The Amazon Echo Dot is essentially all the bits of an Amazon Echo that make it interesting, but without the speaker beneath it – and so it costs just one-third of the price. Only two, the Echo Dot and the Echo are available in the UK: the third, the portable Bluetooth speaker called Echo Tap, is only available in the US. It listens out for a “wake word”, which by default is the name of the voice assistant contained within the Dot: “Alexa”. The Echo Dot doesn’t have to be used in isolation either. VerdictThe Echo Dot is everything that’s great about the larger Echo speaker condensed into a small puck that costs one-third of the price.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2016 06:56 UTC