Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought an Echo Dot that I connected to an existing bluetooth speaker, but the speaker was too old and kept losing connection. I went to Best Buy for a new speaker but while there, I realized that buying the Amazon Echo would give me a decent speaker as well as coverage in the rest of my house. Perfect!

Installed the Echo in to my house that we have Nest thermostats in and WeMo light switches its interfaces with those devices are flawlessly. I can ask Echo to turn on or off lights or set the temperature on my thermostats. It does too many things to list. The voice recognition is the best I have used on any product.

Love this thing. Carry Alexa from room to room. Was a little tricky setting her up but I have teens who figured it out. Haven't had it that long and there is plenty of things you can use it for like calender and shopping list. The more you use it the more it does. It is a learning process but so glad I got it.

The Echo is not very good at answering questions. It is good at playing music and telling you the weather. I'm sure it will get better, but it is more of an annoyance with a toddler in the house. It does tell cute jokes, but it says "I'm sorry I can't find that answer" more often than not. The sound is quite good from this model, and works well with Spotify.

Bought this for my 13 year old, she absolutely loves it and the rest of the family has enjoyed it as well.

When I first grabbed an echo I thought it would be kinda gimmicky, but I loved it so much I bought two more echos and several dots. I have Alexa all over the house. The smart home integration is so wonderful. I feel like I am living in Star Trek when Alexa turns my lights on and off and does other tasks.

Alexa is so much more than a gateway to Amazon services. We use the Echo for music, cooking timers, controlling the lights of our home. The best is when the kids add items to our Alexa shopping list. Makes it super easy to build a grocery list. Super easy to set up. Works great. You should have one in your home.

I use it mostly to listen to music. With amazon prime (or Spotify, if that's your preference) I have almost every song that I'm interested in hearing without having to pay for anything. I haven't had the guts to order anything with it, but I'll work up the nerve eventually when I'm out of diapers or something easy.

Good for A lot of things. Listen to news briefs in the morning. Hooked up my lights to it. Great product

The echo is a nice speaker that has the added bonus of being able to respond to questions and give sometimes useful information. However in regards to it being capable of serving as the brain of an integrated, automated home, it lacks much. I purchased it to use with Philips hue bulbs and I was hoping my fire tv. Although it shares the same software with the fire, and logically should be able to work together, it does not. Echo will not connect to or control the tv. As far as the Philips hue bulbs, it can turn on individual bulbs, or even a group of bulbs IF, and only if, you remember the exact phrase or name you gave it. It cannot dim the lights, set light scenes or any of the cooler options the Philips hue bulbs are capable of. I wound up going back to using my iPhone which respond to voice command of 'hey Siri' better than the echo anyway. If I had to do it over again, I would have saved the money and gone with a simple Bluetooth speaker for my phone as it can already do many of the things the echo does. Only difference is that the phone doesn't have as big of a range for voice pickup. I did give the echo three stars, because the one thing it does well is respond to questions, like what's the weather like. That feature is interesting but not worth paying nearly $200 for.

I love it, my kids love it, very entertaining with the choice of commands, I would recommend to everyone.

Bought this for my step dad, and he loves it. I got to mess with it and now I want one for Christmas lol.

Easy to use (and fun too!). Great for math and history questions and perfect for making a shopping list.

Very capable wireless bluetooth speaker, but the real genius is the awe inspiring voice recognition. It blows away Siri and other voice assistants. There is something really magical about using your voice as a computer interface. Constant over the air updates mean that this device gains new functionality every week.

This is lots of fun, you can ask it what to wear, play you a song, your calendar, all while you're doing other things. So there is no wasted time, however I am not sure of the Privacy part of it. I think it is always listening and we will start to get marketed due to what we talked about at the dinner table

Absolutely LOVE my Echo! Sound is much louder than I expected it to be so it's very easy to hear!! Great for playing music and she'll play anything you want to hear!! The shopping list feature is awesome and the fact that it goes right to my phone so I can check it at the store is great!! Highly recommend!!

Great product but i upgraded to the Amazon - Echo Show - Black I prefer the show because of the screen

We bought this for my mom and she loves it and uses it to turn on her lights and control her thermostat

Was set up in my home, Oct 30, 2017. Still need to set up Music & what I have set up, I like the system.

I bought the Echo primarily for it's voice control of devices and secondarily to listen to music. As an ambient music player it is better than I had expected and am using it more for that than I had anticipated. Setup was easy. I expect to be connecting more devices and using more as time goes on.