Echo Spot - Smart Alarm Clock with Alexa


Echo Spot - Smart Alarm Clock with Alexa

Aside from the fact that I bought this for $20 more just two months ago…

…I like it. It’s an Echo with worse audio but a small display, so it’s less ideal for music but good for any content with a visual component. For example asking Alexa for the weather forecast is enhanced by the display, as are other Echo-centric features that are designed to take advantage of it. However, while you can view video on it, the circular display is poorly suited for typical horizontal video, which will get shrunk down to fit.

Other than that, the circular display lends itself to analog-style clock faces, and that’s pretty much the only other reason why you might even consider this over the newer Echo Show models: the Spot has a tiny footprint if you only have a small amount of space to fit it, like on a small nightstand. The Spot seems like a prototype for the Echo Show product line, which do what the Spot does while being better suited for actual video content.