Amazon Echo (4th Gen) Smart Home Hub with Alexa - Charcoal

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] You must download the Alexa app, must have an existing account or make a new one. Then set it up and use WiFi. After the setup, you can play music. You can have your own grocery list, playlist and much more for lists. You can have Shopify, pandora and many more for listening to music but you have to connect to your account. It’s a very advance piece of technology. I love using it for music, and my lists that I have. Very easy to use, all you have to say is “Alexa” then whatever you want to do. Alexa is my favorite of all, I definitely need one in my bathrooms and kitchen. The do come in handy. I definitely recommend this to anyone looking for one!!!

An outstanding speaker/smart hub device, it's easily likable through the Alexa app. The sound quality is outstanding and blows any other speaker of similar size out of the water, the only downside is that the audio is significantly lower in quality if it is only linked via Bluetooth but it's still good quality just better if it's linked to a wifi network. The equalizer is easy to use and provides ample sound experience and immersion suitable for any scenario.

The Echo 4th Gen is pretty much exactly what it is advertised to be. There's definently an improvement in sound quality over the previous generations of the device, but my issue never really had anything to do with the sound quality of the Echo as a whole but more the incompatibility of the Alexa platform to talk nicely to non- Amazon speakers. Good quality for the price.

I picked up the 4th Gen Echo because our 1st Gen Echo no longer seemed to work with the Plex Skill. With the 4th Gen Echo we can once again use the Plex Skill to play music from our Plex library. That is the extend of the good of the 4th Gen over the 1st Gen Echo in my view. I preferred cylindrical shape, with twist volume control on the top and with speakers pointed in all directions instead of just one direction. As an example of paying attention to details, the dark 1st Gen Echo came with a dark power cord. It appears that all colors of the 4th Gen Echo come with a white power cord. Amazon is scrimping to save a few pennies. The charcoal Echo should have a charcoal colored power cord in my view.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] The 4th Generation Amazon Echo is a great addition to any room! I love the modern design, it can fit on any table, counter or shelf. The cord is pretty long which is a nice bonus if your outlet isn't right by the device. The sounds is top notch! You definitely get a nice balanced mix of sound all over the room the device is in. There are so many things that Alexa can do now, including pairing your smart devices with Alexa. This past Christmas, we really enjoyed having our Christmas tree plugged into the smart plug so we just asked our Amazon Echo to turn our tree on for us. My kids really enjoy asking Alexa to tell them a joke or to play a silly song. You can even add a kids feature to your Amazon Echo to make it kid friendly which is definitely a bonus feature if you have children. You can make calls from your Echo or ask Alexa to order you things from Amazon. I love getting notifications from Alexa that I might be running low on something that I order regularly and she will ask me if I want her to order that item for me. Treat your self this new year to the 4th generation Amazon Echo or give it to someone as a present, either way, it's a win/win for you and the receiver of the gift!