Amazon sets the date for what sounds like a big fall hardware event

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TL;DRAmazon has scheduled a Devices & Services event for September 30.It’s been just about a year now since Amazon’s last major hardware launches.The invitation’s teaser imagery hints at Kindle, Fire, and Echo news.With summer rapidly drawing to a close, there’s not much time left for companies to get their 2025 hardware lineups ready to go ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season. This year’s already brought us some spectacular devices from many of our favorite brands, but others have been much quieter on that front. It’s looking like we’re about to see one of them open up with some big launches in just a couple more weeks, as Amazon sends out invites for an early fall event.Last time we dropped in on Amazon, the company was thinking all about AI, as it introduced Alexa Plus. But if we’re looking for hardware, we’ve got to dial back the clock to last October when the Kindle Colorsoft and friends debuted. And then a month later, we saw the big new Echo Show screens arrive, which would end up being the platforms for how we met Alexa Plus. And while that was all great, it’s also coming up on a year now, so it’s high time to be thinking about a hardware refresh.