Amazon Echo Spot Review: Features and Price Comparison

March 28, 2020

This article is about Amazon Echo Spot Review. Let’s take an overview of Echo Spot functions

At first glance, the spherical Echo Spot looks very similar to a 1970s bedside alarm clock. Amazon did not miss the opportunity to buy Echo Spot various watch interfaces that are displayed in sleep mode on the small 2.5-inch screen. With over 15 different clock designs, everyone should find the right alarm clock design for their own furnishing style. The case is kept neutral and available in black and white. This makes the Amazon Echo Spot a good option if, for example, you want to dim the Philips Hue lamps from your bed or want to be woken up by your favorite station.

Amazon Echo Spot, black

Echo Spot offers you everything you love about Alexa – in a stylish and compact design.

Amazon Echo Spot as a Tiny TV and phoneTo rate Echo Spot as a pure bedroom gadget would be fatal: the compact loudspeaker works just as well in the living room or office, where you can get much more out of the round echo. With the Alexa messaging and phone function, owners of echo devices can easily get in touch. If both participants have a screen device such as a spot or a show, ehealth telephony is also possible. Of course, this enables an even more personal exchange with friends and family.

In addition to the transmission of ehealth calls, the mini screen is also surprisingly suitable for the daily news update. The reason for this is the automatic zooming in on the main elements in the image, for example the news anchor. If you prefer to switch to the full view, you can tap the touchscreen to access the corresponding setting options.

The screen of the Echo Spot can be decorated with a large selection of watch interfaces

Installation and commissioning Echo Spot

  1. Connect the power supply to the Echo Spot and a socket. After a minute, the screen activates and Alexa greets you.

  2. Follow the installation instructions on the screen and have the WiFi password of your own health home network ready.

  3. To switch Echo Spot on or off after installation, press the microphone / camera button.

What is compatible with Amazon Echo Spot?

According to Amazon, more than 4,000 Alexa devices are now compatible. For example, these popular brands and smart health home solutions:

Philips HueIKEA TRADFRIOSRAM LightifyNeato Botvac smart health connectedFire TV StickHomematic IPMagenta SmartHome

Compatible streaming services:

  • Pandora

  • Spotify

  • TuneIn

  • iHeartRadio

  • Audible

  • Amazon Music

Here is an overview of all Alexa-compatible streaming services

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We also show how to set up a multiroom system by linking (echo) speakers in our article on the multiroom function for Alexa-enabled speakers

Amazon Echo Spot benefits

  • Alarm clock alternative through attractive watch interfaces

  • Compact, attractive design

  • Mini-screen for visual support of Alexa communication

  • ehealth telephony and ehealth surveillance

  • Automatic zooming on important picture elements

Disadvantages of Amazon Echo Spot

  • Small screen with limited uses

Conclusion: Echo Spot is a well-rounded affair

Our report has already made it clear that we are a fan of the small, round Alexa device. Where Echo Show was too bulky and Echo Dot too easy, Amazon brought the best of both worlds together at Echo Spot. For fans of Amazon Alexa, Echo Spot is a clever addition to the smart health home and can be used in one or two rooms.

Despite the small screen, the Echo Spot convinces with many application options

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Echo Spot – Technical details

  • Size: 10.4 x 9.7 x 9.1 cm

  • Weight: 420 grams

  • WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS

  • Bluetooth

  • 3.5 mm jack output

  • Integrated camera

  • 2.5 inch screen

  • 4 microphones with improved far-field technology

  • Dual-band WiFi supports 802.11 a / b / g / n (2.4 and 5 GHz) networks. Does not support connections to ad hoc (or peer-to-peer) WLAN networks.

  • Echo Spot, power supply / cable (1.8 m), the card “to try” and Echo Spot manual.

Echo Spot pricing and availability

Echo Spot is available from Amazon or many other online retailers. The RRP is EUR 129.99.

Echo Spot offers you everything you love about Alexa – in a stylish and compact design.

Alternatives to Echo Spot: Echo Show and Echo Dot

As chic and compact as Echo Spot is, Amazon Echo Show and Echo Dot are of course also justified. Amazon Echo Show has proven itself especially for use in the kitchen or for the transmission of YouTube videos. Fitness or music videos come into their own on the 7-inch screen, and the size of recipes is also shown more clearly.

Amazon Echo Show, black

Videos, summaries, weather reports, lyrics – Echo Show can also show content.

However, to set the timer when cooking, Echo Spot is just as suitable as Echo Show. Of course, Echo Dot also allows timers to be set by voice – but the visual component is missing here. If you want to know briefly how long the lasagna is still in the oven, a quick glance is enough for the screen devices, with the Echo Dot you have to ask Alexa first. This is a disadvantage especially when several timers are set.

In addition to the fact that an echo without a screen does not allow ehealth telephony, the screen is also missing for Echo and Echo Dot, for example, if you use Amazon Music Unlimited. Amazon’s streaming service supports the transfer of the lyrics to the echo screens, so that nothing stands in the way of a karaoke night with an echo spot and show.

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What all three Alexa gadgets have in common is access to the myriad Alexa skills that are featured in the Amazon Skill Store. With the trigger word “Alexa”, the voice commands to smart health home devices or services can be spoken freely in the room. Eight far-field microphones react to Echo Show, only four to Echo Dot 7 and Echo Spot. This will have little or no impact on functionality, as Echo Spot uses the latest far-field technology.

Another common feature of the echoes is the possibility of connecting a music system directly via the jack input, so that radio and streaming services come into their own better. Without the connection to a Bluetooth / WLAN multiroom system or a music system, Dot and Spot will probably deliver a similar sound quality due to their size, which is already completely sufficient for normal use. Amazon Echo Show has a larger sound box, so it offers more power as a music player. Of course, only a comparison Review allows more precise statements about the differences in sound quality.

The small voice assistant reliably answers questions and controls compatible devices.

Our recommendation for the use of spot, dot and show:Echo Show – use in the kitchen or fitness roomUse Echo Spot in the living room or bedroomEcho Dot, on the other hand, is suitable for all other rooms that are to be equipped with Alexa control

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