Amazon’s Fire TV Cube is an Echo, streaming box, and universal remote in one

Combining an Echo speaker and the Fire TV into a single gadget seems like a very obvious, inevitable move for Amazon to make. Today, that unification is happening, and the end result is the $120 Fire TV Cube. Preorders begin now and Prime members can buy it for only $89.99 if they order on either June 7th or 8th.

It pairs Alexa's assistant smarts and hands-free voice commands together with Amazon's popular 4K streaming device. But the Fire TV Cube is designed to be much more than a set-top box that can also tell you the weather or control your smart home accessories. The third key aspect of this product — and the most surprising one — is that it's also a universal remote.

From the top, it looks more like an Echo than...

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