Amazon appears to be readying a cheaper version of its popular
Echo Dot speaker, if a
Tweet that showed up briefly on the company's Twitter account this morning is anything to go by.
The voice-controlled
Smart Speaker that houses Amazon's personal assistant Alexa was an**unced back in March, costing $89.99, and is a smaller, palm-sized expansion to the company's flagship
Echo product that lets users expand the capabilities of the latter device to different rooms of their house.
**w it seems
Amazon is almost set to offer a cheaper "all-new" version of the Dot at $49.99. The tweet, which was quickly
Deleted from the company's Twitter account but picked up by some users, linked to Amazon's existing page for the
Echo Dot, which is currently
sold out.
Apparently **t? @amazonecho: Introducing the all-new Echo Dot. Add Alexa to any room - **w for just $49.99. https://t.co/AQkwY5xbHh/s/Z-sj
— Darrin (@Indypodcaster) September 12, 2016
Recode queried the
Deleted Tweet with
Amazon spokespeople but they declined to comment, suggesting the pre-emptive
Tweet was a genuine accident.
It's **t the first social media an**uncement blunder we've seen this month. Last week, during Apple's "
See You on the 7th" event in San Francisco, Apple's re-animated Twitter account began posting video clips of the new
iPhone 7 complete with pre-order links, before the phone had even been mentioned on stage.
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