![]() The Echo is shorter and fatter than the old one, at 5.9 by 3.5 by 3.5 inches (HWD), with six different sleeves to match your design tastes. You can see the incredible range of Amazon's skill set in our article Amazon's Highest-Rated Alexa Skills in Every Category. Alexa's big draw is the thousands of third-party skills it enables and home automation devices it supports. If you aren't familiar with Echo and other smart speakers, they've grown over the years from devices that let you shop and listen to music into all-purpose home assistants. At $99.99, the Echo is designed to be the workaday, every-room speaker for those who can afford a little more than the Dot, and want a better look and more volume. ![]() Or you can get a third-party Alexa speaker like the higher-end $199 Sonos One for true multi-room audio and fantastic sound quality (and your choice of Alexa or Google Assistant). You can get a $149.99 Echo Plus with more power and a built-in Zigbee home automation hub. You can get a little $49.99 third-generation Echo Dot or $34.99 Echo Input and pair it with a better speaker. Your choice of Alexa speakers has really expanded. That's a killer combination, which is why it earned our Editors' Choice for voice assistant speakers in 2017, and why it's still a strong recommendation two years later. It's small, useful, sounds good for its size, and is reasonably priced at $99.99 (and often available for much less through Amazon). The second-generation Echo introduced in 2017 is a much more attractive speaker, and that's why Amazon hasn't touched it in two years despite updating nearly every other Echo device in that time. It was an unfriendly, black plastic cylinder that looked like it came from the wrong side of the Force. The original Amazon Echo was the best smart speaker for over two years, but man, was it scary-looking. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac. ![]() How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.
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