Amazon Echo Dot (newest model) - Vibrant sounding speaker with Alexa+ Early Access, Great for bedrooms, dining rooms and offi
4.7 | 183,262 ratings
Price: 49.99
Last update: 02-03-2026
About this item
- Our best sounding Echo Dot yet – Enjoy an improved audio experience compared to any previous Echo Dot with Alexa for clearer vocals, deeper bass and vibrant sound in any room.
- Your favorite music and content – Play music, audiobooks, and podcasts from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and others or via Bluetooth throughout your home.
- Alexa is happy to help – Ask Alexa for weather updates and to set hands-free timers, get answers to your questions and even hear jokes. Need a few extra minutes in the morning? Just tap your Echo Dot to snooze your alarm.
- Keep your home comfortable – Control compatible smart home devices with your voice and routines triggered by built-in motion or indoor temperature sensors. Create routines to automatically turn on lights when you walk into a room, or start a fan if the inside temperature goes above your comfort zone.
- 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.
- Do more with device pairing– Fill your home with music using compatible Echo devices in different rooms, create a home theatre system with Fire TV, or extend wifi coverage with a compatible eero network so you can say goodbye to drop-offs and buffering.
Top reviews from the United States
- Kindle CustomerGreat sound, easy to use.This is my 1st echo device. I use my phone constantly to look up everything and thought this would be so much easier and it is!! I love it. I have an Amazon account, who doesn’t, so when ordering check the box for easy set up. I opened the box, plugged it in and the system started running and connected to my wifi seamlessly. All I did was read each page and press continue as system also synced to my phone when I downloaded the app. I’m older so being able to set this up by myself, no grand kids around, was wonderful. Amazon has the best interface of all shopping apps for sure, although streaming could use some help, haha. I’ve been using the Alexa echo dot non stop, music has a beautiful sound and I looked up a recipe, weather and I don’t know why I waited so long to get one. Great buys right now too. Worth the price and small size that fits anywhere you can plug in.
- Carlos eduardo sanchez marquezGreat Sound in a Compact DeviceI’m really impressed with the Echo Dot. Its sound is surprisingly powerful and clear for such a compact device, perfect for bedrooms or office spaces. Alexa responds quickly, understands commands well, and makes tasks like playing music, checking the weather, or controlling smart devices effortless. The charcoal design looks modern and fits any room. It’s practical, reliable, and very easy to set up. An excellent choice for anyone seeking convenience and great audio in a small format.
- JavierGreat addition!Having purchased this Echo device in 2023, I have been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to provide a sincere review. After utilizing it on a daily basis, I must express my satisfaction with its performance. This particular Echo has proven to be an exceptional “shower echo,” seamlessly integrated into my daily routine. It has consistently demonstrated its resilience in various conditions, including hot, cold, and steam showers, without compromising its functionality, volume, or connectivity. In conclusion, I highly recommend this product.
- ZombienkongenIs good. ReallyWorks just fine.
Pretty good speaker.
Sounds nice at lower volumes.
No speaker sounds good when at full blast.
I like this one.
Update.
Connected to my tv as a secondary to the sound bar,
I’m surprised what a good idea that was.
It actually adds to the overall sound.
P.s. I listen to a lot of punk, if you don’t
Try to irritate the neighbors, this works very nicely.
Admittedly,
I usually listen to headphones or a much larger speaker.
But, no complaints. - willBuy itI recently switched to the Amazon echosystem and wow. From a budget perspective, this is fantastic. Some cheap smart bulbs and an echo later and you've basically setup a cool little smart home automation setup. Connecting it to devices is simple - like dummy simple. Half the time it just does it for you. I remember whispering to turn off the lights and Alexa whispered back it was hilariously unexpected. Me laughing woke up my wife, not Alexa. The irony.
The sound quality is way better than our Samsung TV so we just use the one but now I'm buying another and possibly more to create a little home theater setup. I'm really impressed by this product. - JerryPerfect product for home comfort.Super cool item and I had 2 other Echo Dot and it is just what I am looking for. Very easy to use and the voice recognition is just great. I had fun using this by speaking the prompts that I wanted to control. The quality is just amazing. Very highly recommended.
- Thailin valdes castilloGreat Sound and Very Helpful for Everyday UseThe Amazon Echo Dot is a great smart speaker with clear sound and a strong bass for its size. Alexa responds quickly and makes daily tasks easier, like setting reminders, playing music, checking the weather, or controlling smart home devices. The device is compact, looks nice in any room, and the setup is very simple. Overall, it’s a useful and reliable speaker that adds a lot of convenience to everyday life.
- Wade MannsAnother great smart home purchase, to say the least.My previous Echo Dot, purchased back in 2018, was a third-generation. It was a white shuffleboard stone covered in cloth and it is amazing. I'll never say it's not; in fact it's so amazing that I passed it on to my mom and she enjoys it a great deal.
So, my main motivation for purchasing this, the fifth generation issued in 2022 – aside from familiarity with the brand – was I needed a Matter hub so my then-incoming Nanoleaf smart lightbulbs could work with my voice. But of course it is so much more.
First thing I see is that the Echo Dot is no longer a white shuffleboard stone but is a smaller, navy blue sphere. Aside from being my favorite color, and thus very pleasing to look at, I find it that it is not practical any longer to mount on my wall because of its increased focus on the forward firing speaker; if I had mounted it, it would not be effective in spreading out to my entire room – the top of the speaker is reserved for the buttons which were present on the third-generation: volume up, volume down, action/wake and mute microphone, which leave no room for a speaker in that area. So it sits pretty on my side table facing the rest of my room, and does fine.
First thing I hear is the sound quality is so much better than the third-generation Dot. The third-generation was okay in that regard, but it tended to sound a little overexposed when the volume was up high. Now, I don't find myself connecting via Bluetooth to my sound bar nearly as much because the speaker quality is just that good. The quiet parts of music are quiet and calming the way they should be, but the bass thumps quite effectively, surprisingly for such a small and lightweight speaker.
So after I'd established the smart speaker in my room for about a month, I felt the time was right to go ahead and get my Nanoleaf Essentials bulbs, to upgrade the ones that I had no longer been able to use for a year since they had stopped working with any voices assistants, to facilitate compatibility with the then upcoming network standard: Matter. I am very happy to say that Matter compatibility is there and it is wonderful.
I can't speak for the internal workings because I'm not an engineer; I will say – though I may be wrong about this – that I believe it would be more rocky if I did not have a Thread Border Router already in the form of my Nanoleaf shapes controller; I have the shapes arrangement atop my desk called Dragon, and it has worked wonderfully for me since around last September, and only – at this point anyway – required regular firmware updates to be compatible with ongoing technology.
Now, I'll tell you the procedure for adding the Nanoleaf Essentials bulbs to Alexa via Matter – I would assume by extension any Matter device, providing you have a thread border router like I mentioned before. After adding the bulbs to the iOS Nanoleaf app as normal – also updating the firmware for each bulb via said app! I have a feeling that was very important – add them also to Alexa via the Add Device flow, one at a time. There was a menu item that showed itself at the top telling me that it had detected each new bulb on my network and I only had to select that item to add it, scan the QR code on the sticker that came with the bulbs (I applied the sticker to a sheet of paper and labeled it according to the positions of the bulbs) and wait just a bit for it to be connected and it just works!
Another new feature which the third-generation did not have is a temperature sensor! After a short period of calibration after plugging the device in, Alexa will be able to tell you the temperature of the room that it is situated in! I ask her for this often when I'm trying to determine how best to cool my room during these hot summer months. When my door's closed during the day, my room can get up to mid 80s, which is horrible, but with the door open to allow a draft and breeze, the temperature's equalized with the rest of the house and I get mid to upper 70s which is much better.
There is an ultrasound presence sensor, which sounds not unlike sonar, which I have not had a use for yet, but I imagine routines can be enabled or suppressed with its use.
One borderline negative thing I will say about it which I'm okay with because, again, I have Bluetooth connections – they eliminated the 3.5 mm jack to save internal space inside the device, so you will no longer be able to directly connect external speakers, as I did at one point before I had to change that arrangement.
Once again, Amazon comes through with flying colors with their products, helping make our homes smarter and more amazing and just better to live in! Get this speaker if you are looking to build a smart home, and for best results, get more than one so you can use the awesome "drop-in" intercom system, and truly awaken the potential of the smart home!