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Josefine Jensen
Love!
First smart device in my apt and I love it! Recieved as a gift. Had it set up in no time. Connected the Phillip hue bulbs, cloud cam, and tp outlet with ease! Pulled them all into the Alexa app and was able to set up my routines in minutes! I have the spot in my bedroom and it can hear me down the hall in the living room to turn the lights on and off. Even picks me up at a very low voice when in my room. The sounds quality is good in my opinion and i just love that it has the touch screen with the clock face! The few things i wasn sure of how to set up i realized, i can just ask alexa!! The directions come up typed on the screen and alexa will read them to you as well. Ive only had it for a day now but im loving it so far and know theres so much more to learn!
Dalia Avila
Can function as a cat toy!
Aside from all the positives, including fuller sound than a dot, a crisp display and a perfect bedside form factor - it can also play videos of birds which my cat absolutely loves. I’ll probably be picking up a glass screen protector
Crystal Dawn White
Love the Echo Spot!
The Echo Spot is a well-built compact device, has a very solid feel to it, unlike the Echo Show. The set-up was very easy, especially since Amazon pre-configured the Spot to work with my Amazon account. What made it so smooth was that choosing wifi network and entering the password was done all on the Spot - no need to use the Alexa App. After setup there is a brief video showing you how to do certain things - like how to get to the settings screen by swiping down. It has a capacitive touch screen, and is very responsive. I keep my Echo Spot on my desk, so there was no need for the adjustable stand. The user interface needs some work - it makes minimum use of the fact that the screen is round. For example, the volume slider is a straight line instead of being curved. Since this device has a screen, there ought to be on-screen buttons to snooze or stop alarms instead of saying "Alexa, snooze" or "Alexa, stop". There are only six analog and six digital clock faces, and the digital ones don't have the option for showing 24-hour time (military time). Also, the font size for the digital clocks cannot be enlarged. There is the option of uploading a background image from the Alexa App, but you cannot adjust size or centering once it is uploaded. The audio quality is much better than the Dot's, and is close to the full-sized Echo. In other words, the audio quality is GREAT! I'm an Alexa developer, and can't wait to see what can be done with it once the SDK is updated. Overall, a very good device!
Raygena Claywell Green
NOW that I know how to TURN OFF "things to try", I love it.
NOW that I know how to TURN OFF "things to try", I love it. Previous to this, I was going to send it back. It arrived 2 days before it was supposed to, so I couldn't click on "RETURN ITEM". Called Customer Service, which was a pain, having to look up on Google. . . The short answer: Do it FROM THE DEVICE, not from your phone. Say "Alexa, Go TO Settings" Which seems to take 2 or 3 tries. Choose "HOME AND CLOCK" "HOMECARDS" Pick ROTATE ONCE and select the things YOU would like, like the Weather. I have an Android, and as of today you can NOT change the settings to fix this. It's only on the device. I complained to customer service, they were not even aware of the Android issue. Probably works from iPhone?? Anyway, hope this helps. D from Michigan
Joel Niedo
This by far is the BEST Echo EVER!!!!
I am not one for reviews but I just had to write this. This thing is a work of art. My whole house is a smart house from my locks to my thermostats. I have 1 Echo, 4 Echo Dots and now one Echo Spot. I love this. It works as expected. I am a total Apple Guy but I choose Alexa over Siri any day. Amazon has knocked it out of the park!
Jennifer Treviño Muñeca Azteca
All I Wanted Was A Simple Black & White Clock. (I Figuered It Out)
I have 3 Echo Dots in the house & mom & I really like them. When I heard about this a couple of months ago I jumped right on the pre-order train. It caught my attention because the Echo Show was interesting to me but it was just way to big. I wanted something that I could use as a clock by the bed, currently I was using my Moto 360 watch (it turns into a simple clock dial when docked). So this would replace two things on the stand (my watch as a clock & the Echo Dot). I absolutely LOVE it. / What I really wasn't fond of were the clock dials, all I wanted was a simple clock (all black background & white numbers), sadly that option isn't available as a choice... but there is a work around! As you can see in the pics it's VERY dim at night when the lights are off & it's bright & clearly visible when the lights are on but still stays as a simple black & white clock. For those that want to know how to achieve this: 1.) The main thing is to turn on the "Night Mode" "Nighttime Clock" (pic3) and set it to run 24hrs a day. 2.) Turn on the "Adaptive Brightness" & crank up the brightness, you can see how high I set mine in the pic (pic4), but you can fine tune this setting to your liking (this is the setting that actually controls how bright it is in the day & how dim it is at night). 3.) Choose the "Street Lights" or "Bokeh" digital clock. 4.) That's it, once you make those setting just wait about a minute for it to go back into standby mode and your "simple clock" will fade in. Oh, for those that have an issue with the screen cycling through all the the displays non-stop (Clock-Weather-Things To Try, etc.) & just want it to stay on the clock face of your choosing, the way to achieve that is to go into Settings>Home & Clock>Home Card Preferences, click on "Rotate Once". Hope this helps someone. ;-)
Toni Sandell
Alexa developers - listen to the nearsighted of America!!!!
So far, so much love, with a tiny suggestion - hopefully the Amazon developers read these reviews. Easy peesy set up - I was able to get it up and running and customized in less than 20 minutes - score!!! Paired my bluetooth Thonet and Vander speakers (that also live with my bedroom TV) flawlessly. Figured out how to set recurring and different alarms for weekdays and weekends (after you set the 'single alarm' go to the alexa app under alarms and reminders - you have far more control through the app to easily change that single alarm into a recurring alarm with lots of options). Got a photo uploaded to make a custom clock face (used my photo cloud storage at Prime). Played some Prime music. Watched a little CNN. What isn't to love??? THE FONT SIZE!!!!! It can't be that hard to give us options on font size on the 'personalized' clock. Hey, Amazon developers, not all of us have perfect eyesight, especially at night when the eyeglasses end up on the night stand next to the Spot. Listen to the nearsighted of America, heck, the World, give us a bigger font!!!!! As soon as Amazon addresses this 'you gotta be kidding' fix, I will be changing that 4 star review to a 5!!! Edit: They listened!!! There is now a much bigger font, very similar to what I photoshopped in my ‘wish’ photo, and it can turn red at night. A++ and I changed my rating to five stars. I really like this little spot, we have been buying more Alexa compatible items and our ‘smart home’ is really coming together. And for all of my ‘commentors’ who suggested just asking Alexa what time it is, I would rather not wake up my guy in the middle of the night.
Alanna Medlock
Alexa is looking SEXY!
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Yhumie Arevalo Chavez
REVIEW UPDATED! Still Adorable and Smart as a Whip!
PROS: Small (~4") Echo device with excellent voice recognition, color touch screen and camera is perfect for small places like bed-side table or kitchen counter. Good sound and image quality for such a small device. Constant software updates allow for almost limitless possibilities for uses now and in the future. In fact, many criticisms of early reviews have already been addressed and corrected. CONS: Not many and those that exist are, for the most part, software related and fixable by Amazon in the near future or IMHO, minor. Keep in mind that although this can play music, display videos, and make phone calls, the Spot is not a high res TV, a large entertainment center, a high fidelity listening device, or a smart phone. Expectations should be based on the fact that the Spot is a 4" device with a 1.4" speaker and a 2.5" screen. REVIEW UPDATE JULY/9/2018: I still love the Spot. I use it for a bedside "smart" clock radio, and I am extremely happy with it. What does it do? It wakes me up. It plays music. It displays the time. It answers questions, mostly about the current weather conditions. I don't use it to teleconference, watch movies or videos, or call people's cell phones. I have the camera turned off. It's on my bedside table....Yuk! No always on camera, thank you! As suspected, Amazon has added enhancements and fixed glitches with software upgrades. Complaints about the home screen clock face? Now there are a huge amount of customize able choices one can select. You can pick a background pattern, photo, or color, the type of clock hands or digital display, and whether there should be a tiny window for the date. My biggest complaint is with the music it plays. I often have trouble getting Alexa to play the music I want. One has to ask Alexa properly, in the correct order. You have to say, "Alexa, Play songs by Bonnie Raitt." Or "Alexa, Play songs from my Modern Blues Playlist by Bonnie Raitt." Asking "Alexa, Play Bonnie Raitt" might just get a "Sorry! There are no songs called Bonnie Raitt" response. Things can get far trickier when you want to listen to a particular symphony by Beethoven. Another issue is that "Shuffle" is not random. The shuffled songs are always played in the exact same order, every time they are played. ORIGINAL DECEMBER 21, 2018 REVIEW: THINGS TO KNOW: 1) The Spot has four types of controls, which often overlap in purpose and function: a) Physical buttons on the top allow you to raise and lower the sound, turn the camera on and off. b) Voice recognition: "Alexa, raise the sound," "Alexa, show me the current temperature," "Alexa, play modern blues," c) Touch screen: ---Swipe down to reveal a settings menu. Spend at least a few minutes exploring this menu and filling in important information like time zone and your location. By going through each setting, you will be able to customize many if not most of Spot's offerings. ---Touch the screen when music is playing to see title of artist, various play functions, and lyrics if available. ---Touch the screen for "snooze" when the alarm is going off. d) The Alexa app which can be downloaded to your smart phone or tablet. This is not entirely necessary for the Spot. 2) If you want the Spot to do something, tell it to do it. If the clock is not showing on the screen, say "Alexa, show the clock." If you want to know the current temperature say "Alexa, what is the current temperature." If you want it to stop rotating the dopey "Trending Topics" screen say "Alexa, stop showing the "Trending Topics" screen." 3) The quality of the screen is pretty good but not so good that you will want to watch a full length video. It's good enough for video calling, looking at album art, reading lyrics, glancing at the temperature, following a recipe. 4) The quality of the sound is pretty good. If you consider yourself an audiophile and are looking for a top quality audio system to listen to The Emperor Concerto with Artur Rubenstein, the Spot is absolutely not going to do it for you. Also, the Spot does not sound like a Bose. If you want or need fabulous sound quality, get a Bose. If you want an all purpose, small device that sounds good, the Spot's for you. REVIEW: I've been looking for a bed-side clock radio for about a year and just couldn't decide on anything. Like Goldilocks, the choices were either too big/too small/or way too last century. The minute I saw the Echo Spot, my heart did a flip! It was perfect. First of all, the Spot is darned cute...in a small, round, orb-stylish way. My bedside table has a rim around it, so I decided to purchase the Echo Spot Adjustable Stand - White which lifts the Echo up about 1 1/2" and allows the Spot to tilt forward and back. Set up is a snap. You plug it in, and Spot comes to life. The touch screen lights up and Spot talks to you. You pick your WiFi from a list, enter your WiFi password, and wait a minute or so while the software updates. While waiting you stare at the Spot and admire its adorableness. When the software is updated, you answer a few questions and before you know it, you and Spot are going steady and Spot has become the boss of you. To change settings you swipe down on the screen to see the settings menu. It is important to go into Settings and set your preferences. For now, here are six digital and six analog clock face selections for the home screen. I picked an old fashioned analog clock face with a sweep second hand and a small window for the date. You can also use a photo for the home screen. The home screen clock alternates with several other info screens. One shows the current temperature, the time, the moon phase, and name of your city/location. Another gives suggestions of things or "Skills" to ask Spot to do for you. Another, which I quickly turned off, announces trending topics. I just didn't find "Scientists find moth not seen in 10 years" something I needed to see or even know. Tune In Radio (which is free) provides all the radio stations I like to listen to. I ask Spot: "Alexa, play 1010 WINS on TuneIn" and away we go. My only complaint is that there is an obvious bias to sign one up for Amazon Music Unlimited. Some requests for songs bump up against an advertisement for this subscription streaming service. I have a Prime membership and an Amazon Music account. That should be enough for now. For now, Spot and I are in our honeymoon period and nothing is going to get me down.
Precious Sufiah
Must have item for any home
I love the new AMAZON SPOT, truly this item is fantastic, and cam makes life so much easier. I have been using Alexa for a while now and using her is kind of second nature to me. Every morning she will read my news that I have selected inform me about the weather and give me all the details that I need to now. And NOW I can drop in and make phone call see my dog or talk to my family if I have to. THIS IS AWESOME I understand that many media communities have stated that the "Drop-in" feature of the Echos is a bit "creepy" and I can see their points. However; Here is a different perspective. My Grandmom is now about 95 years old, and she has a short-term memory, she is in high spirits though I really can't teach her anything technical, such as using a phone or pressing a memory dial. So what can she do in an emergency situation or if I need to make sure she takes her medication. Therefore I say with an extreme gratitude to Amazon that, Thank You Amazon for this for all the time that you have put in to create such a fantastic item and making my Grandmom happy. I Personally am enjoying all of the other amazing features of an Alexa with an addition of the screen, using her with all my daily need and making my home automated. Amazon Spot is absolutely a quite a fantastic platform. In my house, I have added a Pioneer bookshelf stereo system so that I can be listening to Spotify and Pandora. From now all I have to say is "Alexa, connect to Bluetooth," the stereo Bluetooth will get enabled with that command, the Spot will wake up the Pioneer, and start playing the sound. THIS IS MAGICAL