If you’re ready to embrace smart home living in a big way, then the Echo Show 8 is a great device to have.
The Amazon Echo Show 8 goes well beyond the visual upgrades seen on earlier iterations. Echo Shows have always been decent smart displays (in no small part thanks to Alexa), but this particular model boasts a few significant upgrades that make it one of the best smart displays you can buy right now and for just $109.99 (was $149.99).
Amazon Echo Show 8 gets an early Prime Day $40 price cut
If you’re ready to embrace smart home living in a big way then all signs are pointing to the Echo Show 8 as a great device to have.
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Boosting up the audio quality to a proper degree, the latest Echo Show 8 is one of the first Amazon smart displays to include spatial audio, the same type of tech that helps give Movies and TV shows a more immersive quality when experienced on a home entertainment system.
Because of the audio tech involved, the Echo Show 8 is much better suited to larger rooms like your living room or kitchen, making it the go-to smart display to have on your wall if you want something that can really fill the room with sound.
On top of the audio upgrade, this Echo Show features an upgraded smart home hub that provides much better integration with your array of smart home devices, letting you better keep tabs on compatible devices all within the Echo Show’s clean and easy-to-navigate interface.
Of course, with Alexa built in, you can give tons of hands-free voice commands to the Echo Show that include playing your favourite songs and streaming content from apps like Prime Video and Netflix. There’s no need for you to endlessly search through menus for what you want to watch – just ask for it and the Echo Show will do its best to provide.
The auto-framing camera on this thing is much improved too, so if you’re using the Echo Show 8 for video calling, then your conversation partner will be able to see you clearly at all times, regardless of how you’re moving about.
As mentioned before, the Echo Show 8 comes in either Charcoal or Glacier White finishes, but it’s worth noting that the Charcoal model is currently going for the cheaper price of the two available options.
With spatial audio and a smart home hub thrown into the mix, the real value of the Echo Show 8 becomes apparent as it combines multiple smart home functionalities into one device, possibly meaning that you’ll have to buy less individual gadgets for your home, saving you both time and money in the long run.
A pretty substantial upgrade
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Faster processor -
Improved audio -
Smart personalisation via Adaptive Content -
Zigbee, Thread and Matter support
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Same resolution as previous version -
Some options fiddly to access
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