The company Yandex has announced the beginning of sales of its first device of its own design — smart column called Yandex.Station.
The first batch of devices will go to the store and the Museum of Yandex in Moscow. Sales will start on 10 July at the time of store opening at 10 am.
Yandex.Station from the first batch sold only in offline, but soon the device can be ordered on the Internet. The rest of the week taking pre orders for the Station appears on Yandex.Market. As promised, the company paid for on the website, the device will ship to buyer within 90 days and for free deliver to any region of Russia. Smart column is in Yandex.Market 9990 rubles.
We Will Remind, Yandex.The station is positioned as a powerful media platform with voice assistant Alice who understand Russian-language voice commands.
Yandex.The station can perform various tasks, to do reminders, set alarms, check the weather, news, play music, find video and display it on the TV. The device provides an array of seven microphones to “hear” commands from across the room and sound accompaniment. All microphones can be switched off by pressing one button.
Inside the Station there are five acoustic elements: two tweeters with a power of 10 watt and a diameter of 20 mm, single woofer with an output of 30 watts and diameter of 85 mm, two passive radiators with a diameter of 95 mm. Dimensions are 140х140х230 mm, total power is 50 watts, frequency range — from 50 to 20 000 Hz signal-to-noise ratio — 96 dB. The device has Wi-Fi module can also be connected to the phone via Bluetooth and listen to music from it, without direct access to the Internet. To the TV it’s connected with HDMI.