Advertisement Last time, I took apartGoogle’s Home Mini smart speaker, introduced in October 2017. This time, I'm dissecting a primary competitor,Amazon’s second-generation Echo Dot, introduced in October 2016 as a replacement for thefirst-generation Echo Dotunveiled in March of that same yea...
If you've got two identical devices (or functionally identical -- the same-generation Echo Dot, Echo Dot with Clock and Echo Kids are all interchangeable in this sense) you can pair them so that audio is divided into left and right channels, like a bona fide stereo system. That pair wil...
First up is the new Spotlight Cam Pro, focusing on using radar sensors for improved motion detection. With the new radar sensor in the camera, you can set precise thresholds on when the Cam Pro starts to record and alert you to motion. Those sensors also power the Bird's Eye View featur...
If you start with an Echo Dot or an Echo Show 5 and later want to add more devices or choose another device with better sound or a larger screen, the first device will surely find a home quickly in another place, such as your bedroom. Your Echo devices will all sync together, too, ...
Which is precisely why [André Hentschel] decided to look intoreplacing the firmware on his Amazon Echo with an open source alternative. The Linux-powered first generation Echo had been rooted years before thanks to the diagnostic port on the bottom of the device, and there were even a few ...
Amazon's $80 Smart Thermostat is hard to beat in terms of value, and that's at full price. For starters, the thermostat works as well with Alexa as you'd expect given that it's an Amazon product, so if you have an Echo speaker or Echo Show display, you should be in good shape ...
finishes and includes Dolby Audio for a minor, but noticeable, boost in audio quality when you stream music through the device. It also has an auxiliary jack next to the power jack, giving you the option to connect your Echo to an external speaker, something the first-generation model ...
Amazon Echo Dot performance The marquee feature of the Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Generation) when it first launched was the revamped audio system that helps make the Echo Dot sound better than any version that came before it. While there’s very little debate that this Echo Dot does, in fact,...
In late 2017, the original Echo was taken off the market, replaced by a new Echo and Echo Plus, which have since been updated again. Now both the Echo and Echo Dot are spheres instead of cylinders. The previous generation Echo also added the ability to change skins. That's gone away ...
It’s that time of the year again when Amazon takes the wrap off its latest generation of hardware devices. As is to be expected, first up at 2020’s virtual event is the fourth generation of its Echo smart speaker, and this one looks very different indeed. ...