Features:

  • Echo Show brings you everything you love about Alexa, and now she can show you things. Watch video flash briefings, Amazon Video content, see music lyrics, security cameras, photos, weather forecasts, to-do and shopping lists, browse and listen to Audible audiobooks, and more. All hands-free—just ask.
  • Call almost anyone hands-free, or make video calls to family and friends with an Echo Spot, Echo Show, or the Alexa App. Instantly connect to other Echo devices around your home.
  • See lyrics on-screen with Amazon Music. Just ask to play a song, artist or genre, and stream over Wi-Fi. Also, stream music on Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, and more.
  • Powerful, room-filling speakers with Dolby processing for crisp vocals and extended bass response. Play your music simultaneously across Echo devices with multi-room music (Bluetooth not supported). Adjust the treble, mid, and bass levels with your voice.
  • Ask Alexa to show you the front door or monitor the baby's room with compatible cameras from Amazon and others. Turn on lights or the TV, set thermostats, control Amazon Video on Fire TV, and more with WeMo, Philips Hue, Sony, ecobee, and other compatible smart home devices.
  • With eight microphones, beamforming technology, and noise cancellation, Echo Show hears you from any direction—even while music is playing
  • Always getting smarter and adding new features, plus thousands of skills like Uber, Allrecipes, CNN, and more
The Echo Show

This is a great product! Set up took me about 1.5 minutes. Just plug it in choose your wifi and input your pw thats it. A huge step up in the echo lineup. Folks at this price jump on it now, You won't be sorry. I use timers,reminders, wake up alarm, recipes, Wikipedia, music, smart bulbs and plugs and the list goes on and on and on etc. Great sounding speakers, great screen size too. I'd give it ten stars if I could. Have a nice day:)

Helps paralyzed communicate

My boyfriend is paralyzed and is able to now call and communicate with me for the first time via the Echo Show since accident by himself. I can drop in and speak with him anytime.

Best Echo available!

The Amazon Echo Show is a voice-activated device. You can instruct it to play video content, play music, stream online audio, order products and services, and control home automation products. The Echo Show is the first device of its kind to feature its own screen, which in my opinion, greatly enhances the use and potential of this device. I’ve been using this device for a few days so far. Below you will find some of my initial impressions: ### What I Like ###### Good build quality: The Show has a nice, bright screen that has good viewing angles. Good sound: The speakers on the Show sound much better than the original echo. Easy setup: Setup was extremely easy, mostly due to the Show’s touch screen. After making a few selections, the Show was up and running in no time. Content suggestions: When you aren't interacting with the Show, it continuously displays content suggestions. I like that it will suggest videos to watch. Video content: I like being able to view Amazon Video, video news briefings, movie trailers, and YouTube videos on the Show. Video calling: Video calling works as advertised. I like being able to initiate a call with my voice. Music with lyrics: When playing songs from Amazon Music, you can see album art and song lyrics on the screen. Home automation: Like other Echos, the Show can control your smart home products. The show has the extra ability to display camera feeds. On-screen apps: The echo can display my calendar, reminders, lists, timers, local weather, and more. Because of this, I find the Show infinitely more useful than the original Echo. ### What I Don't Like ###### The Show needs more functionality that leverages the touch screen. I trust that new skills will be added over time but I'm disappointed that more wasn't available at launch. The Show should have an audio-out port. I wish the Show could have a bigger screen option, a video-out port, and/or video casting capability. The show should not be used as an alarm clock at this point. There's no backup battery solution at the moment. The display currently is too bright for a dark room. The angle of display and the camera cannot be adjusted. None of the Echos can answer all of the questions the Google Home can answer. None of the Echos can cast video to a TV like the Google Home can. The Echo Show is not cheap. ### How will I use the Echo Show ###### - Playing Music from Amazon Music - Watching videos from YouTube - Controlling home automation products and displaying camera feeds # # # Bottom Line # # # # # # The Echo Show is the best Echo available. It's also the best voice activated device available. The addition of the screen makes it infinitely better than any of the other options. While display and touch specific functionality is limited at the moment, we can trust that both Amazon and 3rd party developers will add new functionality over time. If you find the Show's price to be too high, the Echo Dot is still a great device. It's also not an expensive investment, should you decide to replace it with an Echo Show later. # # # Echo Show vs Echo # # # # # # If you are trying to decide between the Echo and the Echo Show, get the Show. You'll get better audio plus the potential for much greater functionality via the touch screen, # # # Echo Show vs Google Home # # # # # # If you want to cast video and audio, Google Home is the better choice since none of the Echos can do this. Other than that, I recommend the Echo Show over the Google Home because it has more skills and it has a screen. Yes, the Google Home can answer more complex questions. I just think people will use these devices more for consuming content and controlling smart home products than they will use them to ask complex questions. I own both devices so I have the best of both worlds. # # # Suggested Improvements # # # # # # Add a physical home button and back button on the device and on a compatible remote Add a camera that can pan and zoom and track faces that are talking. Add an audio-out port. Add a separate alarm clock module that is resistant to downtime related to software patching, software crashes, network outages, etc. Provide a option for displaying video on a bigger screen via a video-out port, video casting, or bigger Echo Shows. Add the ability to customize the home page with custom apps, custom news feeds, social media feeds, etc. Add the ability to do image searches and 3D images searches Ability to display my commute route using google maps, with traffic Add Skype support and allow voice initiated calls. Add the ability to stream live TV from a cable box, TIVO, or the internet. Add official apps for SiriusXM, Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. The YouTube app show allow you to log in and verbally access your playlists, history, subscribed channels, etc.

Alexa keeps getting smarter, and I kept learning better ways to interact with her!

We love our Echo Shows. It sits on the kitchen counter and has become a cornerstone of our daily activities. Now that you can name timers and set multiple timers at once I no longer use our oven or microwave timer at all. At first I thought the "how many teaspoons" type questions would be a gimmick but I routinely wind up asking for Alexa to clarify some measurement. I setup the app to know where my office is, and each morning wind up checking how long the commute is. On at least two occasions I've gotten a response that included a different route than normal and known to avoid the highway since there was an accident. Most of our interactions with Alexa are asking to play some music. Our daughter loves this feature, and thankfully is still being very polite to Alexa, even ending her "Alexa, play Moana" with a "Please"! I'm so proud. The game changer has been "Alexa, Play Frozen on the FireTV" and "Alexa, Pause the fireTV". This keeps me from searching for a remote and makes it much easier to occupy a little one while pulling something out of the oven. We use it for turning on and off some smart lights as well but the control of the TV is the smart home item I like the most. Recipe skills could use some work. A few of them are okay, and All Recipes lets you save things so long as you setup an account with them. Sad that youtube is not working on them anymore :(

Life made better..

I bought this for my dad who is 83 years old. Got one for me and my son too. My brother has the app. Daddy loves it! He lives about 3 hours from us and this enables him to "visit" us anytime he wants. He can talk face to face with his children, grandchildren and greatgradchildren without having to learn something new. He just tells Alexa what to do. He smiles all the time and actually is "dropping in" when he rarely picked the phone up to call before. Another bonus..hes hard of hearing but has no problem with the echo show. He can hear and see us clear as a bell! I get something out of him having it too (besides the joy of seeing him enjoy something so much!)...piece of mind as I can check in on him to make sure he is okay. He's making use of other aspects of Alexa as well due to the on screen prompts. He loves playing "his" music. All he has to do is ask. When I am able, I plan on getting everyone in the family one so Daddy can "visit" all of us anytime he wants. Thank you for such a wonderful life enhancing product!

Thank You Amazon! and my 95yr Mom Thanks you! (If she could).

I know that many media folks have stated that the "Drop-in" feature of the Echos is "creepy" and can see their point. Here's a different perspective. Mom is now almost 95 and she has short term memory dementia, she's in great spirits but I really can't teach her anything technical, like dialing a phone or even pressing a memory dial button. She lives near my sister and is 2 hours away so visiting is always a bit of a project. I thought I'd try setting a Show next to her rocking chair. I can now "Drop-in" on her every day and share some face time with her, visit with her grand daughter, see the dog whom she LOVES, and just make her smile. The beauty is that there is no interaction needed on her end, the Caregivers and my Mom love this setup. The fact that I can use my phone from anywhere and actually see and talk to Mom, and show her things is hugely entertaining and comforting for Mom, and everyone in the family. So I say with extreme gratitude, Thank You Amazon for creating an amazingly personally helpful tool for the elderly. Personally I am enjoying all of the other great features of an Alexa with a screen, using her with my Arlo Cameras, etc. It truly is quite an amazing platform! In my office I added a small Pioneer bookshelf stereo, I can be listening to Spotify, Pandora etc and say "Alexa, connect Bluetooth", the Pioneer stereo is Bluetooth enabled, it can be OFF and with that single voice command, the Show will wake up the Pioneer, and begin playing the sound over its speakers with no other intervention from me! This is magical stuff! The only bug I have at the moment, "Alexa, turn off the screen", the screen turns off, then immediately turns back on. Tell her again and the screen stays off, pretty consistent bug. Edit- Seems fixed now! 1/06/2018 Still enjoying my Echo Shows very much, I don't expect this to replace a tablet, it does many things very well, besides being indispensable with visiting Mom. Currently there is one in the Kitchen and it is used by the family to play lots of music, having the screen is really nice to be able to see what's playing etc. We are trying Amazon Music and so far it's pretty sweet as well, "Alexa show me all albums from Keith Urban", up comes pictures of all of his 12 or so album covers, touch one and play the album. Alexa, "Connect Bluetooth" and the Show connects to a Bluetooth receiver I have on our whole house stereo. Alexa "Turn on the Stereo", Alexa controls the Logitech Harmony remote to power up the stereo and now we are hearing music everywhere, nice. We've also added some Ring cameras and doorbell, "Alexa, show me the front door", now I'm looking out front. Oh, and our doggie monitor/treat shooter, Furbo, "Alexa, ask Furbo to toss a treat" is our dog "Cookie" 's favorite skill! Bottom line, this is a very powerful system, don't get me wrong we love our Apple products (Phones, iPads, and Macs) but I prefer this Amazon ecosystem for my home music, automation, and general questions etc. as it's a fairly open system that plays well with 3rd parties when compared to the likes of Apple. I would never have imagined all that is possible with these units!

It's as useful as you make it!

So far we're really enjoying the Echo Show. Initially we kind of struggled to find practical uses for it but after a few days it became evident that with a little effort you can do alot. Security cameras - if your cameras support RTSP then you can use Monocle skill to set up all your non-alexa enabled camera easily. "Alexa, show me the front door" and I'm looking at the front door. Now this skill is still beta I believe so about once a week or two it won't work as the service is down for a short period, but given that accessing the feeds this way is far faster than opening any phone based apps, I'd call it a win. My wife recently had twins so that makes this feature even more useful since we get alot of solicitors who love to annoy homeowners in the area. Drop in - each of my kids have a Dot, a Echo in the bedroom, a dot in the guest room, and a dot in the basement. So using drop in is really handy to tell someone somewhere in the house something. Announce - you can broadcast a message to all other exho devices in the house with this simple command. This is great for gathering the family for dinner time. Random news stories - the device scrolls different news stories across the screen throughout the day along with the command to hear more about this particular story, such as "Try 'Alexa, what's the whale story' ". If you want to hear the story about a new pod of whales that the headline above mentioned. Camera - This has been alot of fun to be honest. With a variety of stickers you can take selfies with different art superimposed such as a mustache or silly hat. Custom Skills - With Amazon's "Skill Blueprint" feature it has not become ridiculously easy to built your own custom Skills. I created one based on the house guests blue print where you list off different things a guest may want to locate or ask how to do along with the answers and boom, now visitors know where to find TP, plungers, silverware, plates, bowels, fire extinguisher, remote controls, bathrooms, change inputs on the TV, turn the theater on and off, password for the WiFi...and so on.

at first thought nice little gadget but a little expensive for playing music ...

I,m a remodeling contractor and have watched the Alexa craze start in the kitchens of homes over the past couple years, at first thought nice little gadget but a little expensive for playing music or answering a few questions? (180.00 for a music tower) I shop Amazon weekly and noticed the new generation Echo Show on sale for (Prime week $129.00) and with my prime account free shipping, NEXT DAY! I read specs. on the unit and knew I could make use of this device. I made the purchase and am very happy with it. I check weather daily, check top stories in the news, I ask questions that come to mind when i'm bored, I ask for recepies, I play music alllll the time, I watch trailers for prime movies,this Echo Show does it all, i'm not a huge techy but I do all rite , it took me 10 minutes to set up and be running. I have had it 3 days and already purchased a 2nd one for the bed room and that took all of about 5 minutes to set up. I have read dozens of revues and it seams the I phone Apple folks seam to be the harshest critics, I am an PC. guy and an Android Phone user and I have to say this is probably the coolest addition to my home and i'm in a lot of homes ( Remodeling Contractor as said earlier) i'm now running 2 Echos and streaming prime and on tablet all at the same time and NOT an issue, some folks made coments about buffering or hesitation on there Echo,,, they mite have to step up there internet connection or upgrade from dial up HAHA!! anyway.. I plan on upgrading with lighting and a couple cameras and probable a thermostat to run off my Echo Show. Also like an other person who wrote a review I have a mother in a retirement home that is cell phone challenged an livs 1400 miles away and i'm planning on installing one in her room soo I can video call and check in with her, all she would have to do is Say (Alexa Answer Call). Soo for me a remodeling contractor who is in many homes and see a lot of trends come and go I think we could most all agree this technology is here to stay and all the little quirks will be worked out as Alexa gets smarter as time goes by.. She seams to be getting my traits in just a few days.. I would recommend this unit to any of my friends or clients.. Thanks Carpenter60.

Absolutely love them!

We have 3 Shows in our house. My husband can’t work a computer and can’t type, so he loves being able to talk to Alexa to get information. I ordered lots of AudioBooks for him which he listens to every night. I even bought him a Sling so he can have Alexa outside with him while he works. We also use them as intercoms, as you’re able to connect through each one to talk to another. And I got one for my daughter so she can video call here from her house (I even get to see and talk to her dog LOL). Complete voice control over volume. And we got the Hue light bulbs so we control all our lights with voice. We get weather and news whenever we want and plenty of music. I’ve even figured out how to put my own music on them (from various sources). My nephew comes over and loves the available games. I’m thinking of getting him one so he can call me through video. I even set it up so it turns our tv on and off, when necessary. Being able to view my calendar events is nice too. Setting an alarm by voice command is so easy. I had a problem once on it showing ALL our AudioBooks and the developers went to work on the problem and got it fixed, so I’m very happy with their response to issues. There is some basic setup necessary through the app. I’m computer savvy so I have no problems setting up tech items. Perhaps those who gave bad reviews have not fully set up the Echo to do all it is capable of doing, as I don’t get how you can give this item a bad review. All in all, we adore our Shows, Sling, Hue Lights, etc. They’re constantly updating them. Keep the advances coming!! I’ll keep buying! 😊😊😊

Priceless to talk to my Grandmother!

I love my alexa show, I actually bought three of them. One for my mom, one for my grandmother, and one for me. They all live far from me and this is such a great way to connect! I drop in on my grandmother because she gets a little confused at how to answer a phone, and it works so perfectly! You have to set up the device for drop in and indicate your contacts who have permission to do this, so my mom and I have our devices turned off for that feature so noone can drop into us. But it is priceless for my grandmother, it is gray at first and I always make sure to say something like Grandma, are you there? I'm just calling to say hi.. and then she has some time before the screen clears up. We'll have a great video conversation and I feel so much more connected to her after seeing her on the screen! My alexa show tells me when she is active, so it really makes it so easy. My mom and I watch tv together or I use it as video chat for her to see the grandkids, I like how it is a standalone device that just sits there on the table and I can talk and see her while doing other things.

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