Amazon introduced the all-new Echo Spot, the latest addition to its lineup of Alexa-enabled devices. Echo Spot is a sleek, new, customisable smart alarm clock featuring a variety of custom-designed clock faces and fun colours. It's built for the nightstand, with a display that makes it easy to set and view alarms, see the time, weather, or song titles at a glance, and a directional speaker that delivers vibrant sound.
"Customers care about the way they wake up in the morning and go to bed at night and the all-new Echo Spot will transform the way they start and end their day," said Patrick Walker, country manager, Amazon Devices Australia and New Zealand. "Thanks to customisable clock faces, personalised designs, new alarm sounds and colourful visual animations, Echo Spot is the best smart alarm clock designed for any bedside table."
Customers love asking Alexa for information—in fact, Alexa answers multiple requests every millisecond, with customers asking Alexa for the weather, to set a reminder or to set an alarm tens of millions of times every day. Echo Spot comes with a variety of custom-designed clock faces, new visual animations, and fun colours that make it easy to see the responses to these requests at a glance.
Ask Alexa to set alarms on the Echo Spot by saying, "Alexa, set a weekday alarm for 7am with soft jazz." Or, wake up to one of four new alarm sounds exclusive to Echo Spot—Aurora, Daybreak, Endeavor, and Flutter. And, if you want a bit more sleep when your alarm goes off, tap Echo Spot to snooze. You can also ask Alexa for the weather to see the temperature, along with an illustration that appears on the screen like a sun, rain cloud, or snowflake.
Echo Spot's display can be customised to fit the aesthetic of your bedroom. Choose from six different colourways—orange, violet, magenta, lime, teal, and blue—or mix and match colours with various clock faces.
The new, colourful visual display also shows song titles when music plays. To skip songs, ask Alexa or quickly tap the display. There are also buttons on the top of the all-new Echo Spot to change the volume quickly—or you can ask Alexa to adjust the sound up or down.
Enjoy vibrant sound with the all-new Echo Spot, which includes a 1.73" front-firing directional speaker that delivers clear vocals and deep bass. Just ask Alexa to play music, podcasts and audiobooks from your favourite providers, such as Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Audible, and more.
Connect Echo Spot to compatible smart home products and set up Alexa Routines to help automate daily tasks. For example, set up a routine that gently wakes you with music and gradual light from compatible smart lights. Or, set an evening routine that dims your smart lights, lowers the thermostat and plays music.
Ask Alexa to place audio calls to loved ones on other Alexa-enabled devices, make household announcements, audibly Drop In on other Alexa-enabled devices, or get alerts and audio from your compatible smart doorbell.
Echo Spot has multiple layers of privacy controls, including an on/off button for the microphone and the ability to view and delete voice recordings.
The all-new Echo Spot is available for RRP NZ$ 169 at Noel Leeming and in leading New Zealand retailers. It is available in Black, Glacier White, and Ocean Blue.
