Amazon’s Bee wants to remember your day: Frontier wearable and Eclipse phone add-on

Amazon has introduced two new devices from its Bee personal AI unit: Bee Frontier, a wrist or clip-on wearable that is on sale now for $74.99, and Bee Eclipse, a magnetic phone attachment starting at $99.99, according to the official announcement.

What is new

Bee listens to conversations and turns them into summaries, to-dos, reminders and insights. Amazon describes Frontier as the successor to Bee Pioneer, the first Bee device. Frontier has a soft silicone wristband and can also be clipped to clothing. It comes in Lavender, Sage and Onyx, carries an IP67 water-resistance rating, charges over USB-C and lasts up to seven days per charge. Two microphones with noise filtering are meant to pick out speech in busy places such as restaurants or open offices.

Eclipse is a new form factor. Amazon says it is roughly the size of a credit card, sticks magnetically to the back of a phone and runs for more than 21 days on one charge. Its pitch is phone calls: switch it on while planning a trip with relatives, for instance, and it captures the logistics afterward. Amazon says users are prompted to get call participants’ permission each time a recording starts. Eclipse is listed as “available soon” in Silver, Midnight, Honey and Blush.

Both devices have a single on/off button and an LED that shows when they are active. Frontier can also be set to shut itself off after a chosen stretch of silence, such as 5 or 15 minutes.

Software, Alexa+ and shopping

Summaries appear in the Bee mobile app and in a new desktop app, with templates for cases like lectures, care plans or brainstorms. Bee can connect to Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple HealthKit and a photo library. After a call or meeting it can list action items, draft follow-up emails or create calendar invites.

The notable addition is a pair of links into Amazon’s own services. Connected to Alexa+, Bee lets users ask an Echo device for a meeting summary, check to-dos or recall the title of a book a friend mentioned. Amazon says the Echo uses voice ID to recognize the user before sharing Bee content. Connected to Amazon.com, Bee can surface items a user mentioned in conversation as product recommendations on the Amazon homepage and in the Bee apps.

Privacy design and pricing

Amazon says both devices run on Bee Private Compute, an isolated processing environment “where no one, including Amazon, can access your data.” Audio is processed in real time and deleted afterward, transcripts are encrypted with keys created and controlled by the device, and users can delete transcripts and summaries at any time.

Buying a device includes conversation summaries, recaps and a 14-day memory. A Bee Pro subscription, at $11.99 per month, adds unlimited recent summaries, the Alexa+ and Amazon.com integrations, third-party app connections, suggested to-dos, daily memories, a chat assistant, templates and the desktop app. New customers get 30 days of Pro free.

Why it matters

Bee’s new hardware lands in a category that is consolidating around big platforms. Meta has acquired Limitless, maker of a clip-on pendant that records conversations and produces searchable transcripts, and Techstrong.ai reports that Limitless will stop selling the pendant to new customers, with current owners asked to accept updated privacy terms. Financial terms were not disclosed. Amazon, which bought Bee in 2025, is taking the opposite route for now: it is still selling the hardware and widening its reach.

On price, Frontier at $74.99 sits well below the independent competition. Plaud’s NotePin, a wearable recorder, launched at $169, according to Notebookcheck, more than double Amazon’s price, and Plaud also sells transcription plans. Amazon can afford a cheap device because the real product is the ecosystem. The Alexa+ link and the Amazon.com recommendations, both limited to the $11.99 monthly Pro tier, are things a standalone recorder maker cannot offer.

That is also the competitive risk. Plaud-style recorders are positioned as single-purpose tools for meetings and notes. Bee is being designed as an input channel for a retailer and a voice assistant, which Meta may pursue with Limitless inside its wearables group, though neither company has said so in the sources reviewed here. For buyers, the cheaper entry price comes with the question of whose platform the conversations ultimately feed.