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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
This has a better speaker than my relatively new Alexa with a screen, which is great because I use them a lot for music. It was super easy to set up with the Alexa app since I have another, it only took 2 minutes to set up. I haven't had any issues so far. We use this one in the bedroom for alarms, music, and to turn off the smart lights in the house when going to bed. I like that this one doesn't have a camera or the screens that's constantly showing amazon ads, our other one is basically a shopping billboard so we shoved it into a storm trooper helmet and named her Kevin... who needs the screens anyway? With the screen, I guess you can do the family photo display, but it still is at least 60% ads instead of a digital photo display like I was promised. They advertise the screened Echos with things like 'oh you can watch cooking videos and the news and do a family photo screen saver" but that is what I have a phone for, if I need to watch something I'm more likely to use a TV or a laptop or even an iPad or my phone, the Echo is a last resort that will never happen. My phone has an easier interface, and its own AI assistant. Theyre also like "you can video chat your amazon contacts" but amazon is not social media, I'm not gonna collect amazon contacts and video chat them, and have yall head or facetime,,, or a phone?? Like no thank you, the screen on these things is just annoying and not aesthetically pleasing with all the weird ads that it didn't used to have, I never even see the screensaver with the time showing in forever and can't change the settings because amazon wants it to be a billboard. I really liked the screen when it used to be the time and I could use it as a clock, but no longer, that was the only thing I liked on the screen. Get the Pop instead, it's cheaper and wildly better. All the extra features they offer you for other models are a scam and you'll never use them, the Pop is great. I wish they'd bring back the panda face version, that one was cute.
