Gadgetory

the Amazon echo is a smart speaker this full-size speaker with a brain on top Wi-Fi Bluetooth radio next to the cloud so that Alexa can figure out how to respond to your question or command well now there's the Amazon echo dot and this is basically just that brain no full-size features its cost half the price of Amazon echo but does everything that echo does it just doesn't put out a full rooms worth of sound the good news is that echo dot makes up for this by allowing you to connect to your own speakers either via a 3.5 millimeter cable that comes with it or over bluetooth that's a fantastic feature and something that the original Amazon echo can't do now when I say this the echo dot does everything that the echo does that's exactly what I mean it's the exact same set of Alexa smart you can ask it for music whether the news for random trivia just watched by say Alexa what's the weather in Louisville today you can even use echo dot on its own without any external speakers at all it has a set of built-in speakers that are about as strong as the ones in your phone to your tablet that's not enough to fill a room with audio but that works well as an Alexa access point maybe for a bedside table or in the kitchen all in all I think this is a pretty fantastic product and a great application of everything that we loved about Amazon echo into a smaller package that's easier to afford at ninety dollars I say it's a deserving Editors Choice winner frankly Alexa's never sounded the best