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Amazon has just launched five new products as part of its Blink security camera lineup, expanding their resolution, adding a spotlight, and jazzing up their hardware format. The Blink Mini 4K+, priced at $79.99, is the company’s first 4K security camera that now goes all the way up to 4K video capture quality and offers a 115-degree horizontal field of view.
The build is IP65-rated, and it also gets dual-band Wi-Fi 6 support for better network coverage. For users who pay for the accompanying subscription service, they also get access to two-way audio, AI-generated event summaries, and Smart Alerts with person and vehicle detection.
Next in line is the Blink Spotlight Cam 2K+, which is the company’s first battery-powered spotlight camera. Amazon says that the spotlight kicks into action as soon as it detects motion, while video resolution is capped at 2K. This one is priced at $109.99 for buyers in the US.
The Blink Mini Pan-Tilt 2K+ is the brand’s first pan-tilt-zoom camera, suited for both indoors and outdoors, complete with night vision and two-way audio support. Priced at $49.99, it offers a 350-degree pan and a 115-degree tilt range. And just like its Spotlight-series sibling, it also enables person and vehicle motion detection with a subscription.
For long-range coverage, the company has introduced the Blink Outdoor 2K XR+ priced at $149.99, alongside the Blink Frontier XR+ camera, which costs $199.99 in the US. The former captures videos at up to 2K resolution with a 115-degree field of view and can cover a distance of up to 2,700 feet within a straight line of sight.
The latter, according to Blink, is its farthest-reaching camera yet. When paired with the Sync Module XR+, it offers a line-of-sight coverage of up to 7,000 feet. All five of Blink’s new cameras are now up for pre-order for buyers in the US, and a bunch of other markets as well.
