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The editors liked
Gives Alexa a Face
Not a bad entertainment platform
Highly extensible
Excellent hearing
Alexa as you've come to know and love
Not prohibitively expensive
Good sound and video quality
A reasonably attractive design
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Touch screen useful for discovery
Selecting suggested items
And controlling playback
Full range of Alexa features with visuals
Adding a screen elevates the Echo to a whole new level
Has potential to be the ultimate (and only) Smart Home AI
Everything we like about Alexa
Plus visual feedback
A 7-inch touchscreen display
Video calls and an in-home video intercom (two Echo Shows required)
Excellent design that looks great in any room
2.5-inch circular screen is bright
Crisp
And doubles as a clock
Camera can be completely disabled
Great sound in a compact package
Powerful voice-recognition capabilties
Fantastic Alexa integration
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Alexa is as useful as ever
Hardware is solid and soberly handsome
Touchscreen-enabled apps show some promise
Bright
Crisp screen
Good audio quality
Displays smart home cameras
Isn't trying to be a tablet
Better sound than other smart speakers
Video conferencing between Shows is easy
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Alexa takes great advantage of the new touchscreen
Music sounds great over the new speaker
Echo Show does everything the original Echo does
It'll get better over time as developers build skills for the touchscreen
The editors didn't like
Call audio quality sub-par
Needs to make even greater use of the display
Screen is too reflective
Thirdparty skills taking advantage of the touchscreen
Amazon's Alexa app is still a little clunky
Video "dropins" are fraught with danger
Alexa calls and messaging are still a walled garden
Third-party skills taking advantage of the touchscreen
Video "drop-ins" are fraught with danger
The tiny stylus is very awkward to use. There's little new here for anyone who already has a 3DS in their bag
Limited touch control options
Drop In voice and video messaging only works with other Alexa users
Dated design
Unimpressive audio quality for the price
Voice recognition is as bad as ever
Alexa app is cluttered and unintuitive
Smart Home features rely on 3rd parties
Can't stream media from network storage
No video our aux audio output
Smallish 7-inch display that's limited to 1024x600 resolution
Hefty cord somewhat limits where it can be placed
Videos are truncated in full-screen mode
You can't use voice commands to stream music from your own local server
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Short list of touchscreen-enabled 3rd-party Skills
Teething pains for some Skills on how display is used
Published: 2017-12-13, Author: Thomas , review by: alphr.com
Despite those (small) complaints, I do rather like the Amazon Echo Show. It combines all the flexibility and voice-driven brilliance of the regular Echo speakers with a dash of visual flair and it shows that some crazy old ideas don't need to be consigned...
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Published: 2017-11-27, Author: James , review by: dailystar.co.uk
STARTECH has been tinkering with the Echo Show and we've been pretty impressed.The sound quality is decent enough and the screen brings an added dimension to this clever smart speaker. Viewing news snippets, film clips and checking out if it will be raini...
Published: 2017-11-24, Author: Samuel , review by: theguardian.com
screen, Alexa, Amazon Video, YouTube, can always hear you, Bluetooth, video calling, excellent smart home control, great sound
alwayslistening object in your house, can activate accidentally, limited number of music and video services supported, expensive compared to Echo
The Amazon Echo Show is a great little device with a lot of potential. Fitting a smart speaker with a screen adds another dimension to the experience, enabling things such as video calling and watching video – all controlled via voice – that just wouldn't...
We're impressed with the Amazon Echo Show – the display improves the overall Alexa experience, enabling it to do things that haven't been possible until now, like show you how to cook things step-by-step or provide a livestream of your home security camer...
It's early days yet for the Amazon Echo Show. The list of Show-specific skills from third parties remains thin on the ground, so early adopters are going to have to rely on the speaker's core skill set for now. But that's not such a bad thing because it c...
Published: 2017-10-11, Author: Nick , review by: techradar.com
Awesome voice recognition, Visually rich touchscreen, Competent smart home hub
Speaker still sounds shallow, Video calling is limited, Alexa needs some schooling
At $229/£199 (Australian price TBA), the Amazon Echo Show is a competent home helper. The addition of the screen is unique, and helps separate the Show from the crowd. Like the 5MP camera, the Show hasn't quite made the most of the touchscreen, but that c...
Responsive touchscreen, bright display, louder and better speakers than Echo, full-fledged Alexa, video calls and Drop In mode
Low resolution, not a truly high-end speaker, no app store or deep interface, few touch-enabled skills
Amazon has turned its Alexa voice-control assistat into a wider platform. And the Echo Show, which is essentially an Echo with a touchscreen, expands what you can do with Alexa and how useful the service is.However, for $230 (no UK price until the device...
