Customer Ratings & Reviews

Personally, I am fairly deeply immersed in the Google Assistant environment. I bought this for my parents, as they have an Amazon Fire TV Stick to stream live TV via Playstation Vue. For that use case, the Echo Dot works great, as you can easily link the Dot to the Fire TV Stick to tune to different channels on PS Vue, watch a certain movie on Prime Video, etc. I also like the Xbox integration, and the speaker's sound quality is pretty impressive on the new generation for how small it is. That being said, the Echo's capabilities can be limited in some areas. For example, shortly after I set the device up, the Dot's light ring began to glow orange. I didn't know what that meant, so I decided to experiment and ask the Echo. "Sorry, I don't understand" was the response from the Dot. I asked my Google Home the same question, and it listed what each color of the light ring on the Dot indicated. Sometimes it seems like the Dot can't even return an answer that only requires a simple internet search. The bottom line to me is- if you're integrated into Amazon's ecosystem, or there are specific skills that the Echo can perform that the Google Home devices can't, then I'd recommend the Echo Dot. For most people, I would lean toward the Google Home environment.

Bought one of each for my daughters rooms and and light bulbs that change colors. They love changing light, turning them off by voice, playing music while they clean, etc. highly recommended

A very useful and fun electronic part of my family room. My grand children love it for games and music. It has so many things you can do with it.

Was a Christmas present for my daughter and she loves I. She loves that it talks to her. And it's can get loud.

I purchased this unit as a Secret Santa gift. After the person won it, I explained to them how the Alexa units work and how simple they tend to make life. She went off and bought one for each bedroom of her house (she loved it so much after using it for a week).

The best quality at all! Listen to many music and ask it lot of question

Great price and sound it does.not follow you around like the one with screen's there a wast of money unless your trying to keep up with the jones family.

The Amazon echo dot is a really great smart speaker. I have 3 of them so far throughout my house along with 2 Homepods. The echo dots are good for a bedroom and areas like that. The bigger speakers will be wanted in areas like your living room.

Has great sound quality. Loud enough for our most of the house. It also continues to work great after a year!

We have added this dot to guest bedroom. Our guest love it as have WeMo plug and they are able turn table light off or on when going to sleep and also need to get up in dark room can ask Alexa to turn on light. Also they can ask weather when visiting.

I used my Dots in sync with my Blink doorbell so that I can hear the doorbell ring anywhere in the house. I then started using it to play music and give me reminders for different things.

Started a smart room soon to be house and sonfsr this has been good syncing lights and sleakers and other devices seamlessly. Will buy more for other rooms.

I use it primarily for playing music. I revel in the fact that I can be in the kitchen listening while preparing meals. It is a nifty little device that I recently purchased but now I wonder how I could have managed without.

This is my second echo, it is in my living room / dining room area (small home). I love it. Just recently, I set up a few routines, which I really like. I also got a smart power strip, and now I can voice control turning on my lamp, seems silly but it is nice.

My daughter loves that she doesnt have to get up to turn off the tv. The Multitude of things that you can use this for is great in itself. The distance this thing can hear from is also amazing

I got this as a package deal with the Ring doorbell 2 for my parents. I have the previous generation at home and I have to say I may be switching to these. They are a bit bigger but the sound has improved a lot. Try and buy them when they are on sale.

Full disclosure - My home is a google smart home, but this item came free as a bonus from another purchase over the holidays. I wanted to try it out just to check the differences between my google home minis. My only complaint is that I wished all of the smart home companies worked together and were all user friendly with one another...oh well...maybe someday in the future we can all learn to get along : )

Love having it listen to me all day, Best Buy is giving me rewards if I write a review. Get this thing when it’s .99 cents amazon always has some kind of deal with this thing don’t pay full price. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

Super fun to add items quickly to shopping list (and always have the list with me at the store since it's on my phone instead of leaving a paper list at home.) Easily play music, ask Alexa facts, weather... you name it.

Compact easy to use. Pretty good sound for size and picks up voice at an amazing distance.