The Clock is also not just a clock, it’s a visual display for a variety of features that you often want from a smart speaker but may not want to invest in a smart display to get.įor example, it will display the temperature when you ask it, show how much time is left on a timer, and also indicate the volume level when you raise or lower it manually or with your voice.
Let’s see this LED display in every Dot, heck, in every Echo smart speaker. You can turn it off if you want, so having two models just doesn’t make sense. Herein lies our biggest grip with Dot with Clock, you pay an extra £10 for the clock, which is so useful it really should just be part of the Echo Dot. The Dot’s small size and affordability make it a great device to put in multiple rooms in your house for all the above reasons, but also because of its security features courtesy of Alexa Guard, which mean it can listen for smoke alarms and sounds of glass breaking (with more capabilities coming soon) when you’re not home, and alert you using the Alexa app.
#Echo dot with clock Bluetooth#
Of course, you can play music from it using your streaming service of choice or pairing your Echo with your phone or another speaker over Bluetooth and you can also plug it into better speakers thanks to its 3.5mm aux port. The main reason to get a Dot is still that it comes with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, and Dot with Clock serves up all Alexa’s latest and greatest tricks.įrom controlling smart home devices to keeping your shopping list up to date, acting as an in-home intercom for Drop-In calls or announcements, to doubling as a home phone (you can make phone calls right from the Dot), this diminutive device has a lot of uses beyond being a great clock and good speaker. But once you’re up and running you’ll want to hop in the Alexa app and fiddle with the clock settings, where you can turn on tap to snooze, adjust brightness, and enable auto-brightness to activate the built-in light sensor that dims and adjusts the display to suit the light in the room.Īmazon Echo Dot with Clock 2nd-generation: Features Setup is simple, and exactly the same as with the Echo Dot ( read about it here if you need tips). (Speaking of, a future feature promises that Alexa will be able to react to snores – even run a Routine to play some white noise so your partner doesn’t wake up and smack you). Instead, it has a much softer glow with this basement position, so subtle you can even press the mute button and not be disturbed by the red light that emanates to indicate Alexa is now deaf to your snores. The light ring that indicates what Alexa is thinking is now at the bottom, which is another savvy move for what is undoubtedly the best smart alarm clock you can buy – as it no longer blinds you when you’re lying in bed. The buttons are also closer together and leave the perfect amount of space between them for an invisible snooze button, just tap this fabric area to snooze an alarm without having to mumble any expletives at all. In this model they make a lot of sense as you can feel which button you’re pressing – handy when you’re grappling in the dark. You can also adjust it manually in the app or by using your voice.Īs with the new Dot and the 4th-gen Echo, there are four plastic buttons protruding from the fabric at the top of the speaker – volume up and down, mute, and the action button (for waking up Alexa without calling its name). The small LED display shows you a clock by default, analogue or 24 hour, (more on its other features in a bit) and adapts to the light in your room so you can always see it but won’t be blinded by it at night. The LED display remains the same size and color (just white), and still has adaptive brightness, but it's more prominent thanks to the larger surface area – it also sits slightly higher up, making it a bit more visible.
#Echo dot with clock upgrade#
It also dispenses with the plastic top, sliding it down the bottom and giving the rest of the speaker over to oodles of that trendy fabric material.īonus points to Amazon here for including 100% recycled fabric and 50% recycled plastic – especially as they’re essentially asking us to upgrade to a device that doesn’t do a whole lot differently from its predecessor – except look better. The new Dot design bulks up the speaker from a diminutive 1.9-inch by 1.7-inch hockey puck, into a more bulbous 3.9-inch by 3.5-inch softball-sized device.
#Echo dot with clock full#
We’ve had the new Amazon Echo Dot with Clock by our bed for a few nights now, read on for our full review.Īmazon Echo Dot with Clock 2020: Design and setup In all other elements it’s the same device as the new fourth-gen Echo Dot, but it costs £10 more, only comes in Glacier White or Twilight Blue (no Charcoal option here and Sandstone is only available on the third-gen model). The new 2nd-gen Echo Dot with Clock solves this simple problem by giving you a small LED display that shows the time, as well as a few other tricks. Essential reading: The best smart speakers
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