Earlier this year, I reviewed the Amazon Echo Dot, a smaller version of the company’s full-size wireless speaker with a voice-controlled assistant. The Dot lacked the room-filling sound of the larger Echo, but it still had all of the same smarts: you could use it to set timers, perform unit conversions, order a pizza, call an Uber, or answer random trivia, all hands-free. I found it best for controlling smarthome appliances — it’s far easier to use your voice to turn smartlights on than to dig out your phone and load up an app, for example. I called it the future of the smarthome interface.
But based on how Amazon announced and sold the Echo Dot, it was hard to tell that the company felt the same way. When it was introduced in March of...
Amazon’s simpler, cheaper Echo Dot is still pretty great
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