New Amazon Fire TV announced with 4K streaming, Alexa and is up for pre-order

Amazon came out of the gates this morning with a slew off announcements regarding nearly everything in their product line up. Among the announcements is a newly beefed up Amazon Fire TV. The set-top box has been beefed up with 75% more processing powers that is provided by a MediaTek 64-bit quad-core processor. It offers up a dedicated GPU as well as 2GB of RAM to help. It sits with 8GB of internal storage, but does offer up support for expandable storage up to 128GB.

Along with the spec bumps Amazon also added in Alexa support. Alexa is the brain behind the Echo. Basically she is a cloud-based voice command search/action companion. She is easily accessible via the voice remote and voice gaming controller.

Amazon has also beefed up the Wi-Fi with 802.11ac MIMO for added throughput and range. Which will certainly help with its ability to now stream 4K content.

The new Fire TV does sound quite a bit better than its predecessor. Amazon kept the pricing the same with the new Fire TV landing for $99.99. They are also offering up a Gaming Edition package, which includes Amazon Fire TV, Game Controller, a 32GB microSD card, and two games—Disney’s Ducktales and Yacht Club’s Shovel Knight—all for $139.99. Not a bad deal.

Hit the link to get a pre-order in for the New Amazon Fire TV, which is expected to start shipping by October 5th.

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