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Amazon Echo Show 8
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I love this thing!
I had the smaller echo show 5 which was a gift and i quite liked it, but mostly i used it as just a clock and for its ‘alexa’ capabilities.
This one was on sale recently so i decided to upgrade since has a bigger screen, this really makes a big difference, mine is located in the same place my old echo 5 lived- across the room (i have a fairly large bedroom) so a small 5 inch screen being 5 meters away wasn’t really useful for much more than a clock and ‘alexa’ use. But the bigger size here lets me take full advantage of more features, I can w...
Read moreatch Netflix on it which frees up my phone for whatever else I want and the bigger speaker on it means it sounds louder and from what i can tell its a better quality sound too. When its on standby, I have a selection of favourite photos that play and it always makes me smile when I walk past. Since I’m no longer using the 5, i moved it to the living room and we now can use it to communicate with whoever is out there, you can send an ‘announcement’ or even have a little video chat kind of thing going on, I’m not entirely sure how useful that would be but it was fun to test out. It looks really beautiful on my shelf and one of the things i have always loved about the echos is the way the clock function brightness works, I cannot stand having a bedroom clock that emits too much light, I like a very dark room when I sleep and the light detection on these is absolutely flawless, in the day its bright and clear with a full screen of colour and vibrance, but at night it dims to nothing but the digits which are only very gently lit, just the right amount to see the time but not enough to burn your retinas like when you pick up your phone to check the time in the dark. Most people probably wouldn’t think twice about this kind of thing, but before I had an echo I actually went through several bedside clocks looking for something that wasn’t so bright and to get that in this device was an excellent bonus. Of course you will also have full use of the usual ‘Alexa’ commands and I highly recommend looking into what you can do with them if you’re not already familiar. Smart lights these days are so cheap and theres no reason to ever touch a light switch again. Its one of my small thrills to be all comfortable in bed and feeling sleepy after some reading and NOT have to get up to turn the light off, “Alexa, turn on my Monday schedule!” “Alexa turn off the light!” Now I can go to sleep knowing I’ll be woken by my favourite song gently getting louder with the light slowly fading on to coincide with my song waking me. What a time to be alive!Purchased in at JB Hi-Fi Retail Stores for $149.
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- 5 reviews
- 1 like
Glorified speaker & clock.
Don't expect much more than the bare minimum.
Often repeats your entire question despite older devices having a 'shorten response' feature.
Works fine as a speaker, timer and clock. However, you will find it's more 'complex' features like looking up recipes, doing Google searches and word lookups a longer more frustrating process.
There is a reason you see these products significantly cheap on resale websites.
Purchased in at Amazon.
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- 2 reviews
Awesome unit, step up from smaller Show 5
I imported 2x Echo Show 8's from UK. They are awesome displays for family photos, audio is x10 better and are otherwise identical to the smaller Show5's. Yes, the clock display cant be set to full screen. Minor grumble.
Purchased in at Amazon for $229.
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- 15 reviews
- 15 likes
Good device but is missing some key features, better with the US Alexa accent.
The device is attractive if not a little chunky, but vastly superior to the strange industrial design of the Google competitor device.
One key issue with the device relates to an inability to control the size and formatting of the clock. On the smaller echo device the clock can be altered to suit your application. Due to this omission this device and the larger 10" Echo Show cannot really be used as a bedside clock.
I'd also suggest an amoled sceen would use less power and look much better than the screen they have used that is completely bac...
Read moreklit and likely used an LCD panel. Amazon needs to do better with Alexa, the Australian accent and voice is an abomination, it's common and irritating and not nearly as polished and pleasant as the US and UK accents. I have her set to the US voice as I simply can't stand the Australian voice.Purchased in at JB Hi-Fi.
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- 2 reviews
- 1 like
Good mid-range smart device for home
Got this echo show 8 for a few months now and very happy with it. Especially you can use drop-in function between your Alexa app on your phone to this device and start a video call. Also, watching youtube and have good quality sound out of this device. Or to use for the baby monitor as well as you can enable guard mode with the built-in camera.
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