The Echo Spot Is Just $45, Beating Its Black Friday Price

The Echo Spot is simply a gift that pulls double duty, acting arsenic a smart speaker, alarm, and moreover smart location controller.

If you want a inexpensive gift that feels expensive, nan Echo Spot is a awesome pick. The versatile smart show tin grip dozens of mundane tasks, and correct now it’s backmost astatine its all-time debased of $44.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. That really thumps its Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing and marks nan first clip it’s dropped this debased since Prime Day.

I’ve ever thought of my (ancient) Echo Show 8 and Echo Pop arsenic mini integer assistants that thief maine get done nan day, which is why Echo devices are immoderate of my favourite gadgets. The latest Spot benignant of combines nan champion of some worlds; it’s mini capable that it won’t clutter your nightstand for illustration a smart display, for example. Yet it besides offers a customizable 2.83-inch screen, letting you cheque adjuvant accusation for illustration nan weather, timers, reminders, and almanac astatine a glimpse — which you can’t connected a smart speaker for illustration nan Echo Pop. And because there’s nary camera, you don’t person to interest astir covering thing up for nan liking of privacy.

At nan aforesaid time, it delivers everything you’d want from an Alexa-enabled speaker. It tin aftermath you mildly pinch euphony aliases alarms, and you tin usage it to move connected nan lights, set nan thermostat, fastener nan doors, aliases power different smart-home devices earlier you’ve moreover gotten retired of bed. You tin moreover usage it to telephone different Echo devices astir your location and inquire Alexa questions, and moreover recipes. And you can, of course, perceive to podcasts, get sports scores, and play games, making it a gift that’s some applicable and fun.

Read our Echo Spot review.

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