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Echo Spot - Smart Alarm Clock with Alexa - Black

4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 25,130 ratings

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  • Compact 2.5" smart display with Alexa ready to help
  • Alexa is always happy to help - Manage your day. Get instant information. Check weather and traffic on your way out.
  • Voice control your music - Ask Alexa to play music and see lyrics with Amazon Music. Also, stream music from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, and other music services, or books from Audible.
  • Control your smart home - Voice control compatible devices or manage them on the easy-to-use display. Ask Alexa to show you security cameras, control lights, and adjust thermostats.
  • Connect with video calling and messaging - Make video calls to family and friends with Skype, the Alexa app, an Echo Spot, or Echo Show.
  • Alexa has skills - With tens of thousands of skills and counting, Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new skills like tracking fitness, playing games, and more.
  • Designed to protect your privacy - Electronically disconnect the microphones and camera with one press of a button.

Simple to Set Up & Use

1. Plug in Echo Spot | 2. Connect to the internet with Echo Spot | 3. Just ask for music, weather, news, videos, and more

Technical Details

Echo Spot

Echo Spot

Size

4.1” x 3.8” x 3.6” (104 mm x 97 mm x 91 mm)

Weight

14.8 oz. (419 grams) Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process

Alexa App

The Alexa App is compatible with Fire OS, Android, and iOS devices and also accessible via your web browser. A list of supported operating systems can be found here. Certain skills and services may require subscription or other fees.

Wi-Fi Connectivity

Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4 and 5 GHz) networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.

Bluetooth Connectivity

Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo Spot or from Echo Spot to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS X devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported.

Audio

Built-in speaker. 3.5 mm stereo audio output for use with external speakers (audio cable not included).

Accessibility Features

On Echo devices with screens, you can enable Alexa captioning and closed captioning, magnify the screen, toggle color inversion, and choose between color correction options. You can also enable the VoiceView screen reader to use gestures to navigate the screen and hear spoken feedback about the items you select. Learn more about Echo screen accessibility and Alexa accessibility.

Warranty and Service

1-year limited warranty and service included. Use of Echo Spot is subject to the terms found here.

Included in the Box

Echo Spot, power adapter/cable (6 ft.), and quick start guide.

Privacy Features

Wake word technology, streaming indicators, microphone/camera off button, built-in camera shutter, the ability to view and delete your voice recordings, and more. Visit the Alexa Privacy Hub to explore how Alexa and Echo devices are designed to protect your privacy.

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Customer reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5 out of 5
25,130 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the sound quality, appearance, size and quality of the digital device. They mention that it can hear you from pretty much everywhere, it's good looking and that the footprint is comparable to an Echo Dot. They also like the clock, and ease of use. However, some customers have reported issues with stability.

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3,626 customers mention2,942 positive684 negative

Customers like the quality of the digital device. They say it's useful, affordable, and does a pretty good job as an alarm clock replacement. Customers also say it works great for asking various questions and is functional.

"...These were the first two devices we bought, and they worked so well I decided to buy the other devices...." Read more

"...The quaIity is nice! No one has to raise their voice to speak in them, just a natrual voice conversation...." Read more

"...with our single Amcrest camera connection to Alexa and the spot itself works great in this case...." Read more

"...Amazon took my problem seriously -- the issues were fixed and echo spots work well now and respond appropriately...." Read more

1,735 customers mention1,395 positive340 negative

Customers like the ease of use of the digital device. They mention it's simple, stylish, and easy to set up. The WiFi set up without issue, and it' s convenient to ask questions about the weather, traffic, or other information. The compact form makes it an excellent clock replacement, and the technology picks up the wake word much easier. It's easy to read and provides a lot of information. Alexa wakes up and processes voice commands so much quicker than "OK Google" on their Nexus 6P, so it''s fast and snappy.

"...They were all incredibly easy to get through initial setup (except the Echo Sub, more below)...." Read more

"...Setting it up was supper easy and quick. It shows me the weather, the news, "Alexa" tips that I could use, and other things...." Read more

"...Setup was easy except for 1 small kink. The camera firmware needed to be updated...." Read more

"...ALEXABILITY: 5 STARS.... The spot is every bit as snappy and responsive as every other Alexa controlled device I own...." Read more

1,415 customers mention1,025 positive390 negative

Customers like the sound quality of the digital device. They mention that the music sounds clean and crisp, and Alexa can hear you from pretty much everywhere. It also plays Audible books.

"...And I NEED bass when I jam, and this thing delivers bass in spades. Even with the setup issue, I'm planning on buying another for in the basement...." Read more

"...In the kitchen, we have the Echo Show. The speaker quality is good. You can have it play any music you want...." Read more

"...and I do have to agree with other reviews saying that the Bluetooth volume is low and you really have to put it on high to hear anything...." Read more

"...the echo devices and the layout of the controls as well as the speaker is wonderful. I am not using the camera but it is well placed also...." Read more

1,197 customers mention1,005 positive192 negative

Customers like the appearance of the digital device. They mention that it's compact, good looking, and adorable. Some say that the colors look a lot better than they do from their camera phone.

"...They all look good, and aren't big, ugly hunks of metal and plastic taking up space in your house...." Read more

"...On the Spot specifically, the graphics are nice. When it does the daily briefing it actually brings up the CNN anchor in the display...." Read more

"...camera we are using is currently only 720p but with such a small screen it looks great...." Read more

"...FORM FACTOR: awesome.... 5 STARS This is perhaps the most beautiful of all the echo devices and the layout of the controls as well as the speaker..." Read more

1,058 customers mention751 positive307 negative

Customers like the size of the digital device. They say it's small and doesn't take up a lot of room, has a footprint comparable to an Echo Dot, and fits nice on a desk or nightstand. The screen is a good size and they feel that if it were any bigger it'd feel too big. The compact size makes it easy to place in any room of the house, and it sounds very nice and fills their office.

"...It's just the right size and fits pretty much anywhere in your house. I would definitely recommend this product." Read more

"...with excellent voice recognition, color touch screen and camera is perfect for small places like bed-side table or kitchen counter...." Read more

"...The letterbox was so tiny that unless I had my nose pressed up to the screen there was not going to be much that I was going to see...." Read more

"...The screen is a good size and I feel that if it were any bigger it’d feel too bulky. The whole device is about the size of a softball...." Read more

981 customers mention812 positive169 negative

Customers like the digital device. They say it has a timer and an alarm, and it has the "sunrise" alarm feature that will slowly brighten the screen 30 minutes before the alarm. They also say it quietly sits and displays the time, and is useful for alarms, music, and getting their news in the morning.

"...It has a timer and an alarm which I also like and have used on more than one occasion...." Read more

"...my UPDATED view of the alarm clock.... perhaps one of the most convenient alarm clocks I've ever used.... I can set the alarms with my voice...." Read more

"...What does it do? It wakes me up. It plays music. It displays the time. It answers questions, mostly about the current weather conditions...." Read more

"...Much better than the Dot, especially for kitchen because you can add multiple timers and see all timers in motion all at once...." Read more

695 customers mention457 positive238 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the connectivity of the digital device. Some mention that it has a jack in the back and is also bluetooth, making it a convenient way to communicate when away from home. However, others say that it drops connection at least once a week, has issues not just connecting to Wifi, but also when pairing with an Echo. They also say that the Spot does not support bluetooth.

"...It randomly shows things like the weather. You can do voice/video calls with it. The video between the Spot and the Show is nice...." Read more

"...The integration with the Amcrest cloud is smooth but limited. What I mean is they give you access to ONE camera only for free...." Read more

"...It gave me issues not just connecting to Wifi, but also when pairing with an Echo. Lots of logging in/out of the app, resetting the Sub...." Read more

"...It's got a standard stereo out port and Bluetooth streaming, so if you need better speakers now or down the road, you can expand...." Read more

956 customers mention45 positive911 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the stability of the digital device. They mention that the screen started to flicker, the glitch is bothersome at night, and the screen has started "jumping" once a second. Some customers complain that the camera can't be shut off.

"...has the downside of using your phone battery up and the feed shuts down during phone calls...." Read more

"...purchased at various times in 2018, one of them now is glitching on the display. Glitching like the matrix glitches in the movie with Keanu Reeves...." Read more

"...I've encountered only 2 mishaps with my Spot: once it did not turn off one of my lights (I found out the next morning when the light was still on),..." Read more

"...I don’t like how it cycles through the “things to try” without the ability to turn it off...." Read more

The screen increases the utility 2-3x over the Dot
4 Stars
The screen increases the utility 2-3x over the Dot
So the Echo Spot is a glorified alarm clock. To me, though, it represents something more as I get ready to return to work after being laid off 6 months ago. To get back into the routine of waking up early on weekdays, I *need* an alarm clock now, and the Spot is my early "new job" present. I was delighted when it was delivered a whole day before the official release date. Echo Spot is a metaphor for Alexa sneaking into the earliest, most vulnerable part of your daily routine, and in my case it's a very exciting journey as I return to a regular 9-to-5 (with *pay*). Enough about my plight--how will this thing work for YOU?OVERALL CONCLUSION======================Four stars out of five because Echo Spot's screen is a useful addition to Alexa, the overall aesthetic design is great, the sound is very good for a tiny speaker, BUT the price is high and the video ecosystem is immature (and not ideal on a round screen). You should buy it if you really need a fancy device in the kitchen or bedroom and you have this amount budgeted for an "extravagant" gadget for yourself or loved one. Otherwise, wait a little while until the price eventually decreases.WHO SHOULD BUY AN ECHO SPOT?==================================The Echo Spot is one of the more expensive ways to enter the Alex ecosystem. It has a screen, which none of the other small speaker versions have. Only the angular (ugly?) tablet-on-stand Echo Show has a screen, but that's where the differences end.✓ If you care about style and want to put a device in the bedroom, on a desk at work, or in the kitchen, the Spot would look great.✓ If you want to see the live video feed from a Nest/Dropcam/Ring, etc. camera, watch a video (albeit a limited selection right now), see reminders, lists, song lyrics and recipes, that screen is really helpful.✓ If you want an upgrade to the Dot (whose speaker isn't really meant for music) and have about the same amount of money to spend as the Echo (Gen 2), the Spot should be on your shortlist. The Echo G2 wins for sound quality by a small margin, but the Spot wins big for versatility with its screen and hardwired line-out for an external speaker (which the larger Echo Show inexplicably lacks, supporting only Bluetooth and not corded external speakers).HOW DOES THE SCREEN LOOK?=============================Good, not great. The resolution is excellent, somewhat close to retina, but the brightness is just OK, the glare is waaaay worse than I wanted (similar to the new/cheap Fire tablet screens, which lack the gapless lamination you'd find on the older/expensive Fire tablets and of course on all modern iPads). These previous factors coupled with the visible (but not terrible) color-shifting at extreme viewing angles make me realize how spoiled I am with flagship phone and tablet screens in the last 2-3 years. This is not a top-tier smartphone display, but I have to give a lot of credit for the cool-factor of a perfectly round screen.ARE VIDEOS WATCHABLE?=========================I looked up a recipe for the ever-sumptuous pannacotta. To my delight, the Spot immediately took me to allrecipes.com with a video on how to make an easy version of this Italian dessert. The video was zoomed in to fill the circular screen, and it looked surprisingly "normal". It's not likely that Amazon somehow curated videos for ones that look good on a circle screen, so my assumption is that most video producers just center tightly on their subjects and we actually don't use the sides of our rectangular screens very much.That being said, I couldn't stand to watch long-form content on this tiny screen. Moreover, where is YouTube? Please end this fight, Amazon and Google. Maybe it will be available in 2018. Until then, recipes from non-Google sites are the killer app for the Spot, and they are a tremendously useful feature.HOW IS THE SOUND?====================I own the Echo Dot (gen 2) and the Echo (gen 1), and the sound of the Echo Spot is somewhere between them. If the Echo Dot is 30 in quality and the Echo is 100, the Spot is probably a 70 or perhaps even 80. It's going to forego a lot of bass richness, but I listened to many hours of music this week and I was pleasantly surprised at how good the sound actually was. It's certainly better than any other speaker I've had in a bedroom or at work, which is where the majority of these will end up. If you want even better sound, then buy a nice Bluetooth speaker as a satellite, but the Echo Spot already sounds as good as the $50 little Bluetooth cubes a co-worker had at my former job. It's got a standard stereo out port and Bluetooth streaming, so if you need better speakers now or down the road, you can expand.WHAT ARE SOME THINGS YOU LIKE?=================================✓ Design, weight, premium feel✓ Very responsive touch screen✓ Lyrics for songs (the killer app for old Christmas carols, wow!)✓ Recipes✓ Video calling (worked well with my Alexa app on my Android phone)✓ Voice drop-in / intercom✓ Custom photo upload for background✓ Simple, uncomplicated UI, and most things, even Wi-Fi setup, don't need the Alexa app--this is a good gift for people who aren't bonded to a smartphone✓ Easily watch Amazon video content (but on a tiny screen)✓ Multi-room features are INCREDIBLE. During setup, I had my Echo Dot in the same room, and Alexa just *knew* (ESP is a great name) which device I was talking to; playing music in all rooms is nifty as well...✓ Mics and voice recognition seem just as good as all the other Echo devices, even though Spot seems to have only 4, not 7 like my original Echo and new Echo Dot both haveTHINGS LESS LIKABLE?======================❌ Power cord is not USB--why can't this just be a USB-C device?!?❌ Not a lot of clock faces, just 6 analog and digital right now; I do LOVE the "bokeh" clock face, though, which is a geeky photographer's term that refers to those out of focus rings made by lens aperture blades❌ Can't watch many video sources, yet❌ Expensive--this thing is as overpriced as the original Echo, so expect it to drop to about half the current level in 1-2 years❌ Screen is silly small for watching longer videos or videos that can't be cropped to circular proportions❌ No way to really "stop" video--it started again on its own today, which was beyond annoying because I had left the room at least 5 minutes beforehand and heard it resume from across the hall❌ UPDATE: You can "tap" anywhere on the touchscreen while the alarm is going off to snooze for 9 minutes. Very cool! Thanks to commenter Smokey DeBear for correcting me. (Original statement, now no longer valid: Utility as an alarm clock relies on using your voice--no dedicated buttons or intuitive way to snooze, etc.)❌ Camera could be a risk for those concerned about privacy and can't be *truly* disabled aside from blackout tape (which apparently stops the motion sensor and auto-brightness as well)ABOUT THE PHOTOS===================I wanted to include some common fruit for size comparison, so the logical sequence is to show you a grapefruit and tangerine so that you can visually see the Spot is about the size of a large orange. My wife then decided that Spot was "lonely" and needed "friends", so the two citrus fruits got faces, courtesy of a black Sharpie. Hopefully she'll keep the marker away from the Spot itself!To show an example of a custom clock face, I then took a photo of the grapefruit with the smiley face and made it the "face" of the Echo Spot. It was already round, so the cropping worked really well. You can upload any photo from your phone and zoom/crop to fit.UPDATE AFTER 5 DAYS====================Everyone who has come over for holiday gatherings has been amazed by the sound quality. It's a tiny form factor for such rich sound.I realized that the motion sensor will enable lyrics display as you walk up to it, waking it from the clock mode if music is playing. Neat!My phone is suddenly becoming less useful to call people because the speakerphone quality of the Echo Spot is just incredible. Everyone I've called says the audio on their side is amazing. Alexa wakes up and processes voice commands so much quicker than "OK Google" on my Nexus 6P, so it's more convenient to call when I'm near an Echo device.The kids love playing 20 questions and The Magic Door with Alexa. The Spot's screen doesn't help much with those, but I can definitely see other games/skills being built to entertain kids (and big kids) for hours. This could be a great homework helper in the future as the ecosystem evolves . . . "Alexa, how do you spell syzygy?" and the word appears on the screen as Alexa reinforces with spoken letters, S-Y-Z-Y-G-Y.UPDATE AFTER 4 WEEKS=====================Things that cracked me up the most: "Alexa, sing a barbershop quartet" and "Alexa, sing auld lang syne." The first is pretty bad, but Auld Lang Syne is FABULOUS and obviously has some human backup singers.Things I'm totally addicted to: I use the Echo Spot as a remote portal to check-in with the kids while I'm working remotely. I "drop in" on their Echo Dot and have been reading aloud to them ("Lord of the Rings," if you're curious) for an hour or so, a few times a week. The speakerphone quality is phenomenal and the connection is very stable. I wouldn't be able to do this on my cellphone.Lists galore: I now have half a dozen lists going because it's so easy to make lists and add stuff via voice. I worry that my short-term memory will be totally gone in a few years as I now depend on virtual assistants for everything . . .ALSO, responding to another reviewer, the clock's time size is big on the INCLUDED clock faces! See the last photo I just uploaded. Amazon must think that if you have a personal photo uploaded, you want the time to be small (which makes sense--you can see your photo better), so if you want the numbers large, just don't upload a personal watchface photo. Maybe they'll give an option to change that in the future, but it's not a big deal, in my opinion. Finally, if you walk up to the Spot and the camera senses your motion, the display will change to the weather or reminders, etc. Therefore: it's only big when it senses no motion (you're far away) and you've got a stock clock face. Pretty smart!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I really like it. No problems at all!
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2020
My dad purchased two of the Echo Spot "Alexa" back in 2018 (because it was cheaper for some reason) and he gave me one of them in 2019. I've had it for about a year now and I haven't had any problems with it. Setting it up was supper easy and quick. It shows me the weather, the news, "Alexa" tips that I could use, and other things.

I paired it with my phone once and used it to play music off of YouTube and I do have to agree with other reviews saying that the Bluetooth volume is low and you really have to put it on high to hear anything. So I just use it to play music off of amazon itself. I don't have amazon prime so it just gives me a playlist of similar music that I asked it to play, which I'm fine with. I haven't used the camera feature because I don't know anyone that as an Echo Spot (but I also don't really care to use the camera). I really enjoy customizing the clock faces/pictures and it gives me updates on any items that I ordered off of amazon. It has a timer and an alarm which I also like and have used on more than one occasion. I've also played around with it a lot, like for example "Alexa, tell me a joke" or "Alexa, tell me a scary story" and stuff like that. The font style and size I'm pretty satisfied with. I've also seen reviews about the screen glitching a few months after purchasing it, but I haven't experienced that.

As you can see, I haven't really used it to its full potential, but I'm still satisfied with the product either way. It's just the right size and fits pretty much anywhere in your house. I would definitely recommend this product.
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