The e-commerce giant, Amazon, is now finally bringing the Echo Dot and the Prime music service to India later this year. Amazon Echo dot is hardware device from Amazon which is a smaller version of the Amazon Echo, and it is a hands-free, voice-controlled device that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices and do much more. Prime Music is a service offered by the e-commerce website, where Prime members can stream over 2 million songs ad-free, listen on any Echo device, and take their music anywhere with offline listening.
The Echo Dot is currently available in the United States and few other markets. It supports a set of music services which are not going to make it to India anytime soon. The music services include Spotify and Pandora. The company will unveil the Echo Dot and the Prime Music service somewhere in October. Echo Dot's big brother Amazon Echo won't make it to the country this time, may be this will be introduced later. Reports suggest that the company has been testing the Echo Dot for a month now at its office in Bangalore.
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However, the Echo Dot, in India will support Amazon Prime Music and Gaana, as per the reports. We can rely on Gaana as it is already supported on the company's Fire TV Stick which launched in April in India. Though services like Google Play Music and Apple Music are available in India, sadly Amazon Echo doesn't support these music services.
Echo Dot, in the US, is currently priced at $50 which roughly converts to Rs. 3,200. Price is a bit of a confusion right now, as a recent report claimed the price of the Echo Dot would be around Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 6000. But recently Gadgets 360 from its sources, claimed the price would be under Rs.3,000 in India.
As we discuss the prices, Prime Music would not have a separate cost and most probably will be included in the Amazon Prime subscription package. Amazon India charges Rs. 499 for the Prime subscription, where they provide special discounts, faster deliveries and Prime Movies.
