Introducing a smart speaker to a room can be a real quality-of-life upgrade. You can use it to play music, set a timer, control smart lights, or ask any question that comes to mind (which usually means “Hey, what’s the weather today?”)
And if this is your first time buying a smart speaker, you can’t go wrong with Amazon’s Echo range, which is deeply discounted right now for the October Prime Day sale.
The Echo Dot is Amazon’s smallest and cheapest smart speaker with Alexa built-in. It retails for $49.99, but is currently discounted to just $22.99. It’s available in three colors: Charcoal, Deep Sea Blue, and Glacier White. For less than $25, you get a full-fledged smart speaker that can play music, control smart lights, and talk to other Echo devices as well. There’s also a button to instantly disable the microphone if you don’t want Echo to hear you. (Privacy controls are always welcome.)
Echo Dot also supports multi-room audio, so if you decide to pick up more than one, you can place them across your kitchen, living room, and bedroom. Echo can also control your Fire TV, and has an eero wifi extender built-in. If you use the Eero mesh network, you can extend the wifi range up to 1,000 square feet with 100 Mbps speeds simply by adding an Echo Dot to the mix.
It’s not just the Echo Dot: Amazon’s entire range of Echo products are deeply discounted for Oct. 10 and 11. Here are the best deals: