Amazon unveiled 5 new Blink cameras, including a 4K model that caught my eye

ZDNET’s cardinal takeaways

• Blink conscionable announced 5 caller cameras, ranging from $50 to $200.
• Two extended-range cameras scope up to 7,000 feet successful unfastened areas.
• The lineup besides includes Blink’s archetypal 4K wired camera.

2026 has been a twelvemonth of large upgrades for Amazon’s Blink enactment of easy-to-install location surveillance cameras, archetypal with 2K solution and present with 4K and almighty extended-range models that situation what we tin expect from the devices.

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The 5 caller Blink cameras coming to marketplace are the Blink Frontier XR+, Blink Outdoor 2K XR+, Blink Mini 4K+, Blink Pan-Tilt Zoom 2K+, and Blink Spotlight 2K+, filling retired its catalog with cameras designed for precise ample outdoor properties. All the caller cameras are disposable for preorder starting October 21st.

The Blink Mini 4K+ is an $80 wired information camera built for indoor and outdoor use, and the archetypal 4K wired camera from Blink. It tin seizure a 115-degree tract of view, enactment dual-band Wi-Fi 6, and diagnostic two-way audio.

These features are a large upgrade implicit the archetypal Blink Mini, the Mini 2, and the newer Mini 2K+. The Blink Mini 4K+ is the category’s flagship this year, yet bringing bonzer solution to what was an HD camera conscionable a twelvemonth ago.

The Blink Mini 2Maria Diaz/ZDNET

New extended-range cameras

Blink is besides entering a caller class with 2 extended-range camera models: the rugged Frontier XR+ and the Blink Outdoor 2K XR+. Both are designed to screen ample properties wherever the Sync Module whitethorn beryllium up to a mates 1000 feet away.

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The Frontier XR+ is designed arsenic a way cam, cleanable for distant areas and ample properties. This $200 camera comes with the Sync Module XR+ and tin scope connectivity to up to 7,000 feet with a wide enactment of sight. This camera isn’t designed to beryllium utilized solely arsenic a way cam, however. It tin surveil expansive, distant areas, specified arsenic gates oregon cattle areas.

At $150, the Blink Outdoor 2K XR+ besides includes the Sync Module XR+ and tin scope up to 2,700 feet with a wide enactment of sight.

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Blink besides announced a caller Spotlight Cam 2K+ for $110, which is simply a 2K-resolution camera with 4 LED spotlights to illuminate acheronian areas. The camera is battery-operated, making it casual to instal wherever you privation without wiring oregon plugging it in.

Even with a caller extended-range brace of information cameras, the biggest hardware upgrade is the Blink Mini Pan Tilt 2K+, which costs $50. Instead of the clunkier pan-tilt Blink Mini from years past, the 2K+ is compact and sleek, with 350-degree cookware and 115-degree tilt.

This PTZ camera is besides weatherproof, truthful you tin usage it extracurricular with a Blink Camera Outdoor Adapter.

Maria Diaz is simply a unit writer with a passionateness for location automation, astute location devices, and tablets. With a inheritance successful graphic design, photography, and filmmaking, she has a bachelor's successful Mass Communication and acquisition successful journalism and film. See afloat bio