#smart-displays

#smart-displays

The PB610 arrives in a silver-bodied, organically rounded form that feels less like a charging accessory and more like a smooth river stone that happens to have a USB-C port. At 199 yuan (roughly $29), it is making a quiet but confident case that the blobject revival is real, and it is coming for your bag. The PB610 is a 10,000mAh, 45W power bank with a built-in braided USB-C cable, a 1.47-inch smart display, and a design language that Ugreen is calling “Mini” in its marketing materials.

Smart displays fix the problem of needing information quickly without having to pull out your phone every five minutes: The Echo Show 5 lets you see the weather at a glance while you get ready, lets you video call your grandparents so they can see the kids, shows you the feeds from your security cameras when someone rings the doorbell, and lets you control your smart lights without having to look for switches.

Starting with the Echo Dot Max, it features a dual-driver design consisting of a woofer and a tweeter. The new design integrated the speaker directly into the device housing instead of a separate module, which doubles the internal air space for fuller sound. The device can also tune the sound to your surrounding and Amazon claims it can produce 3x the bass of the 5th gen Echo Dot.