If you want to listen to anything that isn't on those services (or you don't use them), you can connect your phone to the Echo over Bluetooth and use it as a standard wireless speaker.Īlex supports thousands of smart home devices, including smart lights, smart locks, smart outlets, smart thermostats, and more, covering all major consumer home automation brands. Alexa can also set timers and alarms for you, and remind you of tasks.įor music, you can ask Alexa to play anything from Amazon Music, Apple Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, SiriusXM, or Spotify, and to read you audiobooks from Audible.
Alexa can answer your questions about general information, like the weather, sports scores, unit conversions, and general trivia.
Just say "Alexa," (or set one of the three alternate wake words through the Alexa app) and give a command, and the Echo will spring to life with a bright blue light ring and a reassuring voice. The back of the speaker has a connector for the included power adapter and a 3.5mm audio combination input/output. The panel is surrounded by a translucent light ring that glows blue when Alexa is listening or talking, orange when it's ready for setup, and red when the microphone is muted. The top panel of the Echo has four buttons (Alexa, microphone mute, and volume up/down) and six pinholes for the far-field microphone. The interchangeable covers of the second-generation Echo are gone the color you choose is the one you'll have to stick with. The blue and light gray models have white plastic top panels and bases, while the black and dark gray models have black ones. It's a 5.8-by-3.9-inch (HW) cylinder, available in black, blue, light gray, or dark gray versions that determine the color of the grille fabric wrapped around the sides of the speaker. The new Amazon Echo is identical in design to the Echo Plus, slightly shorter and a fair bit wider than the previous Echo. The Echo Plus is still available if you want the hub and sensor, but chances are you don't, in which case the $100 Echo provides the same solid audio performance for significantly less money, earning our Editors' Choice. It turns a $150 speaker with gimmicks most people ignore into a speaker that sounds louder and fuller than the previous Echos for the same $99.99 price. Alexa is better than ever, and the latest, third-generation Echo uses the same acoustic design and drivers as the $149.99 Echo Plus, but removes the Zigbee home automation hub and temperature sensor. Amazon created the smart speaker category with the Echo, introducing hands-free Alexa voice control to countless households.
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