Product Review: The Amazon Echo Dot

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1511609097065","data":"Amazon has certainly been hitting it out of the park lately with their products: In India, Amazon Prime Video has been collecting and hosting a range of fantastic TV shows and is on the cusp of launching Amazon Prime Music, which will be like Spotify, without the extensive library. <\/p>But then, a company like Amazon doesn't name itself after the mightiest river in the world just for the laughs, neither is Amazon's hardware department something to laugh at. With the advent of smart homes and the Internet of Things, our lives will be more connected and infinitely easier to operate when you have a device that can take notes for you and that is massively understating what this device can do. <\/p>The Echo, powered by Alexa - an intelligent personal assistant developed by Amazon themselves - can take notes as stated previously, order items from Amazon, even book cabs and services from apps like Ola and Urbanclap. While Echo has two other variants apart from the Echo Dot - one simply titled Echo and the other being Echo Plus -, apart from output hardware, all the Echo devices are more or less similar. The Plus, however, is a must-have if you are making a smart home, but that is for another review. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1511609730591","data":"5a19586974741"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1511609732259","data":"The voice recognition on the Echo Dot is simply amazing. The specification sheet says that it has 7 mics that can pick up your voice even in noisy conditions due to how it handles noise cancellation, and I can believe it. During this review, a house being constructed right beside mine was sufficiently noisy enough for me to test it out. It also helped me out in picking up a gift for a friend, in fact, we've been doing the Secret Santa thing and sending out gifts already. <\/p>Sadly, the features I was most interested in, the ability to control a smart home, was not something I could test out since I did not have access to one. But in time, I hope to change that. Until then, however, the Echo Dot (and the Echo for that matter) remains an assistant that surprisingly manages to understand you even when you bungle up the speech and shows promise to the future. Sure, Google might get there first, considering our entire lives are owned by Google, but Amazon will get there sooner or later, and as people keep putting more of themselves online, it'll be easier for Alexa to learn. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1511610149917","data":"5a195878a2b59"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1511610152482","data":"Do I think you should buy it?<\/p>I certainly think you should, it is an interesting piece of hardware that has 'futureproof' written all over it. If you potentially move to a smart home in the future, you will have your trusty Echo Dot to set you up and keep moving. <\/p>Currently, access to buying the Echo Dot is by invite only. You can visit their page by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/dp\/B071NB4PGV\/ref=gw_pc_echo_default_biscuit?pf_rd_p=ce67355d-98ab-483b-80b0-8dffbb2873f0&pf_rd_r=APKZ4YTQWMKNWQX82AQM\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here <\/a>and sign up to receive an invitation. Check it out now!  <\/p>"}]

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