In fact, the fifth-generation smart speaker has even better sound than all the Echo Dots that have come before it (a mean feat given how hard it is to eek good sound out of a small device).
The Amazon Echo Dot is the baby in the Amazon Echo range, but don’t be deceived by its diminutive, spherical and slightly squat size – this speaker Alexifies every room in your home on a budget, while still delivering decent sound and good smarts. You won’t be able to glance at it and see the time, however. The closest comparison would be the Echo Dot 5th gen (£54.99, .uk), which has smaller speakers and doesn’t have a Zigbee smart hub inside. Now on its fourth generation, the base Amazon Echo sits neatly in every room, giving you Alexa without having to over-spend for a screen. Who should buy it?ĭespite there being several flavours of Amazon Echo smart speaker, the original is still the best for most people in terms of sound, size, price and smarts. We were able to set up personalised voice recognition for each family member as well, and Alexa skills worked a dream. The fourth-generation also has a built-in smart hub, so you can control Zigbee smart devices from the smart speaker without having to create a separate smart home skill or connect a separate smart hub. It does only have one microphone, and sometimes struggled to pick up our voice from a considerable distance across the room. It supports lossless audio from Amazon Music HD and Tidal.
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Featuring a 32.2mm driver unit and a neodymium magnet which helped really propel the bass in our favourite tracks. Our music on the Echo 4th gen sounded rich, detailed and oh, could it get loud. It’s the first base Echo to change shape from its cylindrical forebears, taking on a more rounded spherical (and arguably more stylish) design, similar to the Echo Dot. It’s not too big, not too small, has excellent sound and isn’t too expensive. The Amazon Echo fourth-generation is the best all-round smart speaker. We’ve put them to the test to help you choose the ideal smart companion.
While Amazon experimented with other Amazon Echo gadgets, including a weird little device called the Amazon Echo Look, which was a hands-free fashion and styling assistant, it’s the original Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show and Echo Studio which have stayed the course.īut with so many Alexa-enabled smart speakers floating around, it’s hard to know which one is right for you.
These were closely followed by the best-sounding Amazon Echo in the Echo Studio, with the company even venturing into making an Amazon Echo device for the car.
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It started with a series of smaller, more budget-friendly Amazon Echo devices, called Echo Dots then came the series of smart displays with screens, called Echo Shows. Since the original Echo rolled out, Alexa smart speakers have become the centrepiece to every smart home, and Amazon has since made one for every room, be that the kitchen or the bedroom. Almost ten years on, and Alexa really has become a household name. But that’s what it did when it launched a little smart speaker called the Amazon Echo. Surely, Amazon couldn’t have known in 2014 that it would be about to transform a name ranked 32nd in popularity into the most commonly shouted name in living rooms across the globe.
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