Amazon’s Echo Pop And Dot Speakers Are The Cheapest They’ve Been In Months

The Echo Pop is $15 off.

The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon’s entry-level smart speakers, and some are presently connected waste up of Amazon’s October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days), which officially kicks disconnected connected October 7th. Both speakers are presently discounted to their lowest prices since nan mediate of June, which intends they’re beating their summertime Prime Day prices. Both speakers are screen-free, and let you to usage Amazon Alexa to power compatible smart location devices, group timers, and inquire for accusation astir nan news, weather, and different goings-on. We’ve recovered nan aforesaid discounts astatine Best Buy and Target, successful lawsuit you’d for illustration to shop there. 

The Echo Pop is Amazon’s cheapest Echo speaker, but it tin do astir of nan tasks arsenic nan much costly exemplary — astatine slightest those without a surface — and you tin prime 1 up connected waste for $24.99 ($15 off) astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. The Pop is Amazon’s slightest costly speaker, and while it won’t triumph immoderate awards for audiophile-level sound quality, it’s perfectly serviceable for intelligibly announcing nan answers to your questions aliases sounding an siren astatine nan extremity of your timer. 

You tin usage nan Echo Pop to power smart location accessories, including plugs, ray bulbs, thermostats, and moreover a microwave, pinch your voice. Most Echo speakers besides let you to trigger Alexa by pushing a dedicated button, but nan Pop doesn’t person one. It’s besides compatible pinch Alexa Plus — Amazon’s updated, generative AI-powered sound adjunct — which is presently successful early entree and was deed aliases miss successful our tests. 

The speaker tin beryllium utilized to widen nan scope of an Eero Wi-Fi system by up to 1,000 quadrate feet, astatine speeds up to 100Mbps, which makes it a coagulated web scope extender if you’re looking to destruct net dormant zones. If you want a smart speaker for turning disconnected nan smart lights successful your chamber utilizing your voice, aliases asking for specifications astir nan upwind while you determine what to deterioration for nan day, it’s a coagulated choice.

The fifth-generation Echo Dot is a better-sounding speaker and much tin smart location hub than nan Pop, and it’s connected waste for $34.99 ($15 off) astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. The latest Echo Dot has built-in mobility and somesthesia sensors, which tin activate compatible smart location accessories erstwhile tripped — Amazon gives nan illustration of turning connected a instrumentality erstwhile nan room gets excessively hot. You’ll request further hardware to return advantage of nan sensors, but it’s bully to person a smart location speaker that’s fresh to activity pinch arsenic galore accessories arsenic possible.

Those sensors are besides recovered successful nan Echo Spot, but that smart location speaker is much costly and has a screen. As pinch nan Pop, nan fifth-generation Echo Dot is compatible pinch Alexa Plus, and tin widen nan scope of an Eero Wi-Fi web by up to 1,000 quadrate feet astatine speeds up to 100Mbps. We put nan Echo Pop and Echo Dot against 1 different side-by-side in our review of nan Pop, and recovered nan Dot’s smaller-sized speaker had amended sound (especially bass). 

Neither will rustle your socks off, but nan Echo Dot is still nan amended prime for casual euphony listening. The fifth-generation Echo Dot is simply a bully smart location speaker for its price, and 1 of nan champion early October Prime Day deals we’ve seen.