Customer Ratings & Reviews

My family really enjoys the Amazon Echo. We have it set up to automate our home and remind us of things that are in our schedules. We picked up the Echo and two of the Echo Dots. We love to play our music and control our television by just simply telling it to do so. Locate your phone with one of the skills. I purchased one for my mother so she can use My Buddy if she gets hurt and call for someone if she can't get to her phone. There is a lot of potential for development in home automation as well as the connected automobile.

Very easy to use. Bought this unit for my mother and she listens to music daily through this. She asks the weather and the news. Very useful!

Use Alexa every day now for controlling lights and shades in the house with Lutron, playing music and getting a weather update every morning.

This is the coolest thing i have ever had she can answer anything and even turn off my tv all by asking her its a great buy and fun to use...

I bought this as a gift for my husband. We have enjoyed playing with it. I just wish you didn't have to buy other products to connect with it.

I own the dot already . I purchased this one for the better speaker ... the sound is awesome . No actual issues with the device itself , but the app could be better for playing music from the phone through amazon music .

I purchase my Alexia about a month ago and waited to write this review in order to get more familiar with its operation. Set up was a breeze with no problems connecting to my home network. At present I am using my Alexia for my morning news briefs while having breakfast. Listening to Bloomberg, CNN, Fox, and Reuters news briefs you pretty much get an insight of what’s happening in the world. If you wake her up by saying “Alexia, good morning” she will give you some interesting information concerning the day. I also use her for reviewing by daily schedule and local weather before heading out. No longer do I have to search in my iPad. Listing to music is a pleasure since the sound is very acceptable and I can change the volume or skip song without even moving. She response to my voice from across the room. The timer function is a help when cooking, and setting a alarm by voice is a great convenience, eliminating some use of my phone. It would be nice to have Alexia call your contacts on your phone with IFTTT but that would involve uploading your contact list to Amazon, something that at the moment I would not do. My future plan is to interface Alexia with a smart home system which will operate by voice control. I am happy with my purchase and would recommend Alexia to anyone.

I enjoy the Echo. I use it to control my SONOS speakers and and a couple of outlets. I also ask Alexa to tell me jokes a couple times a week.

Love that I can play any song I want instantly without having to plug in and navigate to song. Especially nice when either baking or cleaning

Love this! It has added such simplification to my daily routine! I can update my grocery list on the fly. My daughter loves to ask questions that assist her with her homework, etc. And the fact that we love to jam out and listen to music all the time, this is rockin cool! Altogether, it was a great purchase! And since I got it on sale, that makes it even better!

I use " Alexa, what's my flash briefing?" first thing every morning to catch up with the latest news and weather. I want one for each room!

The Amazon Echo is worth the cost for the speaker feature alone. I love the ease of being able to tell Alexa what music to play. While I mostly used Alexa for playing music, my whole family enjoys asking her questions. Additionally, the shopping list feature is useful. I look forward to learning about the many ways we can integrate Alexa's skills into our everyday lives.

Great stereo and back porch lighting! We use Alexa on our back porch when in our hot tub as a stereo and to turn our hue go lighting on. We also use her for hue lighting in the bedrooms and the hue lighting strips in the kitchen! You can also learn new Alexa skills on your iPhone every day. I'm 56 and it's super easy to learn how to use Alexa, you can too. :-)

Currently learning the various ways to utilize this very unique device. Hoping to start using Alexa to control common household functions

This device is so easy to set up and connect to wifi. Alexa is very helpful since I can control almost everything in my house by my voice

The Echo has become the centerpiece of most of my families pre dinner activities. The kids love asking Alexa questions and playing music.

Since purchasing the Echo we’ve used it for nearly everything, from score updates and weather forecasts, to finding whatever music we’re in the mood to listen to. Alexa is smart and intuitive. Well worth the $99!

Having realistic expectations is a must with the Echo. I had thought the AI would be much better than it is. Sometimes you need to say something three times for Alexa to find it. For example if you ask her to play a specific song by a specific artist the first two times she will say there is no song by that particular artist but on the third attempt she finds it. This is with voice training complete mind you. I purchased three echos to use as a starter system to play music on each floor of my house. They did not support whole house play at first but due to high demand they now have a group setting so you can play music simultaneously on all your echos. Be warned though if you ask Alexa to play your group (multiple echos) you cannot play all your devises at once using Spotify for example. Verbally asking Alexa to play the entire group only allows play from amazon music. The Alexa app needs some work but is fairly easy to navigate. I feel I’m pretty tech savvy so for those who aren’t just take some time to browse through the app on your phone. You need to enable skills in order to get responses to certain questions which to me is a big draw back. I think most have the intention of buying the Echo, setting it up, and asking it anything and getting a response without all the extra setup. Remembering specific phrases to get an exact response can be a bit of a hassle. I gave it four stars because it works for playing most music through my whole house without breaking the bank. I think there is still a lot of improvements that could be made and it seems Amazons priority isn’t necessarily the Echo. From reviews I’ve read the request to play music on multiple devices was something people were asking for since the products release. I was able to pick them up when they were in sale but to be honest if I would have paid full price I would have returned all three and saved my money. Wait until they go on sale and then you can justify some of the shortfalls of the product.

So we have been getting our home setup for automation for a while now. Buying one piece at a time and implementing them makes the cost less scary! We have a Wink hub, Cree LED lights, MyQ garage door opener, AT&Ts Digital Life security and automation, Nest thermostat, etc. It has been a blast getting all of this working together and seeing how it can really benefit us in real life rather than in cheesy video clips on YouTube of people smiling and hugging while they turn the thermostat down a degree with their phone. You may be wondering how the Echo fits into this review...well before Alexa came into our lives we had to have a phone or tablet on us, unlock it, find the relevant app, open it and select the action to turn off a light or whatever we wanted to do. Now, we just say, "Alexa, bedroom light 10%" or "Alexa, turn the bedroom lamp off" or "Alexa, play Bloodhound Gang on Spotify", etc. The Echo makes utilizing your home automation much easier, plus with the ever growing list of 'skills' I can start my car, play a game, listen to music, get my news, control media playback, order a pizza, buy stuff from Amazon, even schedule an Uber pickup, etc. If your specific car or app or whatever isn't available yet, just give it some time and it'll most likely end up supported! Very, very cool technology!

We love Alexa! It is so much fun to listen to all of our favorite songs and artists from the last 70 years with an easy voice request.