Other Alexa speakers (or compatible Alexa)
- Amazon Echo Pop for $ 40: The Pop Echo (7/10, britcommerce recommends) is a perfectly finely fine and most beautiful speaker in Amazon’s alignment. Do you have a great sound? No. It is well enough for the background melodies or if it is limited to a bedroom, but you will get a much better sound for a similar size of the Dot Echo (but you will pay a little more, and you will not get such a beautiful colors!)
- Amazon echo show 5 (3rd generation) for $ 90: This smart screen is another fair option, but it is too small to be a large screen, and the included camera makes it a no for a night table; It is better to go with the previous echo point or an echo point.
- Amazon echo show 10 (3rd generation) for $ 250: This smart screen has a great sound, but its unstable shape makes it difficult to fit perfectly in your home. It’s great that you can follow you while you talk to him, but also a bit strange. It’s great if you have a large cooking island, you’re always moving, but not much more.
- Amazon Echo Show 15 (2nd generation) for $ 300: This smart screen is a good screen, but it clearly wants to double as TV and is not yet very good in that. I hope we watch a better performance related to television in the future so that it is worth adding to a kitchen or office. However, he does a great job with Widgets, thanks to the mass screen of 15.6 inches. There is also the greatest Echo Show 21 ($ 400)which is essentially the same but bigger.
- Bang & Olufsen Beosound A1 (2nd generation) for $ 227: The Beosound A1 is a lasting listening partner, beautiful and of great sound, and this second generation version has an integration of Alexa to turn it into a speaker from Alexa wherever you go. It is a great speaker, but it is more expensive than that of the Sonos.
Other devices with Alexa inside
Why just ask Alexa for help while you are at home? These accessories allow you to take your favorite voice assistant with you everywhere.
- Echo Fraames (3rd generation) ($ 330): britcommerce Adrienne review editor, so she was completely prepared to hate these combined glasses and headphones, but they really liked them a lot. They look good, they are surprisingly comfortable and the sound is fine, although a bit very metallic, since the speakers are placed right next to the ears. You can answer calls while you run and go for a walk, and the microphone is good enough to sound as if it were still on your phone. But the load base is annoying. The glasses of the glasses do not fit at all in the position, and you must be careful to balance the frames in two points.
- Echo Buds (launch 2021) ($ 120): We liked the original outbreaks of Echo, but we are even larger fans of version 2021 (8/10, britcommerce recommends). Amazon headphones come with wireless load, noise cancellation technology and surprisingly ergonomic adjustment. The best microphones mean that Alexa’s voice controls work even in strong environments. The general experience of using headphones feels like a future that we have seen in science fiction films. Do you need to establish a timer, check the weather or see what happened to your favorite sports team? Just ask these headphones. Amazon also has a Version 2023 ($ 50) That is much cheaper, much more ugly, and it has no ANC.
What is Alexa+?
Amazon will begin to implement the new and improved Alexa Soon, called Alexa+. This second generation of Alexa’s voice wizard is supposed to be more conversational, capable of executing complex tasks and learning new information, and is much more personalized. That was due to the generative AI that feeds it.
It will be available for $ 20 per month, or free if you have a Prime Amazon membership. While it is likely to have a membership if it added a device Alexa to his home, it is a great jump from the previously free assistant. Amazon says that early access will begin to be implemented next month in the US, starting with echo show Smart Displays, specifically the echo show 8, 10, 15 and 21.
How to delete spam from its Eco exhibition screen
If you are using an Echo Show device, you are likely to have noticed that there are tons of default content that the device will show you. Sports scores! Local news! A recipe in which you interest you! It makes the device exhausting and annoying to be close.
This is how you can control what you see:
- Slide from the top of your Echo program to extract the menu and select settings.
- In the configuration menu, choose Starting content.
- There are more than 40 options that can activate and deactivate in this menu, and you must eliminate as many as you may not use. I usually eliminate all but weather forecasts and recently reproduced audio.
While you can disable ads based on interests of third -party skills (this is under Alexa’s privacy in the configuration menu), it will not stop all ads. The only configuration that is free of advertisements is to choose the photo screen mode, which can use the Amazon or yours photo library. The only inconvenience is that it makes it a digital photo frame, so you will not even see a clock or features such as widgets.