Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great to have for reminders, quick fact checks, & music. Doesn’t always link w/ Apple Music

Got this recently loved the new third gen echo dot. Much better sound quality than the old 2nd gen echo dot

My husband swore we “didn’t need one” and “wouldn’t use it” Now he uses it for EVERYTHING. Loves it! Haha! Couldn’t be happier. Also use her to play lullabies in my sons room so that I don’t have to use my phone on Bluetooth.

Very easy and simple to use. Can do many functions

Got a couple of these 2 for $50 around Christmas time and don’t regret it one bit. Great intercom system and great whole home music player. Good sound and easy setup.

We use this to turn our sons lamp off and on in his room. He loves it. Good for music and some fun apps out there as well. Better sound than previous generations.

Great item for multiple uses. Listening to music, controlling lights in the hone and many many more!

I have multiple units in different rooms and this works seamlessly with my other smart home products.

Its like having a second voice control phone. Best use if you have devices that link with it.

I own 2 of these and it makes for great use around the how other than listening to music. I set reminders on it, play song trivia games, and use the two way intercom feature when I need to communicate with someone on the other end of the house.

Works great with our other smart home items for automation

Great product. Easy to use. Would recommend this to anyone!

fun and entertaining awesome sound use it as an alarm or just to have it for some music

First amazon product I purchased!! It was cheaper here then it was on amazon!!!

Still have it, but just finally started using this for Alexa along with smart home automation, which surprisingly is a great thing for those of us who are starting to become ancient. Amazing value, really.

Easy to use and set up. Purchased a few to spread around the house which can all be connected as well as a hub that these connect to,

I had high hopes for the 3rd Gen Echo dot. I put mine in my Master bedroom, behind a table lamp (That is what I did with my previous echo dot (2nd Gen) and the Google home mini). I assumed this will work fine. But most times, the echo dot will not even respond. Either the mics on these are very low sensitivity or not enough. Now I have to keep the echo dot in line of sight to have any reasonable response. Even then I see 1 out of 5 wake words being ignored. Also, when there is a song or audio already playing on the echo, the wake word response is very low probability unless you are really loud. The sound was extremely muffled with high bass and much lower treble settings. This meant every time Alexa managed to respond to me, I had trouble making out the speech and tell her "I did not understand that" :). But those audio changes make the echo an awesome music playback device. There seems to be some form of software auto volume leveling going on, that is very unreliable. There were random change in the volume which was annoying at times. My biggest problem with the 3rd gen Echo dot was its lack of consistency with recognizing what I said. Most command recognition was almost a roll of dice. But the major reason I returned the echo dot, was the power supply design. This was bad design. Amazon decided to make their power adapter a non standard connector. This meant I cant use the tons of USB output power regulators, I have lying around in my house. Also in the age of USB type C, Amazon went a step back on their design. The reason maybe for them to avoid the use of non standard power supplies. But then that is a design flaw that they cant limit current drawn. The software app interface and set up was also a cumbersome process. This has been my qualm about amazon in general compared to their competition who seems to be picking up very fast.

Love this! I have several Amazon Echos at home - but when I seen the sale price on this, I bought it for the $20 gift exchange we were having at our family Christmas! The Echo Dot works as well as the pricier Amazon Echos!

Great deal when you use your points. Only wish it could be charged for trips.

Simple and fun to use. We really like the announcements.