Amazon launches $74.99 Bee Frontier, says $99.99 Eclipse is coming soon

Amazon launched the $74.99 Bee Frontier wearable and introduced the Bee Eclipse phone attachment on October 15. Frontier is available now through Amazon.com, while Amazon says Eclipse is coming soon starting at $99.99 and has not given a release date.

Both devices process conversations to produce summaries and suggested actions. The no-additional-cost Bee service includes conversation processing, summaries and 14 days of history. Amazon.com shopping recommendations and the Alexa+ connection require Bee Pro, which costs $11.99 a month after a 30-day trial included with each new device.

Frontier can be worn on the wrist or clipped to clothing. Amazon says it has two microphones with noise filtering, IP67 water resistance, USB-C charging and up to seven days of battery life. It comes in Onyx, Lavender and Sage. A button starts or stops processing, an LED shows when the device is operating, and users can set processing to stop automatically after a period of silence.

Eclipse is a magnetic phone attachment that Amazon describes as about the size of a credit card. It has more than 21 days of battery life, according to the company. When activated, it is designed to process phone calls and in-person conversations, producing summaries, insights, action items and suggested to-dos. Amazon says Eclipse prompts the user to obtain permission from call participants each time recording starts. The planned colors are Silver, Midnight, Honey and Blush.

The Bee Pro plan also adds unlimited history, daily summaries, a Mac and Windows desktop app, conversation templates, advanced insights and connections to services including Gmail, Outlook, calendars, photos and health apps. Amazon says the Amazon.com connection uses insights drawn from conversations to show shopping recommendations on its homepage and in Bee’s mobile and desktop apps. Connecting Bee to Alexa+ lets users request summaries, insights and to-dos by voice.

The Bee launch adds conversation-processing consumer hardware to Amazon’s AI portfolio, which also includes managed access to GPT-6.1 Sol through Amazon Bedrock for AWS customers.

Amazon says Bee processes audio in real time and deletes it rather than storing it. The company says transcripts and derived content are encrypted with keys created on and controlled by the user’s device, then handled inside attested confidential virtual machines designed to prevent Amazon operators from accessing plaintext outside the authorized path. Those are Amazon’s privacy claims and were not independently observed in operation. Users can delete transcripts and summaries, revoke permissions and choose whether to share data, according to the company. Amazon also says an Echo uses voice ID when a user connects Bee to Alexa.

A Trail of Bits security assessment commissioned by Amazon examined Bee Private Compute with source-code access. The firm identified 21 issues, including seven rated high severity and seven rated medium, and said all findings had been resolved or mitigated by its July 1 fix review. Trail of Bits said the agent sandbox and integrations were experimental and unavailable to regular users during the review, recommended feature-specific audits as integrations are enabled, and did not conduct a full analysis of the underlying AWS Nitro System.