Amazon - Echo Dot (4th Gen) Smart speaker with clock and Alexa - Twilight Blue

We have a bunch of Echoes throughout the house; we use them to augment security with motion monitoring (fun fact: ultrasonic motion detection is a feature of these), fpr music throughout the house, and of course, home automation. Sound quality is surprisingly good for such a compact multipurpose device; they dont give Klipsch a run for the money but are actually quite listenable. My primary complaint about these, and this applies to all Amazon Echoes, is you cannot reboot them by voice or app, but must power cycle them by pulling the power cable. This is a design flaw that Amazon really needs to correct, because power and cable outages often require the echoes to be rebooted to restore full functionality... so be sure you don't mount these out of reach.

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Thankfully easy to set up. Yeah as many features I didn't expect like the sound level shows up and the display. Music, weather, news really great. I do use a Bluetooth hook up to a better speaker. Price is reasonable.

I love Alexa and I love the time that is displayed.

My fiancé loooooves it. According to him, it’s the best gift that I’ve given. But Alexa lost the podium when I bought to him a monitor from Dell. So Alexa is in second position now. Lol

The sound on this 4th gen echo is amazing. I tested it with Spotify and it has full control. I can say a specific genre to play or I can ask it to play one of my created playlists. It will also pause and skip the songs as well. It's almost louder than a huge Bluetooth speaker tower that I bought. The clock portion is the perfect brightness at night as well. I'm very sensitive to sound and light when trying to sleep so the clock is just dim enough where I can see it without the light bothering me. This thing is better than a lot of stand-alone clocks or small speakers, the Alexa capability is just a plus. I liked it so much a bought a second one for my living room

So far I love it. I already happened to have a time with Amazon Fire built in to it. Abd they gave me a smart bulb upon purchase. I'm still learning to use it and the commands but its made my life easier. If your putting this in your room I recommend it. It works well as a digital clock. The sound for when you listen to music is pretty good. It navigates the TV pretty well. And the mic will typically pick up the wake up word easily even if it's behind you. I wish it could send text messages from your phone to you but that's about one of my few gripes with it. The setup is also really easy for it. I think for $60 it's a steal. The only difference between the dot and regular echo is believe is the speakers.

I got this echo dot to replace a 3rd generation echo dot and the alarm clock in my bedroom. I absolutely love it, the clock is a great addition and the sound quality and mic are a big upgrade from the 3rd generation. Plus the set-up and connecting to other Alexa enabled products are so much easier and much more user friendly than previous generations. It came with a free smart light bulb and I already had 2 smart plugs, 2 fire sticks and a fire TV and connecting to them was as easy as finding them in the app and clicking on them it literally took seconds, now even those who aren't tech savvy can do it without a problem. I love it and would definitely recommend it