Like the larger models, the Echo Dot is wrapped in fabric tightly around the sides. It’s lost that original hockey puck design but has acquired a larger, softer, more curvy figure that looks friendly and approachable in any part of the house. The third-generation Echo Dot shares its design language with the current Echo and that’s no coincidence. Still, let’s find out how it did during its stay at the Digit Test Centre. It’s available only in white and, as of writing this review, in stock again only in late February 2020. The variant with a clock, however, sells for Rs 5,499. It comes in grey, black, purple, and white colour options. If you wait for a grand sale (the way I did), you can get it for as low as Rs 1,999 along with a free smart bulb. So, the clock-less Echo Dot sells for Rs 3,499 as of writing this review. Rs 5,499 is rather steep for the added time display functionalityĪmazon is currently selling the third-generation Echo Dot with an optional digital clock on its website. And that’s exactly what Amazon wanted to create. Sure, it may feature fewer microphones and speakers but it’s a proper Echo device nonetheless, in the same way an iPod nano was considered a proper iPod. With the new third-generation model though, it’s amply clear that the Echo Dot is a shorter, more affordable version of the outgoing Echo. Also, it didn’t help that we only started seeing the Echo Dot in India from the second-generation model on. But this likeness wasn’t always so apparent when the Echo Dot was first released in March 2016. In a manner of speaking, the Echo Dot is to the Echo what the iPod nano was to the original hard drive-driven iPod.
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