Basically, in almost all cases, when you add a smart home device (like the Alexa-controlled Philips Hue bulbs), you need to add a hub to your network to control them. If you're not familiar with smart home devices, this will take a second to explain. The 4th Generation Echo also adds the smart hub capabilities previously only offered in the now-discontinued Echo Plus. The 4th Generation Echo's sound has improved above that, including an upward-firing woofer and dual tweeters.
I have a 2018 Echo in my garage and its sound is strong and clear.
That said, the spherical shape makes it harder to fit in your space than the previous cylindrical versions.Īmazon did not sacrifice sound quality when it reduced the Echo's stature. Personally, I like the black look for pretty much everything, but if you're trying to make the Echo blend in with your surroundings, the alternate colors might prove appealing. You can choose from Charcoal, Glacier White, and Twilight Blue (which doesn't look at all like twilight and is really kind of a bluish-gray two-tone thing). That's gone away with the spherical Echo. The previous generation Echo also added the ability to change skins. Now both the Echo and Echo Dot are spheres instead of cylinders. In late 2017, the original Echo was taken off the market, replaced by a new Echo and Echo Plus, which have since been updated again.
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It was meant to be both an intelligent assistant, and a spare Bluetooth speaker. It had decent quality speakers for room-filling music. It had a ring of powerful microphones, capable of picking up commands from a distance. The Original Echo most closely resembled a black Pringles can. We got to know Alexa, and she became family. The Echo became the least necessary, most appreciated simple helper in our home. We learned that having our choice of music at our fingertips no longer required actual fingers. We were willing to do these simple, basic tasks ourselves.īut then we learned that we could set timers for every little thing, with impunity. We thought it wasn't the height of crudeness to punch numbers into a calculator using our actual fingers. We thought it was okay to set our own alarm clocks.
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