Echo Frames (2nd Gen) | Smart audio glasses with Alexa | Quartz Gray with black sunglass lenses
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Color: Quartz Gray with black sunglass lenses
Style: Sunglasses
Configuration: Echo Frames
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- Hands-free with Alexa - Make calls, listen to podcasts or Audible books, set reminders, add to your to-do lists, get the news, or control your smart home.
- Open-ear audio with Auto Volume - Echo Frames direct sound to your ears while minimizing what others around you can hear. Plus, with Auto Volume they automatically adjust volume based on the noise level of your environment in real time.
- VIP Filter - Customize which notifications to receive from the contacts and apps on your phone that matter most to you. Top Contact option will enable calling to your top VIP with just a single press and hold of the touchpad to give you a more convenient and seamless way to stay in touch.
- All-day wear - Echo Frames are lightweight and comfortable. They are IPX4 splash-resistant for water and sweat and are available in prescription ready frames, polarized sunglass lenses with UV400 protection or blue light filtering lenses.
- Battery life - Get over 2 hours of talk time, Alexa interactions, and media playback over a 14-hour day. Or, up to 4 hours of nonstop listening on a full charge.
- Does even more - Supports access to Google Assistant and Siri from a compatible device.
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Update up front after using Gen 2 frames: - still consider whether you want to buy expensive lenses to put in these frames. The frames themselves aren't all that great as glasses (plastic is shiny and doesn't feel sturdy, and the style might not work for you. - Upgraded battery life is much much better. Lasts a full 12 hour shift, when I have a bunch of 1-2 minute phone calls all night long. I estimate a combined 12h standby and 2hrs talk before the battery dies. You still need to buy extra charge cables to have one in your car and one at home at least. Very convenient to charge while driving if you have a USB port close to your body (i.e. in your center console) - Still a pain in the butt if you have any FireTV or echo show devices in your house. No matter what I or my wife or kids do, everytime anyone says Alexa, my frames take over and are unable to control the echo show or the TV. I have to remember to turn off the glasses. It would be much better if I could just leave the "always listening" feature off and tap the button on the frames to then speak a command. - auto off when you put the lenses down of the table does save battery, but then they don't turn back on when you put them on... You have to consciously turn them back on. This is a bigger problem than you'd think. Whenever a machine does something without alerting you and then you have to know/remember to undo it, it's annoying. This is way more annoying than if it would just save battery by leaving the always-listen feature off and require a button push every single time - you would get used to that. - Automatic volume function greatly improves the privacy and usability in noisy vs. quiet environments. Well done Amazon. This gets you a bump to 4 stars. There is still a strange bug in that if you are using auto volume, then you want to override by tapping volume up on your frames, it cycles down to zero volume first, rather than starting at the current volume. This confused me the first few times it happened, and I though I'd hung up on the other person. Seems it would make more sense to just temporarily override starting at the current volume, until you're done listening to the current thing, or when this phone call is done. - Amazon reduced the touch sensitivity, it seems. That has helped with accidental touches. But really, you just need to learn to carefully only touch your frames by pinching from above and below when you put them on/take them off. Or you can put them on by grabbing them by the ear bends and wrapping them around your ears, rather than by grabbing them close to the hinges. Honestly, now I'm annoyed that the touch/swipe seems to not work as well. This is a balance, and it would be good if they had a setting you could change. -PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, LET US CHANGE THE WAKE WORD! For goodness sakes a;ready. - Voice calling works much better now. - seems like the sound quality is better, but it's hard to say. Still not as good as proper earbuds, but that isn't what you're buying these for. - I haven't even tried SMS on the 2nd gen frames. It was such a bad experience on the 1st gen, (not that it works well with google, either), that I've pretty much accepted that hands free voice texting is not in my near future. I still voice type, but open up my phone to control the experience. ORIGINAL REVIEW (Based on 1st gen echo frames) I bought the first gen echo frames. Because of Pandemic I didn't get the chance to get lenses in them until later in 2020. My lenses are kind of expensive (around $400) because of my particular vision issues. While I love the promise of this device, there are serious issues with the 1st gen that make them frustrating to keep using. I originally wrote this review in a state of frustration that Amazon overlooked me as an early user for the $70 upgrade to gen2. I paid full price to upgrade to gen 2 and will edit this review once I have a chance to use the new ones. I've edited this review to remove the parts motivated by my frustration with Amazon, as it has nothing to do with the product itself. As part of that, I increased from 2 to 3 stars. Amazon did call me after my initial 2 star review,, but to their credit they did not offer to refund all or part of my 2nd gen purchase price, which I view as an important sign of their integrity in this review process. However, the cost of having to buy the next generation and how it irritated me to now be more than $600 into a pair of glasses is a lesson to any of you: Consider whether you want to wait for the next generation to come out if you have expensive lenses. Review of the product: I really enjoy having the always-on notifications, and it's really great being able to have a phone call while still being able to hear things around you, and without having to put earbuds into your ear first or walking around with earbuds in constantly. The freedom really is very very nice. There is an issue with accidental touching of the side of the frames causing notifications to be dismissed or announced again, or for playback to stop/start randomly, or for you to hang up on someone. You can't take your glasses off to clean them during a phone call, for example or you're probably going to hang up. When you have the volume turned up full, the sound is definitely audible and clear to people near you. Not necessarily a bad thing if you want to include someone next to you in the phone call. When you have it at about a 2 or a 3 (which is very audible to the wearer in a relatively quiet room), people around you will not be able to understand the conversation, but they will probably hear a faint something. Just be aware to keep the volume as low as you can for privacy reasons. Obviously if you keep it just above the level that is clear to you, then people around you won't be able to eavesdrop. (I tested this feature on someone else's face). These are almost unusable in your home if you have echo or alexa devices. The wake work on the frames cannot be changed from Alexa, and you can't disable the always-listening feature without turning the frames completely off. Not only is this a battery drain, but if you ask you FireTV, for example, to open Netflix, the frames respond and won't allow the FireTV to receive the command. You have to turn your frames off by holding down the power button for 3 seconds before you can speak a command to your fireTV. There is no way I could find to link your frames to control a specific TV (not that this would be good in my house anyway, since we have 3 FireTV's). The only other choice is to change the wake word on your other devices. Currently I have my FireTVs responding to "Alexa" and my echo show responding to "echo." This is a good solution for us because you use them for different things. To integrate my frames into the household, I'd have to change my household devices to wake with "amazon" or "computer" in order to deconflict with my echo frames. This is a pain in the butt for the rest of the family to have to learn new ways of addressing the devices just so I can wear these frames, and my wife asked me not to do it. Amazon should allow you to change the wake word on the frames, or allow you to disable the always-listening feature. It would actually be my preference to just tap the alexa button on my frames to get it to listen for commands, just like the button on the fireTV remote. It already has this feature (tap the power button once and the blue light comes on and you can speak a command without saying "Alexa." I do this most of the time anyway, because when I'm out and about, I don't want to be saying "alexa, call john" when I'm walking around a store or at work. I really don't want the always-listening feature in almost any situation. I'm sure a lot of you would agree. The battery life is abysmal. I had charged to 100% today while I was sleeping, then got right on a zoom meeting using the echo frames. It was an hour long meeting. I was at 10% battery at the end of the meeting. So you have 1 hour talk time before you have to charge. I work 12 hour shifts, and even if I don't talk at all, I have to charge at least once per shift, usually around hour 10. The charge cable is a proprietary magnetic cable, which it has to be since you're going to have to charge this while wearing it sometimes (because of the poor battery life), unless you carry a spare set of glasses to wear while it's charging - which defeats the main purpose of these. So, you have to either buy multiple cables to keep them at work/home/car, or you have to be extra sure to carry it with you in your pocket all the time and never accidentally leave it at work. This requires too much minding for a device whose main appeal is convenience. Commands for phone control (galaxy note 10+ on latest android version) are really poor. If I say "alexa, call john smith," about 1/2 times it actually makes the phone call when I have the phone turned on in front of me. If the phone is in my pocket, it's about 1/5 of the time, and it takes 10-20 seconds to start the call. And there's absolutely zero confirmation that it's working during that 10-20 seconds. It should say "calling john smith" to let you know the command was received. Since it doesn't, I don't keep tapping the command button to restate the command... Hands free phone control is about as good as bixby or google assistant were when they first came out... maybe worse. I'll update this after I use the gen2. Note: I'm using a galaxy note 10+. SMS messaging is also extremely spotty. I activated SMS control within the alexa app and gave it access to everything it wanted, so that's not the problem. The problem is it just doesn't seem to even recognize I'm trying to send a text. 99% of the times I tried it, it failed for one reason or another. A few times it recognized my text message, but just never sent it. I'm using google messaging app for my default text messaging app. (By the way, I'm a native US english speaker without any speech pathology, and with a southern california accent). Regarding charging: There is a substantial delay after you connect the charge cable before you know anything is happening. The red light inside the frame comes on after about 3 seconds and there is a quiet chime from the speakers, and then several seconds go by before the charging light on the temple arm comes on. The problem with this is most of the time you're charging it with the glasses off, so you can't hear or see the indicator that the cable has connected. For weeks I thought I had a bad charge cable and kept fiddling with it and flipping it around, because I'd connect it and there would be no indication (so I thought) that it was charging for a good 10 seconds. There should be an immediate blinking light or something inform you that the charge cable has been correctly engaged. And it should be visible when you aren't wearing the glasses right away. It is fairly convenient to charge the glasses while you are wearing them. It would be nice if you could tap the temple or a button while it is charging to have it tell you how full the battery is if you're wearing while charging. Currently you have to disconnect the cable, wait for it to connect to the phone via bluetooth, and then it will announce "connected... battery at 60%." If you have notifications pending, they will play immediately when you reconnect, and sometimes they will play over the battery percentage alert. If you're driving and don't want to look at your phone, you have to reconnect the cable, wait for the charging handshake to happen and for the light in your eye to turn off, then disconnect the cable again and let it reconnect so you can hear the percentage charge again. Annoying. It is very nice when you are wearing the frames and charging that sometimes the sound output still works. It's weird when you're charging with your glasses on the table and it doesn't work. Since it's obviously possible to use them while charging, it's weird they don't make it work consistently, and recognize when they're being worn vs. on the table. Maybe gen2 will have this feature. It's very sweet to be able to use the frames while they are charging. Amazon should figure out how to make this work everytime. Manufacturers have mostly fixed this with watches and earbuds and cars - disabling the audio stream to a device when you don't want it and enabling it when you do... Amazon just needs to fix it in software for the frames. Build quality: Not gonna lie, there is a little creakiness to these frames. Maybe that's related to the way my optician installed the lenses, but they don't feel sturdy like many other glasses with similar thick frames would. I'm definitely going to take care not to fall asleep in these frames. Also, the glasses don't fold completely shut. The bulky temple pieces hit each other. It feels like you could force them to fold completely shut and break them - and that's probably whey Amazon sends them in such a huge case - so you don't close them all the way. Sound quality: again, this is said to be better in Gen2 than Gen 1. I'll update with the info. There is absolutely no bass. But the sound quality is very good for phone calls, listening to audiobooks/podcasts, etc. You won't want to use these for listening to music or watching anything but basic youtube videos on your phone. But for those applications, it is so so nice to just pick up your phone and start using it, and magically you have the sound right in your ears without bothering others with it - all while still hearing things around you. Anyway, you'll want to keep your good earbuds in your pocket for when you want to listen to music or watch StarWars on your phone. Altogether, the promise of this tech is excellent. I can afford to buy another pair to continue with the experiment, and I'm glad it appears the lenses from gen 1 will fit in gen 2. Hopefully they'll come up with some software fixes to improve integration with phones and with the rest of the echo ecosystem.
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Reviewed in the United States πΊπΈ on December 23, 2020 by TFMethane
I purchased the first generation Echo Frames back in February of 2020, and upgraded to the 2nd generation about a year later. My review will be divided into three parts: aesthetics, functionality and reservations. 1. Aesthetics. I initially was concerned about how these frames would look. In particular, I was afraid they would be bulky - especially the temples (i.e. the part of the glasses connecting the lenses to your ears), where most of the electronics are. Have no fear on this point - I've been wearing these frames for the better part of a year, and not only has no one ever said anything to me about them (unless I start interacting with Alexa), but I've never even noticed anyone looking at them funny. I think this may be because one tends to look directly at another person's face, thereby losing the depth perception that would make the temples more noticeable. The frames themselves are inoffensive. While they may not be for everyone, they will look fine on most people, regardless of age or gender. Think of them as new-nerdy-chic. 2. Functionality. Overall, I have been very pleased with the functionality of my frames. I use them primarily for phone calls and for listening to music, podcasts or baseball games in situations were I need to be able to hear what is going on around me. The phone call quality is excellent: not only can I hear exceptionally well, but I've been told by those on the other end of the line that they can hear me better than when I am speaking directly into my phone. Upon a moment's reflection, this isn't hard to understand. The frames sit on your nose, an inch or two above your mouth. The mics have been well placed to take advantage of this proximity and - unlike when you're holding a phone in your hand - their placement with respect to your mouth is not constantly changing. In general, listening to music, podcasts or baseball has also been a positive experience. You shouldn't expect Bose-quality surround sound, and the frames definitely won't bring out the best of, eg. Yo-Yo Ma, but the sound quality is fine - especially for podcasts and baseball games. In most situations, I can hear whatever I am listening to without entirely tuning out the outside world and without everyone around me hearing it too (something I wish I had 15 years ago, when I was working in a cubicle next to my supervisor). This is especially useful for me now: since the pandemic began, I've been at home with my 4 year old kid most of the time. I can't afford to have earbuds in when I'm watching him, since I need to be able to respond to him and to hear him when I can't see him. My Echo frames allow me to listen to the news or make a phone call while watching him at the playground, going on a walk, or doing things around the house. I also find them useful for outdoor activities near the home. For instance, I have a flock of chickens. I try to let them out in the yard as often as possible, but need to watch them closely to protect them from coyotes and hawks. My frames allow me to interact with my wife by phone or listen to a podcast while also being able to hear, eg., my chickens' warning cry when they see a threat. Very useful. I have found the frames less useful in more urban settings. I live in greater Boston, in one of those quaint small New England towns 10 minutes from the city. When I am in the town center, I find the frames more or less useless. Why? When a car passes me on the sidewalk, I can't hear whatever I'm listening to. I can turn up the volume - but once the car has passed, the volume is ludicrously loud. I can decrease the volume - but traffic is such that a car will pass every half a minute or so. So to use them effectively in this setting, I'd basically have to keep my finger on the volume button at all times - which would make me look kind of like Cyclops from the X-Men right before he blasts someone. Perhaps I would find this less annoying in Boston proper, where a steadier flow of traffic would allow me to keep the volume on max all the time. In terms of battery life: I find I can wear my glasses all day, using them intermittently, without any difficulty. In terms of continuous use: I can listen to a baseball game or talk on the phone for about 2 hours before I start getting a low-battery warning. Overall, I find this quite satisfactory. 3. Reservations. As noted above, I find the frames more or less useless in situations where the background noise varies in its intensity from moment to moment. This may in part be because my own hearing isn't great. I also find myself thinking a few easy-to-add features would significantly improve the Echo Frames. A reading light would be really useful for, eg. reading in bed without disturbing your partner. And a find-my-glasses feature would be much appreciated. This latter feature represents a level of functionality that the engineers at Amazon have not yet explored: features designed for when you're *not* actively using your glasses. Overall, I am pleased enough with my glasses that I went ahead and purchased a Gen 2 set. I think they are ideal for parents, for folks whose work spaces prohibit listening to the radio, and for certain outdoor activities. If, however, you're going to use them primarily in an environment where the level of background noise is constantly varying, you should prepare to be disappointed. ***UPDATE ON PRIVACY 03/02/2021*** A lot of reviewers have expressed concerns over privacy. While there are very legitimate privacy concerns with respect to any Echo (Google, Facebook, Apple) device, as well as with respect to the Alexa app or, for that matter, most other apps that are *already* running on your phone, I fail to see how the frames by themselves pose any greater privacy risk than just the Alexa app, since not only can you turn off, mute, or disconnect the frames at any point, but Alexa is not actually integrated into them. Rather, the frames communicate with the Alexa app on your phone; without the app, they are glorified earbuds. So any privacy concerns - which are, to be clear, real enough - are more properly addressed to the app than to the frames. To claim, then, that the frames allow "24/7" tracking is both untrue and laughable (the frames only have an 8-10 hour battery life); the concern animating this misplaced criticism is one that could be legitimately raised against many, many apps and is, ultimately, an argument for not having a smart phone. For those who have already integrated smart phones into their daily lives, the privacy cat may well be already out of the bag... ****UPDATE 04/12/22**** I updated to the gen 2 frames, and was pleased with them until recently. "Until recently" because the frames have become increasingly unreliable. Over and over again, when I use the wake word "Alexa," I am advised I need to unlock my phone. This despite the fact that my phone is (a) unlocked and (b) remains unlocked when connected to the frames. This appears to be a problem affecting many of Amazon's wearables (eg. Echo Buds). Until it is resolved, the frames don't accomplish their number one function, namely, allowing one to interact with the Alexa assistant. I have, for this reason, changed my 5 star review to a 2 star review. If this problem persists, I'll change my review to a single star. I strongly urge Amazon to rectify this problem asap. Until then, these frames are not worth the investment. ****UPDATE 07/06/22**** Amazon appears to have corrected the problem with its wearables thinking the phone is locked, so I have restored two stars to my review.
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Reviewed in the United States πΊπΈ on December 10, 2020 by Ethan Wells