Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen) review

The Echo Dot 3rd Generation is Amazon’s latest smart speaker offering. It offers a few modest improvements over the previous generations of Echos. The new speaker comes with a sexier form and better sound quality, too.

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Amazon somehow found the way to improve a smart speaker that was already almost perfect. But, the Dot with Clock isn't just great because of the clock. It's great for all the same reasons the Dot 3rd Gen was great: It'll fit anywhere in your house, it sounds great, and Alexa is getting smarter every year.

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Should you buy it? Yes, without a doubt. This is the best-sounding little smart speaker on the market, and you won’t be disappointed.

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If you want to extend Alexa to other parts of your house cheaply and you don’t care about how good the speaker is, the Dot is the way to go.

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While Echo Dot retains all of Echo’s core features, it sacrifices Echo’s large, high-quality audio speaker for a smaller built-in one. So Echo Dot is a fraction of the size, weight and cost of its bigger brother, but at the expense of lower audio quality. But you can connect Echo Dot to external speakers via Bluetooth or a 3.5mm audio cable for an extra boost.

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The third-gen Amazon Echo is a big upgrade on its predecessor, not only in terms of design but audio output, without an increase in price. You can't swap out the fabric this time around, but we doubt the majority of users will miss the feature.

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With a nicer design and vastly improved audio, the third-generation Echo Dot is Amazon's best, cheapest speaker yet.

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The new Amazon Echo Dot delivers dramatically improved sound, making it an even better buy for an entry-level Alexa speaker.

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Making the Echo Dot a speaker that people could actually be satisfied listening to music on is truly just a bit of icing on the cake. Is Alexa a perfect assistant? Far from it. But if having a smart home, rather than a smart assistant, is your goal then the third-generation Echo Dot is almost certainly just what you need. That is, unless you already have a Google-run smart home, of course.

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The new Echo Dot is a slight improvement over the old one in every way. It’s more attractive, sounds better, hears you just as well, still has a 3.5mm socket and Bluetooth audio in and out. It isn’t a patch on the larger Echo speakers, which are almost twice the price, but just about beats its closest rival, the Google Home Mini, on sound and connectivity.

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