Seven years later, longtime Echo Spot user sizes up the first revamp of Amazon’s tiny Alexa device

Amazon’s original Echo Spot has been sitting on the back corner of the desk in my home office for seven years, since its release in 2017. My initial plan was to put it on my nightstand, but my wife nixed that idea, so ever since, the Echo Spot has been a steady presence in my peripheral vision whenever I’m working at home.

It can be hard sometimes to keep track of which Echo device is which, so to jog your memory, this is the one that was described as “a Magic 8 Ball sliced in half” in one of the first reviews back in 2017.

As an Echo Spot user all these years, I find it pretty handy to...

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