New Amazon Echo Dot hand-on review: Still small, bigger sound

There’s a new Dot in town – here are our first impressions of Amazon’s new third-generation Echo Dot revealed at today’s launch event at the company’s headquarters in Seattle.

The Echo Dot has long been one of our favourite pieces of tech because it’s so simple and inexpensive and the new device continues at the £49.99/$49.99 price point. And you’ve been able to use a Dot to transform any hi-fi system or Bluetooth speaker with auxiliary input into a fully-featured Echo device.

When we heard there might be a new Echo Dot revealed we were a little worried because we felt that a new device – with extra features – might be detrimental to the simple experience that the Echo Dot offers (and that there might be a price hike, too). However, we needn’t have worried – it’s still as simple, but it is slightly larger than the old Echo Dot as you can see here:

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