Echo Dot (3rd Gen) – Smart speaker with Alexa - Charcoal Fabric
- Echo Dot is our most popular voice-controlled speaker, now with improved sound and a new design.
- Ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, find recipes, read the news, check the weather, set alarms, control compatible smart home devices and more.
- Stream songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, TuneIn and others through the built-in speaker with a fuller sound. Services may require subscriptions or other fees.
- Instantly drop in on other rooms in your home or make an announcement to every room with an Echo. Make calls and send messages between supported Echo devices and the Alexa App.
- Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new features and skills, like Fitbit for tracking your fitness, NextThere for planning your commute, Sleep and Relaxation sounds for better sleep, and fun games for the family.
- With 4 far-field microphones, Alexa can hear you from across the room. And with compatible Echo devices in different rooms, you can fill your whole home with music.
- You can also connect to your own speakers over Bluetooth or with a 3.5 mm audio cable.
- Use your voice to turn on lights, adjust thermostats, control your TV and more, with compatible connected smart home devices.
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Our most popular Echo is now even better. With a new speaker and design, Echo Dot is a voice-controlled smart speaker with Alexa and perfect for any room. Just ask for music, news, information, and more. You can also control compatible smart home devices with your voice. |
Use your voice to play a song, artist, or genre through Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, TuneIn and others. And with compatible Echo devices in different rooms, you can fill your whole home with music. Also listen to Audible, podcasts or radio stations. |
Make your life easier at home. Use your voice to set timers, add items to lists and create calendar events and reminders. You can also check the news, weather or traffic. Ask for sports scores, movie times, restaurant hours or information.
Switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the coffee maker on your way to the kitchen, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie — all without lifting a finger. Control multiple devices with a single voice command, like switching off the TV and turning off the lights at night.
Control multiple devices with a single voice command, like locking the doors and turning off the lights at night. Learn more
Use Drop In to instantly connect to another compatible Echo at home or send an announcement across Echo devices, such as calling the family for dinner or reminding the kids to go to sleep. You can also call friends and family who have a supported Echo device or the Alexa App. Plus, now with Skype calling stay in touch with friends and family in over 150 countries.
Alexa has thousands of skills and counting. Skills are like apps that help you do more, such as booking an Uber, meditating with Headspace, falling asleep to rain sounds and more. Just say “Alexa, help me get started with skills.”
New skills are being added all the time. Discover them in the skills section of the Alexa app or visit the skills store.
Designed to protect your privacyAlexa and Echo devices are built with multiple layers of privacy protection. For example, Echo Dot has a microphone off button that electronically disconnects the microphones. You also have control over your voice recordings. You can view, hear, or delete them at any time. Learn more. |
Simple to Set Up & Use
When you are running low on household essentials, Alexa makes it easy to replenish your pantry. You can add everything from batteries to nappies to your Amazon Cart, reorder favourite products from Amazon and ask Alexa the status of your recent Amazon orders.
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Alexa built in |
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Speakers | 1.6" speaker | 1.6" speaker | 3.0” woofer and dual 0.8" tweeters | 1" tweeter, three 2" mid-range speakers, and 5.25" woofer |
Line in/ out | 3.5 mm line out | 3.5 mm line out | 3.5 mm line in/out | 3.5 mm or mini-optical Toslink line in |
Dolby technology | Dolby audio | Dolby Atmos | ||
Built-in Zigbee smart home hub |
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LED clock display | Featured on Echo dot with clock | Featured on Echo dot with clock |
Technical Details
Echo Dot
Size |
49 mm x 99 mm x 99 mm |
Weight |
300 grams Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process |
Wi-Fi connectivity |
Wi-Fi required. Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4 and 5 GHz) networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks. |
Bluetooth connectivity |
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo Dot or from Echo Dot to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported. |
Audio |
Built-in speaker for voice feedback when not connected to external speakers. 3.5 mm stereo audio output for use with external speakers (audio cable not included). |
System Requirements |
Echo Dot comes ready to connect to your Wi-Fi. Certain skills and services are subject to change, may not be available in all areas and may require separate subscriptions or other fees. The Alexa App is compatible with Android and iOS devices and also accessible via your desktop browser. |
Warranty and Service |
Echo Dot is sold with a limited warranty of one year provided by the manufacturer. This Limited Warranty does not restrict or alter any non-excludable statutory consumer protections or rights you may have, including under the Australian Consumer Law. Use of Echo Dot is subject to the terms found here. |
Accessibility Features |
The Alexa app and Alexa-enabled products include several features for customers with accessibility needs related to vision, hearing, mobility, and speech. Learn more about Alexa accessibility. |
Included in the Box |
Echo Dot, power adaptor (15W), and Quick Start Guide. |
Generation |
Echo Dot 3rd Generation - 2018 release |
Customer reviews
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To be fair, Amazon has Google beat when it comes to connectivity of compatible devices, but that’s only because they’ve been at it longer. And outside America, I’m not sure that’s enough.
Can’t comment on its “order more” function because I’d rather spend my grocery money locally than with a huge foreign company with a questionable track record regarding treatment of employees and a growing market monopoly not quite leashed by it’s barely there adherence to anti trust laws regarding consumer welfare. None of which stopped this hypocrite from buying stuff from Amazon during their Black Friday specials, a sale we don’t even have in Australia, following a holiday we don’t even celebrate in Australia. Damn, I disgust myself. *ahem* 😂 sorry, my woke got away from me.
Moving on, unless Amazon starts improving the AI by leaps and bounds in the next year or so we might have to just keep the Echo in the bedroom where it’s only basic commands like music weather and lights and get rid of the Dot in the living room and replace it with a Google Home.
I have spent HOURS online to customer service "troubleshooting" the devices, and both of them have the EXACT SAME ERROR which is once deregistered (advised by customer service) they REFUSE TO CONNECT AGIAN, rendering them COMPLETELY USELESS.
Amazon is a MULTI MULTI MULTI BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY, and won't even HELP the people that KEEP THEM RICH.
SHAME ON YOU.
It's $300 for me, which took me MONTHS to save, and your products are only created to last your 12-month warranty, but within months of that 12 months, they are BROKEN.
Under Australian Consumer Law, this is a BREACH to refuse. This is NOT acceptable quality, NOT a suitable timeframe that the product lasts, and NOT an acceptable response. They even advised me to buy another one, or buy an extended warranty. TOTALLY AGAINST AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW!
SHAME ON YOU AMAZON
Update: just found out the hard way that the australian power adapter is ever so slightly (about 1-2mm on each side) larger than the US power adapter and as such a lot of the mounting options sold online that let you hang the echo dot off the plug will not work. No idea why amazon would do this as the dimension difference is so nominal that they surely would have been able to fit the au adapter components into the same size as the US plug.