Echo Dot (3rd Gen, 2018 release) – Smart speaker with Alexa – Charcoal
About this item : Echo Dot (3rd Gen, 2018 release) – Smart speaker with Alexa
- Meet Echo Dot – Our most compact smart speaker that fits perfectly into small spaces.
- Improved speaker quality – Better speaker quality than Echo Dot Gen 2 for richer and louder sound. Pair with a second Echo Dot for stereo sound.
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- Voice control your music – Stream songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Sirius XM, and others.
- Ready to help – Ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, read the news, check the weather, set alarms, control compatible smart home devices, and more.
- Voice control your smart home – Turn on lights, adjust thermostats, lock doors, and more with compatible connected devices. Create routines to start and end your day.
- Connect with others hands-free – Call friends and family who have the Alexa app or an Echo device. Instantly drop in on other rooms in your home or make an announcement to every room with a compatible Echo device.
- 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 – Amazon is not in the business of selling your personal information to others. Built with multiple layers of privacy controls including a mic off button.
Meet Echo Dot : Echo Dot (3rd Gen, 2018 release) – Smart speaker with Alexa
Our most popular Echo is now even better. With a new speaker and design, Echo Dot is a voice-controlled smart speaker with Alexa, perfect for any room. Just ask for music, news, information, and more. You can also drop-in on another Echo device and control compatible smart home devices with your voice.
Alexa, play top hits
Use your voice to play a song, artist, or genre through Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, and others. With compatible Echo devices in different rooms, you can fill your whole home with music. Also listen to Audible, podcasts, radio stations, or pair with Fire TV to voice control movies and entertainment.
Alexa is happy to help
Make your life easier at home. Use your voice to set timers, add items to lists, and create calendar events and reminders. You can also check the news, weather, or traffic. Ask for sports scores, movie showtimes, restaurant hours, or information.
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Voice control more of your home
Manage compatible smart home devices using your voice. Switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie, or tu+rn the thermostat up as you head out.
Keep your family in sync
Use your Alexa devices like an intercom and talk to any room in the house with Drop In and Announcements. Let everyone know dinner is ready, or remind the kids that it’s bedtime. You can also make hands-free calls to friends and family who have the Alexa app or an Echo device in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom to stay in touch with family.
With tens of thousands of skills and counting, Alexa is always getting smarter. Skills are like apps and help you do more, like play relaxing sounds or test your music knowledge. Just say, “Alexa, what are your top skills?”
Alexa for kids and family
Alexa can help kids learn and grow—while having fun along the way. And with free parental controls from Amazon Kids, Alexa will automatically give kid-friendly responses, filter explicit songs and block shopping. Children’s privacy is important to us. Discover how kids can use Alexa, watch helpful how-to videos, get answers to FAQs, and more.
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Designed to protect your privacy
Alexa and Echo devices are built with multiple layers of privacy protection. For example, Echo Dot has a microphone off button that electronically disconnects the microphones. You also have control over your voice recordings.
Technical details : Echo Dot (3rd Gen, 2018 release) – Smart speaker with Alexa
Echo Dot (3rd Gen)
| Size | 3.9” x 3.9” x 1.7” (99 mm x 99 mm x 43 mm) |
| Weight | 10.6 oz. (300 grams) Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process |
| Wi-Fi connectivity | Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (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 Dot or from Echo Dot 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. Supports WiFi, Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh, and Matter controller (Alexa Android app setup only. iOS coming soon) |
| Software Security Updates | This device receives guaranteed software security updates until at least four years after the device is last available for purchase as a new unit on our websites. If you already own an Amazon Echo, visit Manage Your Content and Devices for information specific to your device. |
Normally, my reviews are lengthy, although I would prefer to think of them as “detailed”. With this one, I will be short.
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We just recently purchased this 3rd Gen Echo as our first foray into the voice-activated world. Prior to this, although we are well-aware that our phones listen to us, in my mind, opening our doors to “Ziggy” (as our bedroom one is now called after a well-fought game of Rock, Paper, Scissors with my husband), was paramount to living with a spy. Yes, I am one of those Microsoft and Google detractors because of their intrusiveness, BUT, I digress.
I was home alone when the later-to-be named “Ziggy” arrived. After immediately connecting / pairing it (him?) and accessing several songs which I could think of from Amazon Music, I began pairing it to our security cameras and our numerous smart lights and plugs.
WOW!
Nestled within that ‘wow’ of appreciation, was a sudden sadness. It isn’t that the Echo did not perform well. On the contrary. It is that it performed so well, and that almost IMMEDIATELY upon voicing a command, something happens throughout our home. THIS … for just a moment – made me think of how temporary we are as humans, and the fact that I would not be around in 100 years to see the marvels which are still to unfold in our world. I know, I know.
A bit dramatic or cheesy as your view may be, but it happened. Beyond that, (those of you who have seen the film Don’t Look Up may understand), I thought of our petty difference as humans and how miniscule and unimportant they are, when the truth of the matter is that we really do live in an age where we have it all.
A ‘gadget’ that can summon up those feelings and thoughts, well, that’s one pretty decent gadget.
P.S. Ziggy has SO grown on my husband, he now insists that we also move Alexa into the home, and allow her the run of the rooms Ziggy can’t quite reach.