Customer Ratings & Reviews

Use this in my kitchen for recipes, video calls, YouTube, recipes and more. Overall, Alexa does a good job but I do feel recently it’s not detecting the command prompt as quickly and isn’t working as quickly. No idea why but just an observation. Probably the best home companion out. Apple / Siri are terrible in comparison.

It works great paired to ring doorbell and ring cameras. I bought a second one for alarm clock in my bedroom because I liked it. I like it that I can also call from anywhere as long as it's connected to wifi at home.

The Echo Show 8 should have been a slam dunk easy win for Amazon but it seems they just can't get out of their own way. The flaws in interface are becoming annoying to the point of distraction. Luckily this is something that is easily remedied by Amazon, if they simply listen to their customer base. My primary use for this is smart home integration, lights and camera system, married to the Ring ecosystem. That's where my review becomes a tale of two halves. Smart home integration - 4/5 - This it does really well (will explain the 1 star loss below). Given that Ring is owned by Amazon, this should come as no surprise. I'm able to easily and quickly bring up a camera and not only live view but also voice communicate over it. It's exactly what I need. Working from home, setup in my office, I can see and talk to whomever comes to the front door. I can also bring up the patio camera and see/talk to the wife/kids/pet in and around the pool. With the right components I can change the temp, adjust the lights and control smart enabled devices I've purchased with capable of Alexa integration. Love every part of this. Alexa interface - 1/5 - This is why I'm so disappointed. This sits on my desk in the office and when I'm not using it, my expectation is that it is a time/day/temp clock with a pretty background picture. It kind of is, except when Amazon feels like sales pitching/promoting something. Which is more often than not. The screen flashes to that what essentially becomes a popup ad, which I catch from the corner of my eye, while I'm working. Now I've gone in to Settings -> Home Content -> turned off everything, including Rotate Continuously. While that has cut down a lot of the home screen spam, Amazon is forcing something called "Alexa for your day" and it seems to have no shutoff option. There are other missing settings that simply shouldn't be missing from a controllable interface like the Show. Feedback/Suggestions/Fixes 1. Smart home integration - The missing star is because while the Show/Ring have a really nice integration, they just stopped short of making it something that could have been extraordinary. We need a Ring dashboard screen for the Show. Something like the live camera view of a NVR. Maybe allowing users to touch on a box and bring that camera up to full screen view before dropping back to tiles of all the cameras. Amazon owning both companies should be able to program the API for that and it would elevate the Echo Show from an optional addition, to an "essential" component of the Ring ecosystem. 2. Home Screen - Kill the suggestions/hints/tips/promotion stuff. We own the product, we're invested in the Amazon ecosystem, save the spam for someone else. This isn't a demo model in a brick and mortar store. While disabling everything under Home Content, we're still getting stuff like "Alexa for your day". While it does cuts down on clutter on the Home Screen, it should cut out all the clutter. When people say it's not as bad, as a desk clock, it's still a distracting eye sore. Clock, day, time and a beautiful background... speaking of which. 3. Missing background setting - Where is the option to control the background settings? I'm told the background (non-photo) pictures rotate every 10 minutes. In reality, the Show seems to do them whenever it feels like it. It may scroll through some as quick as 30 seconds before settling on one for 10 minutes. This setting should be in the menu. We should have the ability to control how often that background changes. It should be a "Never change" to a 1-24 hour selection, or something similar. Give us the ability to set it. It should be customizable the way a pc desktop is, only have what I want to see, how I want to see it. 4. Clock - The Show 5 allows for a large centered clock. Why isn't this an option for the 8? This is just baffling and might be the single most requested thing I've seen across forums and reviews. The API cannot be that hard. The Show is an end table clock, a desk clock, even a kitchen clock when not actively being used. It's okay, that's what people want it to be. My mom used to say, sometimes you help best when you stay out of the way. Well, Amazon stay out of your own way. The Echo Show 8 should be the ultimate executive assistant. Quiet and unobtrusive, sitting on corner of my desk until I interact with it. Instead you've deliberately chosen it to be the annoying temp that keeps trying to be "helpful" with suggestions and popups. Look at the reviews, forums, notice people know what they want from the device. Ditch the dystopian future ad spam trope and make the interface clean and elegant and most importantly, user driven.

Love love this Alexa so much I brought 2 one for myself and another for gift it’s one of my favorite new tech of 2021 so I will definitely recommend and buy again

Works great. We bought it to work with our Ring doorbell. However, we have now created a smart home now. So far, so good. I do highly recommend this product.

I can't say I use this to it's full capabilities. Mostly it has been used as a glorified Pandora player. I initially got it to connect my Ring doorbell to it, which is nice to have the video picture on.

I love it and there's so much you can do on it. Awesome product

Took it back and got the 10.1 instead. Bigger screen is better.

Great product. My dad loves to interact with alexia and this is super helpful in the kitchen for recipes for cooking. Also great that i can see my security cameras.

Awesome! Got 3 of them for myself and family for Christmas. Works great and everyone loves it. Especially with the pandemic so we can all video call each other. Love the drop in feature

Nice size on screen. I like that it has a camera lock.

AweSome! Easy to use. Great sound. Video viewing is amazing.

This is a must in your house. It’s great to get knowledge whenever you need it on any matter. Plus great recipes to get to change up meals in your house. Plus to be able to help your home security at home.

I can not say enough. This keeps me at peace in being able to see and talk to my parents and the same for them. Kansas to Arizona. It is like we are in the same room. Give a sense of security

We like the product. We upgraded to the Show 8, much easier on the eyes.

overall I have this device, a dot, a cube, and this replaces a 6" show that the display burnt in the the date and temp. into the screen so made it difficult to see the images. the price is right and display is good, but the display stays on unless I tell alexa to turn it off. this happens frequently during the course of a day and there is no setting to turn of the graphics to keep from doing the same to this larger device. I don't need a clock or temperature display as i have many other ways to get this information. So I would only recommend this at a reduced price because it will likely need to be replaced in less than a year.

I love it as it’s linked to my other Alexa devices. I use it on my nightstand and simply asks Alexa to show me the garage or show me the back patio or show me the front door. Great product

I purchased 3 one for each of my daughters and 1 for myself. This is a great way for us to see each other during the stay at home order. My grand daughter calls me and her aunt and chats and laughs with us.

Got these at a great price 2 for the price of one works as expected.

This was a gift I bought for a white elephant gift. I have one myself and I love our Alexa! Which is why I bought it as a gift and the person was happy.