If you have fast Wi-Fi, then it seems this setup would work well. In a house with multiple people streaming or using bandwidth in other ways, although relying on your Echoes for stereo sound might lead to more frustration than it's worth. I used a 4K Fire TV Stick to create the group, and it felt great to be able to simply say, "Watch The Boys," to Alexa, only to have your TV turn on and begin streaming the Prime show. The speakers worked fairly well, though I had one drop out of the group while I was testing it.





With a neat and compact 5.5-inch touch screen display, the Echo Show 5 helps you manage your day, watch videos and connect with friends and family. It has Alexa built-in and is perfectly sized for a bedside table or kitchen countertop. 

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It's a cool idea, though how much you benefit from it will largely depend on where you live, and how big of a change it will represent for most customers remains to be seen. Practically, that could mean a larger functional network for devices toward the edges of your property -- say, outdoor lights or Tile tracking devices -- or even beyond.

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The Alexa-equipped Echo can do it all, including help controlling compatible appliances and devices like robot vacuum cleaners, home security, lights and heating - all with a simple voice command.  For those on a tighter budget, the 3rd Gen hockey puck-shaped smart speaker is now on sale for Book Store £25.99.





Voice assistants are growing and changing all the time, but for the most part, they do what they've been doing for years already: Answer questions, set timers, control your smart home gadgets, play music and so on. So why buy a new Echo? The big question for Amazon and its new Echo is, well, beyond the superficial, how reimagined is it?

What's less clear is how Amazon Sidewalk, which Amazon says will launch later this year, will affect Echo users. According to a recent Amazon blog post explaining it, Sidewalk will allow users to "contribute a small portion of their internet bandwidth, which is pooled together to create a shared network that benefits all Sidewalk-enabled devices in a community."

Connecting a voice assistant to your entertainment system feels like a real improvement, if you haven't done it before. And the new Echo, using Alexa, works pretty well here. Home theater in the round The other home feature I was excited to try with the new Echo was setting up a home theater group.

I personally didn't notice dramatic differences in output from room to room, but the speaker sounded good in the various rooms and on the various surfaces I used for testing. In addition, the Echo has adaptive sound, so it can adjust to the acoustics of the room in which you use it. When it comes to sound, the Echo represents a significant improvement over the third-gen speaker from 2019, Book Review likely in part to the fact that the third-gen Echo essentially copped its design almost wholesale from an older device.

And on the other end of the price spectrum, Amazon's new $100 full-size Echo represents a serious upgrade in sound quality and smart home control. It's a solid smart speaker and an easy entry point into the market, but it's competing with 2018's still-excellent Dot, which has seen prices in recent weeks as low as $19. Now, Amazon's new Echo Dot faces a problem.



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Of course, this design isn't some aesthetic revelation: Most smart speakers look basically interchangeable at this point, with a layer of fabric mesh over soft geometric shapes. Google's recent Nest Audio is vaguely rectangular, and Apple's soon-to-launch HomePod Mini is similarly spheroidal. Ball is life The best changes to the fourth-gen Echo might be sound quality and home smarts, but the most obvious change is its spherical design.