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Amazon’s next Echo will reportedly compete more closely with HomePod sound quality and style

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/homepod.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500&h=750)</div><p>The sound quality of the HomePod has been a key focus for Apple in its marketing for the smart speaker device, openly comparing it to the inferior audio of the Amazon Echo (http://amzn.to/2thkLKm) at WWDC. However, the HomePod isn’t launching until the end of the year and Amazon isn’t standing still.</p>
<p>Engadget sources report (https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/12/amazon-echo-homepod/) that the next Echo will include multiple tweeters inside, which should result in a dramatic improvement in sound. It also seems like the device will look more like a HomePod than the current Echo, substituting hard plastic cylinder for ‘cloth-like’ rounded shell.</p>
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