{"id":408181,"date":"2017-09-28T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/27\/amazon-echo-spot-hands-on\/21|23225263"},"modified":"2017-09-28T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T22:29:00","slug":"amazons-echo-spot-is-a-cuter-version-of-the-echo-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/amazons-echo-spot-is-a-cuter-version-of-the-echo-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon’s Echo Spot is a cuter version of the Echo Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I thought the Show might be more at home in a kitchen with its large display, the Spot is definitely more suited for the bedside table. It’s sphere-like shape is a little bigger than a softball, and reminds me a lot of the Chumby<\/a>, which also pitched itself as a smart alarm clock. You can use it to see the weather, watch video clips, check in to your baby monitor, or just use it to check the time — it comes with 12 different clock faces, some of which can change color depending on time of day.<\/p>\n

I unfortunately was not able to really play with it, as the devices seen in the photos here are just demo units and not hooked up to anything. Still, I did swipe around on the touchscreen for a few minutes. The display looks nice and crisp, and it was pretty intuitive from the brief time I had with it. The viewing angles seemed pretty good too.<\/p>\n

The Echo Spot boasts a new microphone array with a new far-field technology that promises better noise cancellation so you can shout at it even in a loud room. Just like Echo Show, there’s a front-facing camera so you can use it for video conferencing. There’s also a built-in speaker, Bluetooth and an audio line out.<\/p>\n

The Spot is available for $150 in both black and white and will be available in December this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I thought the Show might be more at home in a kitchen with its large display, the Spot is definitely more suited for the bedside table. It’s sphere-like shape is a little bigger than a softball, and reminds me a lot of the Chumby, which also pitched itself as a smart alarm clock. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":408182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-408181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}