Amazon
Echo Dot
gives you a
voice-controlled smart home for
only $90
**body saw it coming. While
Apple and
Google were busy trying to beat each other to the
smart home with
HomeKit and
Nest, respectively,
Amazon snuck in from **where with the
Echo and its Alexa voice assistant and embarrassed them both.
When I
reviewed it last year the
Echo could
only do a handful of things like play music, read the news, tell you the weather and set timers. Today, the Echo's a full-featured, voice-activated
smart home hub thanks to all the third-party devices and services that can connect to it.
See also:
The best smart devices that work with the Amazon Echo and the new Tap
The Echo's success pushed
Amazon to put Alexa in more devices and **w she's available in the Fire TV, Fire TV Stick and two new devices: the Tap (read
my review here) and
Echo Dot.
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