Other speakers Alexa (or Alexa Compatible)
- Amazon Echo Pop for $ 40:: The Echo Pop (7/10, Wired recommends) is a perfectly fine and most cute speaker in the Amazon range. Does it have great sound? No. It’s good enough for background pieces or if you are limited to a dormitory, but you will get the sound much better for a similar size of the echo point (but you will pay a little more, and you will not have so cute of colors!)
- Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd generation) for $ 90:: This intelligent display is another option to end, but it is too small to be an excellent screen, and the camera includes a no for a bedside table; Better to go with the point of echo above or an echo point.
- Amazon Echo Show 10 (3rd generation) for $ 250:: This intelligent display has a big sound, but its wobbly shape makes it difficult to register transparently in your home. It’s cool that it can follow you while you talk to him, but also a little weird. It’s great if you have a large kitchen island, you always move, but not much else.
- Amazon Echo Show 15 (2nd generation) for $ 300:: This smart display is a good display, but it clearly wants to double as a television and is not yet very good in this area. I hope we will see better performance related to television in the future so that it is worth adding to a kitchen or an office. He does an excellent job with widgets, however, thanks to the massive 15.6 inch screen. There is also the biggest Echo Show 21 ($ 400)which is essentially the same but greater.
- Bang & Olufsen Beosound A1 (2nd generation) for $ 227:: The Beosound A1 is a durable, beautiful and consonance companion, and this second generation version has an Alexa integration to make it an Alexa speaker wherever you go. It is a great speaker, but it is more expensive than the Sonos has the obligation.
Other devices with Alexa inside
Why ask Alexa for help while you are at home? These accessories allow you to take your favorite vocal assistant with you everywhere.
- Echo frames (3rd generation) ($ 330): The editor -in -chief of criticisms with planes, Adrienne, was therefore entirely ready to hate these glasses and these combo headphones, but she loved them a lot. They look good, they are surprisingly comfortable and the sound is correct – although a little tiny, because the speakers are placed right next to your ears. You can answer the calls while running and make walks, and the microphone is good enough for her to always be on her phone. But the load base is boring. The arms of the glasses do not completely fit into the stand, and you must be careful to balance the frames in two points.
- Echo Buds (version 2021) ($ 120):: We liked the original Echo Buds, but we are even bigger fans of the 2021 version (8/10, Wired Recomds). Amazon headphones are delivered with wireless load, noise technology and surprisingly ergonomic adjustment. Better microphones mean that Alexa’s vocal controls even operate in noisy environments. The overall experience of using headphones is like a future we have seen in science fiction films. Need to define a timer, check the weather or see what happened with your favorite sports team? Just ask these headphones. Amazon also has a Version 2023 ($ 50) It is much cheaper, much uglier and has not ancient.
What is Alexa +?
Amazon will start to deploy the news and improved Alexa soon, named Alexa +. This second generation of the Alexa vocal assistant is supposed to be more conversational, capable of performing complex tasks and learning new information, and being much more personalized. This will be due to a generative AI that fueled it.
It will be available for $ 20 per month, or free if you have an Amazon Prime subscription. Although you probably have a subscription if you have added an Alexa device to your home, it’s a big leap from the previously free assistant. Amazon says that Early Access will start to deploy next month in the United States, starting with Echo Show Smart Displays, in particular the Echo 8, 10, 15 and 21 show.
How to delete spam from your echo exchange screen
If you use an Echo Show device, you have probably noticed that there are tons of default content, the device will display you. Sports scores! Local news! A recipe that might interest you! It makes the device exhausting and boring to be close.
Here’s how you can control what you see:
- Slide at the top of your echo emission to remove the menu and select the settings.
- From the settings menu, choose the contents of the house.
- There are more than 40 options that you can activate and deactivate in this menu, and you should delete as much as possible as you do not use. I generally remove all weather forecasts and I recently played audio.
Although you can deactivate interest -based announcements from third -party skills (this is under Alexa Privacy in the settings menu), this will not stop all the announcements. The only parameter without advertising is the choice of photo display mode, which can use the photo library included from Amazon or yours. The only drawback is that transforms it into a digital photo frame, you will not even see a clock or features like widgets.
