Hagop is passionate about smart home products, especially when it comes to making life easier. He's always eager to try out new technologies to make life easier, in terms of cleaning, automation, and ...

Pick up any Amazon Echo smart speaker or display as part of your Alexa smart home setup, and it does, of course, come with its own built-in audio output—so you can hear Alexa's responses, play your ...

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I’ve had a first-generation Amazon Echo sitting on my desk, serving up jam band and other-genre tunes (along with the weather forecast and other factoids, plus controlling my lights and such) daily ...

Amazon's cheapest Echo device adds Alexa smarts to any speaker with Bluetooth or an aux jack. But is it a better buy than the Dot? Ry Crist Former Senior Editor / Reviews - Labs Originally hailing ...

For all their clever tricks, smart speakers spend most of their time playing music, which presents a problem; many models, especially the inexpensive ones, don’t sound great. But there’s an easy fix: ...

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Amazon launched the Echo Input Portable, a new smart speaker that offers hands-free access to Alexa, in India earlier today. The Input Portable is designed similar to the current Echo lineup that is ...