Amazon’s Echo Present 5 drops to a brand new low of $35

Days after internet hosting a serious {hardware} launch, Amazon is seemingly having a sale on its older Echo gadgets. Among the many offers, we observed that each the Echo Present 5 and the bigger Echo Present 8 have hit new document lows. The Echo Present 5, which went on sale final yr for $85, is now right down to $35, a 59 p.c low cost. The 8-inch mannequin, in the meantime, is right down to $70 after having debuted at $100.

Purchase Echo Present 5 at Amazon – $35
Purchase Echo Present 8 at Amazon – $70

Each gadgets, however particularly the Echo Present 8, had been designed for use as a potential alarm clock, with a dawn alarm function that lightly wakes you up by slowly brightening the show. And, as you may count on, each gadgets supply the identical suite of Alexa voice instructions and integration with Ring good residence gadgets. The place the 2 gadgets differ most, clearly, is in measurement — and what rooms of the home the place they had been meant to reside. 

The Echo Present 5 is primarily pitched as a bedside system, and in our overview final yr we praised its surprisingly first rate audio high quality (past simply the power to scare you awake). With the Echo Present 8, you get a modest 2-megapixel digital camera and 960 x 480 show, which we praised in our overview for its total high quality and specifically the video calling expertise. You may use it within the bed room, certain, however we will additionally see it working within the kitchen or lounge.

Within the case of each gadgets, we mentioned in our overview that competing gadgets from the likes of Google provided an easier-to-navigate consumer interface. That may nonetheless be true, nevertheless it is perhaps even much less of a dealbreaker at such bargain-basement costs.

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