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Amazon launches Bee recording devices with monthly fee
Amazon releases two wearable recorders and puts the software behind a paywall, but skips Europe over privacy laws.
In brief
Amazon releases two wearable recorders and puts the software behind a paywall, but skips Europe over privacy laws. Amazon launched the seventy four ninety nine dollar Bee Frontier wristband and ninety nine ninety nine dollar Bee Eclipse phone attachment with an eleven ninety nine monthly subscription, but neither…
Amazon launches two recording devices
Amazon released the seventy four ninety nine dollar Bee Frontier wristband and the ninety nine ninety nine dollar Bee Eclipse phone attachment. Both record and summarise your day.
Frontier is lighter, Eclipse has no date
Frontier is lighter than the wristband it replaces, rated IP sixty seven, and good for seven days with dual microphones and noise filtering.
Subscription unlocks advanced features
Bee Pro costs eleven ninety nine a month and adds unlimited summaries, integrations with Amazon dot com, Alexa plus, Gmail, Google Calendar and Outlook, and a desktop app that records Zoom calls.
Europe blocked by privacy laws
Neither device is on sale in Europe, where recording another person's private speech is a criminal offence in Germany. Germany punishes this with up to three years imprisonment.
The short version
Amazon launched the seventy four ninety nine dollar Bee Frontier wristband and ninety nine ninety nine dollar Bee Eclipse phone attachment with an eleven ninety nine monthly subscription, but neither device is sold in Europe where recording private speech is illegal.
