Amazon's Bee debuts Frontier and Eclipse AI devices with $12/month Pro plan
Amazon-owned Bee announced two always-listening AI devices: the $74.99 Bee Frontier, a wristband-or-clip gadget available today, and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized unit that magnetically attaches to the back of a phone and is listed as "coming soon." Both record everyday conversations and produce summaries, transcripts, insights and to-dos; the free tier includes summaries, recaps and 14 days of memory, while the Frontier offers about seven days of battery life with IP67 water resistance and the Eclipse about 21 days. The $11.99-per-month Bee Pro subscription adds unlimited summaries, suggested to-dos, daily memories, a personal chat assistant, conversation templates, third-party app integrations and a desktop app, plus optional Amazon and Alexa+ integrations that can surface shopping suggestions from conversations. Amazon says the devices use a "Private Compute" architecture that does not store raw audio and encrypts transcripts with keys the user's device controls.
It is Amazon's first Bee hardware refresh since the acquisition, testing a listening-device-plus-subscription model inside the Alexa ecosystem while keeping wearable-recording privacy questions in play.