# Amazon adds camera to Echo Studio speaker

> Amazon's premium smart speaker now has a built-in camera for room monitoring and video calls, with new audio features and a higher price tag.
- Title: Amazon adds camera to Echo Studio speaker · The Verge
- Summary: Amazon's premium smart speaker now has a built-in camera for room monitoring and video calls, with new audio features and a higher price tag. Amazon added a…
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- Source: The Verge — https://theverge.com/tech/1020241/amazon-echo-studio-home-camera-dot-smart-home-hub
- Author: Jay Peters
- Published: 2026-10-28T12:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: amazon, echo studio, echo dot, smart speakers, smart home hub, camera, alexa, technology, culture
## Echo Studio gets a camera
Amazon announced a new Echo Studio with Home Camera today. The built-in camera monitors rooms while you are away and shows things to Alexa for video calls on Fire TV devices.
## New audio features tune to your space
The Echo Studio with Home Camera includes Advanced Room Adaptation, which continuously tunes sound to the space the speaker is in. Adaptive Volume raises or lowers volume depending on where you are in a room.
## New Echo Studio costs two hundred forty nine ninety nine dollars
The Echo Studio with Home Camera will cost two hundred forty nine ninety nine dollars and come in graphite.Amazon will still sell the standard Echo Studio at its two hundred nineteen ninety nine dollar price.
## Echo Dot gets smart home hub
The updated Echo Dot is powered by Amazon's custom-designed AZ three chip and has a fourth microphone.It now includes a built-in smart home hub supporting Zigbee, Matter, and Thread, plus a built-in Eero Wi-Fi extender.
## Echo Dot available now in four colours
The updated Echo Dot is available starting today for ninety nine ninety nine dollars in graphite, glacier white, agave green, and coral pink.
## Key takeaway

Amazon added a camera to its Echo Studio speaker and updated the Echo Dot with a smart home hub, announced at its October twenty twenty-six hardware event.