Amazon’s Echo Dot line has long since been the best starter smart speaker for most, and this year the brand released the 5th iteration of the Echo Dot (and Echo Dot with Clock). While this is a review ...

The Echo and Echo Plus have had a consistent design over the years: a tall cylinder with a glowing light ring and buttons on top. This year’s speaker does away with all that; Amazon opted instead for ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Update, Nov. 12, 2021: Thanks to the Amazon Echo (2020)'s ...

The original Echo was a device that genuinely changed the tech market. Sure, we were all familiar with Siri on iPhones, but the idea of having a voice controlled speaker was new. Since 2014, Amazon ...

After a flurry of complaints about subpar sound quality in the new Amazon Echo — including those of our own in our review — Amazon launched a firmware update to fix the issue. This move by the tech ...

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 ...