- Amazon is working on an in-house OS to replace Android on some of its select products, for instance, Fire TV.
- Reports say that the process has started on the Echo Show in advance.
- Recent reports indicate that the Echo Show 5 third-generation is running a new operating system.
A couple of days later, the news is that Amazon is working on an in-house OS to replace Android on some of the select products, for instance, Fire TV, but as it turns out, that process has started on the Echo Show in advance. Check out the article for detailed information.
Amazon’s use of Android behind the curtain of multiple products is quite well-known across the brand’s tablets and Fire TV gadgets. Noticeably, many customers buy Amazon’s super-affordable hardware, particularly to use Android to modify the software, sideload apps, and many more.
Here’s what is lesser known despite all, is that Amazon has also used its modified Fire OS skin on top of Android on smart home products, which includes the Echo Show. It just seems much stronger to modify those products due to how the skin is made. However, using Android on a smart display is pretty resource-intensive, so smart displays were among the products mentioned as switching to “vega OS” in the previous reports.
The recent reports indicate that the Echo Show 5 third-generation is running a new operating system, as denoted by the “OS 1.1” manufacturer in the product’s settings menu. Meanwhile, it does not strictly confirm yet that the use of the new “Vega OS” is the most likely answer, and it at least confirms that this is no longer using Fire OS. Previously, Fire OS was straightly stated in the settings, and even a couple of years ago, it was at a version number over v6.5.
Additionally, Amazon has made changes to the open-source notices for Echo gadgets, and the latest generation of the Echo Show 5 is not compatible with Netflix, which could point to Amazon’s new OS not reaching Netflix’s minimum threshold for support yet. The quiet shift of Amazon to this new OS, which is distinctly possibly the “Vega OS” that’s been reported, somewhat mirrors Google’s move to Fuchsia on Nest Hub smart displays.
If the reports are to be believed, Google’s shift was much more technically involved, as the company replaced the operating system on active gadgets instead of just on new devices and did so without the users even noticing a few years later, which is still wild to think about. It is unclear whether Amazon has similar plans for existing Echo devices.
Since Amazon has not publicly confirmed the software difference between the latest Echo Show 5 and its other devices, let’s see exactly what changes will arrive and when.
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