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Amazon cancels the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition’s main feature — focusing on photos


The Echo Show 8 Photos Edition is now just an Echo Show 8.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Last year, Amazon launched the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition that could default to displaying owners’ favorite pictures — as long as they paid an extra fee. Now it looks like that plan has been abandoned, with the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition and its accompanying $2 / month PhotosPlus subscription nearly erased from Amazon’s website.

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