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Amazon Echo Dot (4th Gen)
A digital assistant or smart speaker is probably the best way to start automating your home. They work using voice commands, which are useful for setting timers, playing music and podcasts, and controlling other smart home products. At around $50, the <anchor>Amazon Echo Dot (4th Gen)</anchor> is an affordable smart speaker that uses Amazon's Alexa smart home platform. And it supports hundreds of devices.
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- Meet the Echo Dot - Our most popular smart speaker with Alexa. The sleek, compact design delivers crisp vocals and balanced bass for full sound.
- Voice control your entertainment - Stream songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, SiriusXM, and others. Play music, audiobooks, and podcasts throughout your home with multi-room music.
- Ready to help - Ask Alexa to tell a joke, play music, answer questions, play the news, check the weather, set alarms, and more.
- Control your smart home - Use your voice to turn on lights, adjust thermostats, and lock doors with compatible devices.
- Start Routines with your motion - Turn on compatible lights, play your Flash Briefing, or turn on the coffee maker when you walk into the room.
- Connect with others hands-free - Call friends and family who have the Alexa app or an Echo device. Instantly drop in on other rooms or announce to the whole house that dinner's ready.
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13,659 customers mention "Sound quality"9,598 positive4,061 negative

Customers like the sound quality of the digital device. They mention it's great for voice and good for music.

"...the full size 4th gen Echo but I really like the new Dots shape , sound quality , light bar on the bottom , button user friendliness and color..." Read more

"...Very convenient and has really good volume, its connected to the my ring camera and lets me know if someone is at the door or ringing the bell...." Read more

"...Overall, even if it didn't do that obnoxious loud noise, the existence of Alexa does not only fail to add any value, but in fact makes it creepy and..." Read more

"Well, it works great and has a great sound for a small device. We have 5 Alexas including a how the Echo 4 th gen, a 3rd gen...." Read more

8,271 customers mention "Functionality"6,413 positive1,858 negative

Customers like the functionality of the digital device. They mention it provides far more functions and convenience through the built-in touch. Some say it does a lot of other interesting things. Some also say it works great without any problems. Overall, customers are satisfied with the functionality and performance of the product.

"...4th gen devices have the microphones near the volume buttons and work very well unless trying to compete with my sound bar they sit on top of ...." Read more

"Well, it works great and has a great sound for a small device. We have 5 Alexas including a how the Echo 4 th gen, a 3rd gen...." Read more

"...+ I like the available emergency features (more on this in my review)CONS:-..." Read more

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"...The buttons on the unit are easy to find and work well . Set up was darn near automatic , much much better than Echo devices just a year ago...." Read more

"...I have one in my living room and one in my room. Very convenient and has really good volume, its connected to the my ring camera and lets me know if..." Read more

"...I also like the integration with my Weather station (Ambient Weather) and the ability to make announcements across all the devices..." Read more

"Sound quality for the size of this device is incredible. Very easy to use." Read more

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##### Alexa does the job

Whats better than owning an Echo Dot? Owning two echo dot. I have one in my living room and one in my room. Very convenient and has really good volume, its connected to the my ring camera and lets me know if someone is at the door or ringing the bell. This is a good quality product.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2020

I got a Dot with clock to try out the new shaped Echos and really enjoy it. I enjoy it so much I decided to buy a second , without clock , to make a stereo effect when using Alexa for music. Little did I know I can incorporate my full size Echo to enhance the bass , like is a sub woofer. Does it rattle the windows ? No. Does it sound very nice ? Yes

About this particular Dot .

I got black because of where it'll be located so it would basically disappear but if you're not trying to hide one the other colors are really nice as well. The white isn't bright white but isn't bordering cream either. I really liked the sky blue color of my first one (until I discovered a black Sharpie worked well to make it black while not blocking out the clock ) so it's a nice way to go as well. My last full size Echo was the blue and it is a nice color choice for just about any color scheme room , unlike the white and black that can really become an unwanted drawing of the eyes point but I digress.

The buttons on the unit are easy to find and work well . Set up was darn near automatic , much much better than Echo devices just a year ago.

The volume can easily fill a room by itself but at a cost of sound quality if its trying to do things by itself. For a large room a big brother Echo will have a lot more oomph and punch whether music or vocal . This Dot will work but sound cheap and Tinny at higher volumes . The 3rd gen Dot doesn't get as loud as this one but was really a little too much in my daughters bedroom when she set it above 5 (50% volume ) . For that size room the 2nd gen Dot was just right. She has a smaller (15'x 15' ) room by far than my 28'x30' den .

This one , just like the other 4th gen devices have the microphones near the volume buttons and work very well unless trying to compete with my sound bar they sit on top of . Then they just ignore my attempts to talk with Alexa. At that point I can just talk to the full size Echo by my sofa (across the room ) . You ask any smart device to discern my voice from a tv voice when the tv is inches away and I'm yards away isn't fair so I won't give it a knock but when the sound bar isn't on the Dot can hear me easily even if I speak just above a whisper and the one closest to my den door can hear commands when I first enter the house so by the time I get to the den my lights are lit and I can have music playing if I so choose . Alexa software has really come a long way in 2020 from clunky and not able to discern me from my dog to being able to understand what my 4 year old granddaughter is trying to get to happen and myself practically having a 2 way conversation with it.

Catching it on sale and using the interest free 5 payment plan made this one an easy choice that is very budget friendly. The only Echo device cheaper is the Flex but I'd recommend that one only for using Alexa features and routines. The sound and volume on it are not room filling and rich at all . Fine for voice searches and such but not so much even for audio books. For that the Dot more than suffices .

If I had to choose 1 Echo device and only 1 it'd be a Dot for it's value and usability . Since I could choose more than 1 ,my most used is the full size 4th gen Echo but I really like the new Dots shape , sound quality , light bar on the bottom , button user friendliness and color choices .

If you want a great value , don't need a clock and oomph in your music /audio books listening isn't a must you can't go wrong with this one unless you don't like a device the size of a baseball sitting on your furniture or shelf .

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Got It For Setting Up Stereo But Really Like It By Itself As Well.

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2020

I got a Dot with clock to try out the new shaped Echos and really enjoy it. I enjoy it so much I decided to buy a second , without clock , to make a stereo effect when using Alexa for music. Little did I know I can incorporate my full size Echo to enhance the bass , like is a sub woofer. Does it rattle the windows ? No. Does it sound very nice ? Yes

About this particular Dot .

I got black because of where it'll be located so it would basically disappear but if you're not trying to hide one the other colors are really nice as well. The white isn't bright white but isn't bordering cream either. I really liked the sky blue color of my first one (until I discovered a black Sharpie worked well to make it black while not blocking out the clock ) so it's a nice way to go as well. My last full size Echo was the blue and it is a nice color choice for just about any color scheme room , unlike the white and black that can really become an unwanted drawing of the eyes point but I digress.

The buttons on the unit are easy to find and work well . Set up was darn near automatic , much much better than Echo devices just a year ago.

The volume can easily fill a room by itself but at a cost of sound quality if its trying to do things by itself. For a large room a big brother Echo will have a lot more oomph and punch whether music or vocal . This Dot will work but sound cheap and Tinny at higher volumes . The 3rd gen Dot doesn't get as loud as this one but was really a little too much in my daughters bedroom when she set it above 5 (50% volume ) . For that size room the 2nd gen Dot was just right. She has a smaller (15'x 15' ) room by far than my 28'x30' den .

This one , just like the other 4th gen devices have the microphones near the volume buttons and work very well unless trying to compete with my sound bar they sit on top of . Then they just ignore my attempts to talk with Alexa. At that point I can just talk to the full size Echo by my sofa (across the room ) . You ask any smart device to discern my voice from a tv voice when the tv is inches away and I'm yards away isn't fair so I won't give it a knock but when the sound bar isn't on the Dot can hear me easily even if I speak just above a whisper and the one closest to my den door can hear commands when I first enter the house so by the time I get to the den my lights are lit and I can have music playing if I so choose . Alexa software has really come a long way in 2020 from clunky and not able to discern me from my dog to being able to understand what my 4 year old granddaughter is trying to get to happen and myself practically having a 2 way conversation with it.

Catching it on sale and using the interest free 5 payment plan made this one an easy choice that is very budget friendly. The only Echo device cheaper is the Flex but I'd recommend that one only for using Alexa features and routines. The sound and volume on it are not room filling and rich at all . Fine for voice searches and such but not so much even for audio books. For that the Dot more than suffices .

If I had to choose 1 Echo device and only 1 it'd be a Dot for it's value and usability . Since I could choose more than 1 ,my most used is the full size 4th gen Echo but I really like the new Dots shape , sound quality , light bar on the bottom , button user friendliness and color choices .

If you want a great value , don't need a clock and oomph in your music /audio books listening isn't a must you can't go wrong with this one unless you don't like a device the size of a baseball sitting on your furniture or shelf .

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Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2024

Whats better than owning an Echo Dot? Owning two echo dot. I have one in my living room and one in my room. Very convenient and has really good volume, its connected to the my ring camera and lets me know if someone is at the door or ringing the bell. This is a good quality product.

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Alexa does the job

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2024

Whats better than owning an Echo Dot? Owning two echo dot. I have one in my living room and one in my room. Very convenient and has really good volume, its connected to the my ring camera and lets me know if someone is at the door or ringing the bell. This is a good quality product.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2024

Well, it works great and has a great sound for a small device. We have 5 Alexas including a how the Echo 4 th gen, a 3rd gen. Dot and a couple of 1st gen. Dots. Love'em!

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2021

PROS:

+ Faster response than my older Dots

+ Better microphone than my older Dots

+ Sound quality as good or better than my older Dots

+ I love using these for streaming music and control my Kasa products

+ I like the available emergency features (more on this in my review)

CONS:

- The lights on the bottom are hard to see from a distance

- Amazon is starting to annoy me with new features I don't want

- Using these as intercoms has never worked for me. The sound quality (volume) has always been too low to be usable

- "dropping in" has never worked well either due to poor audio quality

- I have never been able to create a group of these for multi-room audio because they can't handle enterprise grade wifi (where more than one WAP has the same SSID and uses multiple bands)

- Privacy will always be a concern with these units. Who is listening?

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I now have at least 15 dots. I have everything from the first generation to this latest 4th generation in use. I think for me, the 3rd gen devices are a better design. The lights on these 4th gen devices are on the bottom and are hard to see from across the room. On the 3rd gen the lights are on the top and much easier to see. Otherwise they are mostly the same at the moment. As time goes on the 3rd gen units will no doubt become slower by design just like my 1st and 2nd gen units are now.

My primary uses are control of my smart switches (Kasa) and to listen to music (DeadLive skill). I also like the integration with my Weather station (Ambient Weather) and the ability to make announcements across all the devices (like when dinner is ready). I also find the unit in the kitchen gets used to set timers for everything all the time.

Another use that is not immediately obvious is the use of these units for elder care. Let me explain how i have used them. I have an elderly mother who lives by herself. I purchased a Show and a Dot for her apartment and connected them to my account. The Show device is in her kitchen and the way I have it setup I can see the kitchen and her recliner from the built in camera. The Dot is in her bathroom. If she is not answering the phone or emails I can use the app on my phone to "drop in" on the Show unit and view the camera to see if she is in the kitchen or watching TV with her headphones on. Of course she knows about this setup and is OK with it. I can talk to her via the Show device or the Dot using the APP on my phone when I want to check to see if she is OK. Also, if she needs to contact me or 911 during an emergency she can do so with her devices. So if she were to slip in the bathroom or have a problem in the kitchen she can call 911 with the help of Alexa. It should also be noted that you must correctly set the physical address of the devices in the Alexa app if you want this to work as intended. I feel much better knowing that she has this system available to her. A friend of hers fell and broke a hip and was alone in her apartment for 3 days on the floor unable to get up before she finally remember she could call her daughter using the Alexa device she had. Doing so saved her life. That's what gave me the idea to set this up for my mom.

Aside from the above, there is the issue of the new features being introduced by Amazon that are becoming more annoying. One example of this is the unit waking me up to ask me if I want to write a product review for something I purchased. That is just a terrible idea. If I want to write a review, I will do so on my own. I don't need Alexa waking me up on a Saturday morning asking me about it. Work on that Amazon.

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Reviewed in Canada on May 4, 2022

I ordered the one with clock display and they sent the one with out and they wouldn't honor it. That bothered me but my don still loves it



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Reviewed in Canada on January 23, 2022

My kid is a huge star wars fan and loves music. He uses it daily.



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