstwhile you're away. We besides got a look at Astro, Amazon's ambitious robot assistant, which is inactive successful constricted income and testing.

Amazon has a batch planned for the adjacent fewer months. In summation to this hardware and services event, the institution volition clasp its second Prime Day, known arsenic the Prime Early Access Sale, adjacent month. Part of the constituent of this lawsuit is to drum up attention for that large buying day. That rumored merchantability would beryllium successful summation to Amazon's accustomed Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals up of the holidays. Amazon has besides been expanding its Prime video work with unrecorded events like NFL Thursday Night Football games.

When

Amazon's lawsuit is scheduled to commencement Wednesday, Sept. 28, astatine 9 a.m. PT / noon ET / 5 p.m. BST / Sept. 29 astatine 2 a.m. AEST. (Here's a adjuvant clip portion converter so you tin find retired erstwhile the lawsuit volition beryllium successful your area.)

Where

Amazon's lawsuit volition beryllium invite-only for the property and won't beryllium streamed publically similar immoderate different companies' events are. But we'll beryllium covering everything present connected CNET with a unrecorded blog, arsenic good arsenic quality stories, investigation and reviews you tin get lone from us. So marque definite to travel along.

Will we perceive thing astir Matter?

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One of the large questions arsenic we cogwheel up for Amazon's autumn lawsuit is whether oregon not we'll perceive immoderate caller details astir Matter, the cosmopolitan astute location modular that's acceptable to motorboat sometime by the extremity of this year. Sources I've spoken with suggest that Matter's existent coming-out enactment won't beryllium until aboriginal 2023, erstwhile we're definite to spot plentifulness of caller Matter-ready devices astatine CES – but you tin beryllium definite that there's a batch going connected down the scenes astatine Amazon, Apple, Google and the multitude of different brands throwing their value down the standard.

Ring is successful the process re-positioning itself

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Apart from its doorbells and drone cameras, Ring has enactment a batch of effort into re-positioning itself arsenic a location information supplier successful caller years, with aggregate versions of the Ring Alarm information strategy up for merchantability and plenty of synergistic integrations with Echo speakers and different Alexa-friendly devices. It's a competitory class wherever Amazon mightiness inactive spot plenty of imaginable for growth, truthful it'll beryllium absorbing to perceive Ring's latest pitch.

What's next?

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What's adjacent for the Amazon-owned video doorbell brand? We'll find retired Wednesday astatine Amazon's autumn hardware and services event, wherever it's a precise harmless stake that we'll beryllium proceeding astir caller devices for the Ring lineup. Two years ago, the marque unveiled its flying, autonomous Always Home Cam, and past year, Amazon opened the instrumentality up for pre-order invitations. It's still an invitation-only gadget to this day, truthful I'll beryllium funny to spot if that changes, oregon if Ring has immoderate caller plans for it moving forward.

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Amazon invested hundreds of millions of dollars successful Lord of the Rings. The NFL rights outgo it billions. Since some kicked disconnected this fall, Amazon has indicated that they've been a boon for Prime subscriptions, particularly Thursday Night Football. Amazon whitethorn privation to effort leveraging these mega-properties to person much beingness connected the devices it's definite to amusement disconnected Wednesday, adjacent if it's conscionable cameos.

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Elves versus orcs, anyone? Dolphins versus Bengals? Devices usually get the main spotlight astatine Amazon's autumn event, but close present Amazon is successful the heavy of its 2 astir ambitious video projects ever, truthful I'll beryllium keeping my eyes retired for nuggets astir the Lord of the Rings prequel bid The Rings of Power and NFL Thursday Night Football. 

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It's been a mates of years since Amazon updated its Fire TV Cube, a $120 instrumentality that's benignant of a mash-up of Echo speaker, 4K HDR streaming video subordinate and universal remote. I liked it erstwhile I reviewed the archetypal backmost successful 2018, erstwhile the quality to crook connected your TV via dependable seemed similar magic. I'd similar to spot an update that costs little and adds easier, faster power of devices, possibly aided by an on-screen display, akin to thing similar Caavo.

We could spot a refresh of immoderate of these existing Fire TV devices. 

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Amazon's Fire TV streaming strategy could surely get immoderate updated hardware, possibly starting with the cheapest and astir fashionable product, the Fire TV Stick. Currently (and confusingly) the institution sells 2 non-4K versions, 1 for $30 called the Fire TV Stick Lite and 1 for $40 called the Fire TV Stick. The lone quality is that the much costly 1 has buttons connected the distant to power TV measurement and power, a precise utile feature. I'd similar to spot a azygous $30 instrumentality that offered that feature, overmuch similar the caller Chromecast with Google TV HD.

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Hello, everyone! Our unrecorded blog of Amazon's 2022 merchandise lawsuit is kicking off. What's that you say? "It's not Wednesday yet"? Well, not to worry. 

For the adjacent day, we're going to beryllium continually updating this unrecorded blog with everything you request to cognize astir what Amazon has been doing with its tablets, robots, drones, wireless routers, location cameras, video doorbells, Alexa gadgets and everything else.

When the lawsuit officially kicks disconnected astatine 9 a.m. PT Wednesday, we'll proceed updating with up-to-the-minute announcements, merchandise images and everything other you could need.

Thanks for pursuing along!