The fourth-gen and third-gen Dots have the audio jack, so you’re not out of luck if you want this feature. If I could choose which devices connected to the Dot — and, say, just put my smart lights on it — this would be more helpful to me. We rate sound quality using a professional panel of five expert listeners with a range of ages and musical tastes. doesn’t sound much different from the previous version, but its revised LED display is far more useful with more to show than just the time, and new motion sensors let you interact with the speaker with a tap.

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The Echo, which is only a bit more if you catch a good sale, does a much better job as an all-in-one device.The Echo Dot with Clock has long been my favorite small smart speaker, and with these improvements, it’s now my go-to smart alarm clock. In theory, it's supposed to reduce all the confusion that stems from the many competing standards devices use to talk to each other. The Reducing CO2 label applies to products certified by the Carbon Trust, that are lowering their carbon emissions year after year for the full life cycle of the product. It still requires a somewhat hefty tap, but you can tap mostly anywhere on the speaker to get the response you want. Most of these features are comparable with those available to Google Assistant and Google's Nest line of smart devices.

The speaker’s microphones are always listening for the wake word or trigger sounds unless you mute the device using the physical mute button or by telling Alexa to mute. My colleague Dan Seifert also saw similar speed drops when testing a fifth-gen Dot in his house on an Eero network. Apparently the 5th gen has a larger speaker/woofer and after comparing the 4th and the 5th gen together I can confirm the sound quailty is slightly better with particularly a better bass ) the difference in quality is NOT a huge jump from the gen 4 but still noticeably better , and is massively better than the 3rd gen Dot.Your speeds on a connected device are limited to 100 Mbps, and you can't hardwire your Echo Dot into your network using Ethernet. All the Dot with Clock's other features, such as setting it up as a stereo pair, adjusting wake words, or using the built-in Guard functionality to alert you to potential problems, exist on other Echo speakers. The last thing is use it for is that I have the DOT on a wall mount which obscures the light ring somewhat, the display shows a Bell symbol just underneath the clock making you able to see if you have received a notification or similar. I set it to turn up the AC when it gets too warm in the kitchen, and it worked reliably without me having to ask Alexa to adjust the Ecobee thermostat while I toiled over a hot stove.