Amazon Echo Dot (4th gen.)
Amazon AlexaProduct details
Complete any room with Alexa. The most popular smart speaker has a straightforward, compact design, making it ideal for small rooms. With its clear sound and balanced bass response, it delivers rich sound that you can enjoy anywhere in your home.
Ask Alexa for a song, an artist or a style of music on Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer and many more. With multiple compatible echo devices in different rooms, multiroom music lets you fill the entire house with music. Listen to Audible, radio stations, podcasts and more.
Make your life at home easier. Use your voice to set timers, update lists, ask questions or create calendar entries and reminders. Listen to the news, weather forecast or traffic information and use tens of thousands of Alexa skills, such as TV DIGITAL or Fitbit.
Connect directly via drop in to compatible echo devices in other rooms in your home. Make an announcement when dinner is ready or remind children that it is bedtime. Stay in touch with friends and family by making calls using your voice alone. Learn more.
| Smart home ecosystem | Amazon Alexa |
| Streaming media provider | Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify |
| Wireless transmission | Bluetooth, Wi-Fi |
| Item number | 14389578 |
Reviews & Ratings
Wireless speakers can play music from many sources. Our wireless speaker test shows which speakers sound very good - and why expensive does not automatically mean good. The speakers are controlled via app or voice assistant. In the latest test, Stiftung Warentest tested twelve wireless speakers from Amazon, Audio Pro, Bang & Olufsen, Bose, Denon, Google, Ikea, Philips, Sonos, Sony, Teufel and Xiaomi.
Alexa is strongest with audio content, while Siri is really weak. The reverse is true for voice searches for video content on the TV. Google is somewhere in the middle.
The fourth generation of the Amazon Echo is not a sound miracle either, but it sounds decent for its price and size. Operation and voice recognition work well.
The fourth generation of the Amazon Echo is the best smart home assistant in 2020. The speaker costs around 100 euros and has a lot to offer in return. Alexa plays music, answers questions, reads out news and weather reports and controls your smart home devices. Thanks to the new arrangement of the integrated speakers (Amazon changed the shape from cylinder to sphere), the sound is even more massive...
Those who already rely entirely on Siri, iPhone, iPad and Apple's music streaming service can expand their Apple system with the HomePod mini, a small smart speaker that doesn't sound bad for its size. Those who want to rely on the superior capabilities of Alexa, on the other hand, will find the fourth-generation Echo Dot to be a comparatively inexpensive and much more versatile entry-level device,...