Gadgetory

the hello doorbell represents a new product category for nests moving on from smart thermostats and cameras the new hello doorbell will send a notification to your phone when someone walks up and presses the button it can also store video it will store three hours of still images for free in a coastal storm about a week of video for a $10 monthly fee with its person detection technology it can differentiate a person from say a car or a dog in case somebody comes up to your door you want to know if somebody's there it also has a familiar faces feature that if you subscribe to the video service it can also tell from different people around your house that show up at your door regularly so the doorbell communicates over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi so you should be able to access it remotely from pretty much anywhere and because it's a wired connection you don't need to worry about battery life running out in the future the doorbell will also communicate with a Yale smart lock we don't quite exactly know how that interactions gonna work yet neces they're still working on it but you can imagine some sort of thing where somebody comes up to the doorbell and then you get a notification in the app that will let you unlock the door remotely so just seeing it here in the demo room the camera actually looks pretty good in the app it takes a nice high resolution image and even if you're standing off to the side of the door the camera can still pick up your whole body in front of it your face does look pretty clear like a lot of other doggerel cameras of course it also has two-way audio one neat feature here though is that has some pre-recorded voice messages so say you're somewhere where you can't necessarily have that live remote conversation with somebody through the app you can hit a button to send a pre-recorded message to tell somebody to say leave a package for example Nessa isn't talking about the price of the doorbell yet but it does say will release in q1 or 2018 so we'll look for more information then