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Echo Spot - Smart Alarm Clock with Alexa - Black

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Echo Spot
  • Compact 2.5" smart display with Alexa ready to help
  • Alexa is always happy to help - Manage your day. Get instant information. Check weather and traffic on your way out.
  • Voice control your music - Ask Alexa to play music and see lyrics with Amazon Music. Also, stream music from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, and other music services, or books from Audible.
  • Control your smart home - Voice control compatible devices or manage them on the easy-to-use display. Ask Alexa to show you security cameras, control lights, and adjust thermostats.
  • Connect with video calling and messaging - Make video calls to family and friends with Skype, the Alexa app, an Echo Spot, or Echo Show.
  • Alexa has skills - With tens of thousands of skills and counting, Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new skills like tracking fitness, playing games, and more.
  • Designed to protect your privacy - Electronically disconnect the microphones and camera with one press of a button.

Simple to Set Up & Use

1. Plug in Echo Spot | 2. Connect to the internet with Echo Spot | 3. Just ask for music, weather, news, videos, and more

Technical Details

Echo Spot

Echo Spot

Size

4.1” x 3.8” x 3.6” (104 mm x 97 mm x 91 mm)

Weight

14.8 oz. (419 grams) Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process

Alexa App

The Alexa App is compatible with Fire OS, Android, and iOS devices and also accessible via your web browser. A list of supported operating systems can be found here. Certain skills and services may require subscription or other fees.

Wi-Fi Connectivity

Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4 and 5 GHz) networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.

Bluetooth Connectivity

Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo Spot or from Echo Spot to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS X devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported.

Audio

Built-in speaker. 3.5 mm stereo audio output for use with external speakers (audio cable not included).

Accessibility Features

On Echo devices with screens, you can enable Alexa captioning and closed captioning, magnify the screen, toggle color inversion, and choose between color correction options. You can also enable the VoiceView screen reader to use gestures to navigate the screen and hear spoken feedback about the items you select. Learn more about Echo screen accessibility and Alexa accessibility.

Warranty and Service

1-year limited warranty and service included. Use of Echo Spot is subject to the terms found here.

Included in the Box

Echo Spot, power adapter/cable (6 ft.), and quick start guide.

Privacy Features

Wake word technology, streaming indicators, microphone/camera off button, built-in camera shutter, the ability to view and delete your voice recordings, and more. Visit the Alexa Privacy Hub to explore how Alexa and Echo devices are designed to protect your privacy.

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Customer reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5 out of 5
25,128 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the performance, ease of use, and sound quality of the digital device. For example, they mention it works well, is easy to set up, and delivers bass in spades. That said, some complain about the screen flickering and glitching.

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2,842 customers mention2,475 positive367 negative

Customers like the performance of the digital device. They say it works well, is useful, and is functional as an above-average alarm clock and voice command user. They also mention that it works great for asking various questions, video calling, and that it's a nice piece of tech.

"...These were the first two devices we bought, and they worked so well I decided to buy the other devices...." Read more

"...For the money though, the dots work great in the kids' rooms. I don't really need to see them...." Read more

"...In the end, it sits on the desk. Because there are so many useful features, I chose to stare at it all day usually tuning into different exterior/..." Read more

"...Plus, the sound not as full, but for the size of this device, it’s quite good. You can fill a small room with music. The bass is surprisingly good...." Read more

1,349 customers mention973 positive376 negative

Customers like the sound quality of the digital device. For example, they say it delivers bass in spades, it plays Audible books, and Alexa can hear you from pretty much everywhere. Some mention that the speaker is passable.

"...And I NEED bass when I jam, and this thing delivers bass in spades. Even with the setup issue, I'm planning on buying another for in the basement...." Read more

"...In the kitchen, we have the Echo Show. The speaker quality is good. You can have it play any music you want...." Read more

"...Also, the Spot does not sound like a Bose. If you want or need fabulous sound quality, get a Bose...." Read more

"...Same screen, just smaller and round. Nicer sound than an Echo Dot. Great display. This fits nice on a desk or nightstand...." Read more

1,335 customers mention1,165 positive170 negative

Customers like the ease of use of the digital device. For example, they mention it's perfectly compatible and super easy to set up with smart home devices. They also appreciate the simple, uncomplicated UI. That said, some complain that the in-app setup works better. That being said, most find the setup to be immensely convenient. They mention that the WiFi setup without issue and the time is accurate and set automatically.

"...They were all incredibly easy to get through initial setup (except the Echo Sub, more below)...." Read more

"...The first thing that surprised me was the easy setup process...." Read more

"...It is extremely easy to connect up and get onto a wireless network, and I have one running through my Sony 1200 Watt/Channel 7.2 AV receiver where..." Read more

"...The Spot is also incredibly user-friendly. The setup process was quick and easy, and the voice recognition technology is impressively accurate...." Read more

1,288 customers mention909 positive379 negative

Customers like the quality of the digital device. They mention that it's well-built, has a nice size screen, and is of good quality. Some say that the settings are well thought out and that it makes for an excellent bedside clock.

"...2. I like that cheap cameras like the EZVIZ series connect really well to the Spot. I don't need to spend major money on higher end Arlos, etc...." Read more

"...I’ve played around with a few of these settings and they are well thought out...." Read more

"...attempted to select a photo I received a message that the Alexa app had stopped working. Perhaps I need a lower res image. I will try that today...." Read more

"...my Sony 1200 Watt/Channel 7.2 AV receiver where it provides excellent quality reproduction, equaling the sound quality of a CD...." Read more

1,065 customers mention1,026 positive39 negative

Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the digital device. They mention that it is compact, good looking, and cute. They also appreciate the nice graphics and the well designed hardware. Customers also mention that the colors look better than they do from their camera phone and that it blends seamlessly with their bedroom decor.

"...They all look good, and aren't big, ugly hunks of metal and plastic taking up space in your house...." Read more

"...On the Spot specifically, the graphics are nice. When it does the daily briefing it actually brings up the CNN anchor in the display...." Read more

"...Same screen, just smaller and round. Nicer sound than an Echo Dot. Great display. This fits nice on a desk or nightstand...." Read more

"...is quite decent for such a small object, it makes an attractive clock for a tabletop, its commands are logical, and it is very versatile...." Read more

1,012 customers mention709 positive303 negative

Customers like the size of the digital device. They say it's compact, good looking, and fits nice on a desk or nightstand. The screen is a good size and they feel that if it were any bigger it'd feel too. The color touch screen and camera is perfect for small places like bed-side table or kitchen. The footprint is comparable to an Echo Dot, making it easy to place in any room of the house. It's not heavy and portable but is sturdy, stable, and robust.

"...Nicer sound than an Echo Dot. Great display. This fits nice on a desk or nightstand...." Read more

"...The Spot's compact size makes it easy to place in any room of the house, we use it in our kitchen and it's a great assistant when cooking meals -..." Read more

"...I have perfect 20/20 vision, but sometimes, the text on the screen is so small, that I simply can’t see it very well...." Read more

"...with excellent voice recognition, color touch screen and camera is perfect for small places like bed-side table or kitchen counter...." Read more

892 customers mention422 positive470 negative

Customers are mixed about the value of the digital device. Some mention that it's a reasonable priced tool to complement any home, and worth the investment. However, others say that it’s over-priced for what it does, and the camera is less than useful.

"...I think it’s steep price for the device." Read more

"...it can do way more than those things, but for just that it was worth the investment. Today I ordered 2 more dots...." Read more

"...❌ Can't watch many video sources, yet❌ Expensive--this thing is as overpriced as the original Echo, so expect it to drop to about half the..." Read more

"...and the spot takes the Alexa devices up another notch, IMO, for a reasonable price!..." Read more

1,094 customers mention128 positive966 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the screen of the digital device. They mention that it flickers and sputters all the time, and it constantly cycles through a few screens. The screen is also glitchy and bothersome at night. Some customers also say that the display is less than ideal for video.

"...When you play games, like Jeopardy, there is not enough screen real estate to show the answers sometime...." Read more

"...2018: After few days working with my two Echo Spots, I found it's very glitchy. The slideshow doesn't work all the time...." Read more

"...The screen is less than ideal for video (not so much because it is small as because it is round)...." Read more

"...that the Spot won’t stay on the clock face, that it continually cycles through a few screens...." Read more

The screen increases the utility 2-3x over the Dot
4 Stars
The screen increases the utility 2-3x over the Dot
So the Echo Spot is a glorified alarm clock. To me, though, it represents something more as I get ready to return to work after being laid off 6 months ago. To get back into the routine of waking up early on weekdays, I *need* an alarm clock now, and the Spot is my early "new job" present. I was delighted when it was delivered a whole day before the official release date. Echo Spot is a metaphor for Alexa sneaking into the earliest, most vulnerable part of your daily routine, and in my case it's a very exciting journey as I return to a regular 9-to-5 (with *pay*). Enough about my plight--how will this thing work for YOU?OVERALL CONCLUSION======================Four stars out of five because Echo Spot's screen is a useful addition to Alexa, the overall aesthetic design is great, the sound is very good for a tiny speaker, BUT the price is high and the video ecosystem is immature (and not ideal on a round screen). You should buy it if you really need a fancy device in the kitchen or bedroom and you have this amount budgeted for an "extravagant" gadget for yourself or loved one. Otherwise, wait a little while until the price eventually decreases.WHO SHOULD BUY AN ECHO SPOT?==================================The Echo Spot is one of the more expensive ways to enter the Alex ecosystem. It has a screen, which none of the other small speaker versions have. Only the angular (ugly?) tablet-on-stand Echo Show has a screen, but that's where the differences end.✓ If you care about style and want to put a device in the bedroom, on a desk at work, or in the kitchen, the Spot would look great.✓ If you want to see the live video feed from a Nest/Dropcam/Ring, etc. camera, watch a video (albeit a limited selection right now), see reminders, lists, song lyrics and recipes, that screen is really helpful.✓ If you want an upgrade to the Dot (whose speaker isn't really meant for music) and have about the same amount of money to spend as the Echo (Gen 2), the Spot should be on your shortlist. The Echo G2 wins for sound quality by a small margin, but the Spot wins big for versatility with its screen and hardwired line-out for an external speaker (which the larger Echo Show inexplicably lacks, supporting only Bluetooth and not corded external speakers).HOW DOES THE SCREEN LOOK?=============================Good, not great. The resolution is excellent, somewhat close to retina, but the brightness is just OK, the glare is waaaay worse than I wanted (similar to the new/cheap Fire tablet screens, which lack the gapless lamination you'd find on the older/expensive Fire tablets and of course on all modern iPads). These previous factors coupled with the visible (but not terrible) color-shifting at extreme viewing angles make me realize how spoiled I am with flagship phone and tablet screens in the last 2-3 years. This is not a top-tier smartphone display, but I have to give a lot of credit for the cool-factor of a perfectly round screen.ARE VIDEOS WATCHABLE?=========================I looked up a recipe for the ever-sumptuous pannacotta. To my delight, the Spot immediately took me to allrecipes.com with a video on how to make an easy version of this Italian dessert. The video was zoomed in to fill the circular screen, and it looked surprisingly "normal". It's not likely that Amazon somehow curated videos for ones that look good on a circle screen, so my assumption is that most video producers just center tightly on their subjects and we actually don't use the sides of our rectangular screens very much.That being said, I couldn't stand to watch long-form content on this tiny screen. Moreover, where is YouTube? Please end this fight, Amazon and Google. Maybe it will be available in 2018. Until then, recipes from non-Google sites are the killer app for the Spot, and they are a tremendously useful feature.HOW IS THE SOUND?====================I own the Echo Dot (gen 2) and the Echo (gen 1), and the sound of the Echo Spot is somewhere between them. If the Echo Dot is 30 in quality and the Echo is 100, the Spot is probably a 70 or perhaps even 80. It's going to forego a lot of bass richness, but I listened to many hours of music this week and I was pleasantly surprised at how good the sound actually was. It's certainly better than any other speaker I've had in a bedroom or at work, which is where the majority of these will end up. If you want even better sound, then buy a nice Bluetooth speaker as a satellite, but the Echo Spot already sounds as good as the $50 little Bluetooth cubes a co-worker had at my former job. It's got a standard stereo out port and Bluetooth streaming, so if you need better speakers now or down the road, you can expand.WHAT ARE SOME THINGS YOU LIKE?=================================✓ Design, weight, premium feel✓ Very responsive touch screen✓ Lyrics for songs (the killer app for old Christmas carols, wow!)✓ Recipes✓ Video calling (worked well with my Alexa app on my Android phone)✓ Voice drop-in / intercom✓ Custom photo upload for background✓ Simple, uncomplicated UI, and most things, even Wi-Fi setup, don't need the Alexa app--this is a good gift for people who aren't bonded to a smartphone✓ Easily watch Amazon video content (but on a tiny screen)✓ Multi-room features are INCREDIBLE. During setup, I had my Echo Dot in the same room, and Alexa just *knew* (ESP is a great name) which device I was talking to; playing music in all rooms is nifty as well...✓ Mics and voice recognition seem just as good as all the other Echo devices, even though Spot seems to have only 4, not 7 like my original Echo and new Echo Dot both haveTHINGS LESS LIKABLE?======================❌ Power cord is not USB--why can't this just be a USB-C device?!?❌ Not a lot of clock faces, just 6 analog and digital right now; I do LOVE the "bokeh" clock face, though, which is a geeky photographer's term that refers to those out of focus rings made by lens aperture blades❌ Can't watch many video sources, yet❌ Expensive--this thing is as overpriced as the original Echo, so expect it to drop to about half the current level in 1-2 years❌ Screen is silly small for watching longer videos or videos that can't be cropped to circular proportions❌ No way to really "stop" video--it started again on its own today, which was beyond annoying because I had left the room at least 5 minutes beforehand and heard it resume from across the hall❌ UPDATE: You can "tap" anywhere on the touchscreen while the alarm is going off to snooze for 9 minutes. Very cool! Thanks to commenter Smokey DeBear for correcting me. (Original statement, now no longer valid: Utility as an alarm clock relies on using your voice--no dedicated buttons or intuitive way to snooze, etc.)❌ Camera could be a risk for those concerned about privacy and can't be *truly* disabled aside from blackout tape (which apparently stops the motion sensor and auto-brightness as well)ABOUT THE PHOTOS===================I wanted to include some common fruit for size comparison, so the logical sequence is to show you a grapefruit and tangerine so that you can visually see the Spot is about the size of a large orange. My wife then decided that Spot was "lonely" and needed "friends", so the two citrus fruits got faces, courtesy of a black Sharpie. Hopefully she'll keep the marker away from the Spot itself!To show an example of a custom clock face, I then took a photo of the grapefruit with the smiley face and made it the "face" of the Echo Spot. It was already round, so the cropping worked really well. You can upload any photo from your phone and zoom/crop to fit.UPDATE AFTER 5 DAYS====================Everyone who has come over for holiday gatherings has been amazed by the sound quality. It's a tiny form factor for such rich sound.I realized that the motion sensor will enable lyrics display as you walk up to it, waking it from the clock mode if music is playing. Neat!My phone is suddenly becoming less useful to call people because the speakerphone quality of the Echo Spot is just incredible. Everyone I've called says the audio on their side is amazing. Alexa wakes up and processes voice commands so much quicker than "OK Google" on my Nexus 6P, so it's more convenient to call when I'm near an Echo device.The kids love playing 20 questions and The Magic Door with Alexa. The Spot's screen doesn't help much with those, but I can definitely see other games/skills being built to entertain kids (and big kids) for hours. This could be a great homework helper in the future as the ecosystem evolves . . . "Alexa, how do you spell syzygy?" and the word appears on the screen as Alexa reinforces with spoken letters, S-Y-Z-Y-G-Y.UPDATE AFTER 4 WEEKS=====================Things that cracked me up the most: "Alexa, sing a barbershop quartet" and "Alexa, sing auld lang syne." The first is pretty bad, but Auld Lang Syne is FABULOUS and obviously has some human backup singers.Things I'm totally addicted to: I use the Echo Spot as a remote portal to check-in with the kids while I'm working remotely. I "drop in" on their Echo Dot and have been reading aloud to them ("Lord of the Rings," if you're curious) for an hour or so, a few times a week. The speakerphone quality is phenomenal and the connection is very stable. I wouldn't be able to do this on my cellphone.Lists galore: I now have half a dozen lists going because it's so easy to make lists and add stuff via voice. I worry that my short-term memory will be totally gone in a few years as I now depend on virtual assistants for everything . . .ALSO, responding to another reviewer, the clock's time size is big on the INCLUDED clock faces! See the last photo I just uploaded. Amazon must think that if you have a personal photo uploaded, you want the time to be small (which makes sense--you can see your photo better), so if you want the numbers large, just don't upload a personal watchface photo. Maybe they'll give an option to change that in the future, but it's not a big deal, in my opinion. Finally, if you walk up to the Spot and the camera senses your motion, the display will change to the weather or reminders, etc. Therefore: it's only big when it senses no motion (you're far away) and you've got a stock clock face. Pretty smart!
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