We’ve already taken a take a look at what we hope to see from Amazon at its fall occasion — scheduled nearly for September 28. It’s Amazon, so undoubtedly there will likely be a ton of good home-type stuff on the prepared.

But what about Amazon Fire TV? Are there new sticks on the horizon? Maybe a brand new Fire TV Cube?

Simple reply? We don’t know. Nothing has leaked forward of the occasion.

Can we glean any perception from the present state of Fire TV gadgets? That’s one other matter altogether. So let’s check out the panorama on the subject of the large gadgets — the Fire TV Cube, and numerous Fire TV Sticks — and whether or not we will anticipate one thing new on September 28.

Fire TV Cube — final up to date in 2019

This is the most important factor we’re searching for by way of Fire TV on the September 28 occasion. The present era of Fire TV Cube is, by tech requirements, fairly historic. This mannequin — the second within the Fire TV Cube line — was launched in 2019. That truth in and of itself is sufficient to warrant hypothesis that it might be ripe for an replace.

But the Fire TV Cube is a curious beast. Unlike the less-expensive Fire TV sticks, the Cube has a microphone array in-built, and that means that you can management issues with hands-free voice instructions.

The query, then, is whether or not that function is sufficient to justify an replace to the {hardware}. For Amazon, it needs to be a comparatively straightforward matter of taking a look at gross sales and utilization numbers. Are sufficient individuals shopping for the Fire TV Cube — which retails for roughly twice as a lot because the Fire TV Stick 4K Max — to justify a brand new one? And is hands-free Alexa truly getting used sufficient to additionally justify the costlier {hardware}?

That a three-year-old mannequin stays on the market in 2022 might be one reply to that query. But if we don’t see a brand new Fire TV Cube on September 28, that might be one other reply.

The different Fire TV sticks

There are 4 variations of Amazon Fire TV Stick presently accessible. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is the latest, having been launched in October 2021. That’s adopted by the third-generation Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite (they each high out at 1080p) in 2020.

Then there’s the Fire TV Stick 4K, which dates all the best way again to 2018. That’s an attention-grabbing one as a result of when the Fire TV Stick 4K max was launched final yr, Amazon mentioned it wasn’t supplanting the Fire TV Stick 4K — although there’s completely no motive why you shouldn’t simply go forward and pay the additional $5 for the Max. (If just for the newer processor, additional RAM, and higher Wifi help.)

The fact is that any of the Fire TV Sticks may see an replace this fall. Or none of them may. Or the unique Fire TV Stick 4K may lastly be phased out. The easy truth is that we don’t know.

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