Mashable Choice highlights the best of everything we cover, have experienced first-hand and would recommend to others. Amazon's not declaring it a redo, but the Echo Spot , the company's latest Alexa-powered smart speaker â€" smart alarm clock is probably more accurate â€" might as well be one.

The firm's latest Alexa-powered addition to its Echo range adds a clock and touchscreen interface to the mix

attractive; clear screen; Alexa; can hear you well; Bluetooth; video calling; excellent smart home control; lots of clock faces to choose from

always-listening object in your house; no web video support; expensive compared to Echo

Really excited to receive the Echo Spot, but excitement turned to exasperation when I couldn't get it to connect to my BT wifi. After much research on line, I discovered there is a known compatibility issue with BT broadband but eventually, I found the solution was to switch off the 'smart set up'...

Love the Echo, very easy to use, in the beginning you receive daily emails from Amazon with suggestions and tips. Alexa understands all my commands and responds very politely every time. Finding more uses for it every day. The best news is from today, Apple Music is compatible with the Alexa family.

Amazon has defined the smart speaker space with its range of Echo devices which serve as speakers of varying size and quality and also work as conduits to smart home systems, entertainment, online search and news and music playback.

The Spot is the fifth speaker in Amazon's Echo range - and arguably the cutest. That's not normally a metric we use to rate products, but I'll make an exception here because the Spot is simply gorgeous.

It does heaps, which is great. Given how much it does, the bedroom doesn't do it justice, so we put it in the lounge room. However, it's a bit small there, so one has to squint to see the screen. That's compensated by simply asking Alexa to tell you what you were wanting to know anyway.

great wireless speaker. Does all my home automation. Very useful in your daily life. Wifi is also great

Virtual assistants can have a place in our lives, helping us with information and getting small tasks done. While many people might be familiar with the voice assistants on their smartphones, we are now starting to see standalone devices such as the Amazon Echo lineup and Google Home devices...

Well built; Useful display; Video calling

Poor audio quality

Amazon recently launched the Echo Spot in India, making it the first major smart speaker with a display in the country. While the company is surely hoping to drive up sales of its Alexa-powered smart speakers by offering customers a varied selection of speakers, the Echo Spot, at its ₹12,999 price...