Take advantage of the Amazon sales on the brand's connected devices! The Echo Dot smart speaker is the most compact of Amazon's connected speakers. She is the little sister of the Amazon Echo. For Amazon summer sales, the merchant offers it at 24.99 euros instead of 59.99 euros. It is the most popular enclosure of the American giant. It is designed so that it can be placed in any room of your home and always be as discreet. This small pebble slightly domed and dressed in anthracite fabric indeed measures only 99 x 41 mm and weighs only 300 g. The 3rd generation Echo Dot connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi and gives you access to Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa. On top there is a light circle and four physical keys. The first lets you know the action in progress (blue Alexa ring is listening to you, red microphone cut ring, green flashing you have a call, etc.). As for the buttons, two allow you to increase and decrease the volume of the music that you will ask it to play or voice, one to mute the microphone and the last to address the assistant without having to say "Alexa "
That said, you can still choose to control it by voice. Among the many tasks available from the Echo Dot, it will be possible to ask Alexa to control the connected devices in your home, to write down a shopping list or to set an alarm clock because the speaker also displays the time. And thanks to a sensor, the brightness of the display will adapt according to the time of day and night. Good to know, the Echo Dot can be used as a hands-free kit and a 3.5 mm mini-jack output allows you to use the device with external speakers and enjoy more powerful sound. However, a cable will have to be added because none is provided.
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Amazon's Echo Show 5 is also on sale
This is an original device also available during the Amazon sales at low prices. Its format is reminiscent of a tablet or clock radio. In reality the Echo Show 5 from Amazon is a smart screen and it is sold at a price of 69.99 euros instead of 89.99 euros on the website of the American giant. This object has a 5.5 inch rectangular slab but has a slightly triangular shape which allows it to be placed on a table or shelf without the risk of it tipping over. It measures 148 x 86 x 73 mm and weighs approximately 410 g. As it does not run on battery, it should be placed near an AC outlet. The cable plugs into the back, next to the micro-USB port and the 3.5mm headphone output. It also has a 1 Mpix camera for video calls. This camera can also be hidden via a button located on the top of the Echo Show next to the two adjusting the volume and that allowing to cut the microphone.
So the primary role of the Echo Show 5 is to allow you to interact with other people through voice or video calls provided they are equipped with a compatible Echo device or the Alexa app or Skype. Another role of this object: to allow you to access thanks to Alexa, the personal assistant of Amazon, to many services. You can listen to music on Deezer with the cover on the screen, prepare a Marmiton recipe by following it step by step on the screen, watch a series of Amazon Prime videos, check the weather forecast… Other function of the 'Echo Show 5: allow you to control, still thanks to Alexa, the connected devices of your home. Finally, it can serve as an alarm clock and allow you to start the day gently by diffusing daylight instead of a loud ringing.
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