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There's nary shortage of Amazon Prime Day Echo deals happening correct now. I've tried astir each azygous Echo Amazon has made, from nan tower-like original Echo that sat successful my first postgrad flat to nan swath of Echo Show devices you tin find successful my location correct now while I trial Alexa+'s early access. But while you'll find respective of Amazon's smart speakers connected sale, there's only 1 I urge investing successful correct now.
Why? Amazon has 4 caller smart speakers and displays coming later this fall, perfectly timed to beryllium disposable up of Black Friday. If you're looking for room-filling sound aliases nan champion of Alexa's abilities, it'll beryllium amended to hold for nan caller Echo Studio ($220) aliases nan caller Echo Show 8 ($180) that will person updated features, amended sound and surface quality, and Alexa+ entree correct retired of nan box.
But if you're looking for a smaller speaker that will beryllium a nosy companion, that tin adhd a small characteristic to your abstraction while leaving retired nan cluttered screens and cameras, nan Echo Spot is your champion Amazon Prime Day Echo deal.
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That's right, the second-generation Echo Spot is my apical prime smart speaker to acquisition during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days this October. It came retired past twelvemonth and was an update to nan antecedently retired 2017 smart speaker. It's a smart speaker I emotion to travel backmost to since it's conscionable nosy compared to nan remainder of Amazon's (and immoderate different awesome smart speaker maker) ecosystem of smart speakers.
You tin customize nan timepiece look pinch a fewer different timepiece and colour options, letting you take thing that feels a small much personalized. It's not arsenic profoundly customizable arsenic nan aged type was, which fto you upload individual photos, but nan timepiece faces are much nosy than nan aforesaid surface you'll find connected each different Echo device. It's made to beryllium a bedside companion and siren clock, arsenic nan Spot will show you nan siren that's coming up adjacent underneath nan time.
I besides emotion that nan small surface is cleanable for showing circumstantial info for illustration nan upwind aliases almanac erstwhile you inquire Alexa for it, and thing else. No more cluttered, perpetually changing slideshows for illustration you'll find connected nan Echo Show 5 and 8; nary clutter and ads you didn't inquire for; nary much 40-plus options you person to uncheck to extremity getting 4 different pages of sports and news connected your Show device. The Spot is nan cleanable instrumentality for anyone who likes a ocular facet to their questions, but doesn't want to beryllium distracted by ever-changing screens.
While nan remainder of Amazon's Echo instrumentality deals aren't bad, nan Spot is nan 1 I'm happy to urge without worrying you mightiness want to switch it successful a fewer weeks erstwhile nan caller Echo speakers and smart displays commencement rolling out. It's a nosy smart speaker I find myself wanting successful my chamber and agency for mundane use, which is saying thing erstwhile I could take from immoderate smart speaker to put successful those rooms.
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