The Echo Spot is just $45, beating its Black Friday price

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If you privation a inexpensive acquisition that feels expensive, the Echo Spot is a large pick. The versatile astute show tin grip dozens of mundane tasks, and close present it’s backmost astatine its all-time debased of $44.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. That really beats its Black Friday and Cyber Monday pricing and marks the archetypal clip it’s dropped this debased since Prime Day.

Amazon Echo Spot

Photo of an Echo Spot sitting connected a nightstand.

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I’ve ever thought of my (ancient) Echo Show 8 and Echo Pop arsenic tiny integer assistants that assistance maine get done the day, which is wherefore Echo devices are immoderate of my favourite gadgets. The latest Spot benignant of combines the champion of some worlds; it’s tiny capable that it won’t clutter your nightstand similar a astute display, for example. Yet it besides offers a customizable 2.83-inch screen, letting you cheque adjuvant accusation similar the weather, timers, reminders, and calendar astatine a glimpse — which you can’t connected a astute talker similar the Echo Pop. And due to the fact that there’s nary camera, you don’t person to interest astir covering thing up for the involvement of privacy.

At the aforesaid time, it delivers everything you’d privation from an Alexa-enabled speaker. It tin aftermath you mildly with euphony oregon alarms, and you tin usage it to crook connected the lights, set the thermostat, fastener the doors, oregon power different smart-home devices earlier you’ve adjacent gotten retired of bed. You tin adjacent usage it to telephone different Echo devices astir your location and inquire Alexa questions, and adjacent recipes. And you can, of course, perceive to podcasts, get sports scores, and play games, making it a acquisition that’s some applicable and fun.

Read our Echo Spot review.

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