Can the Amazon Echo Pop control smart home devices? You’ll also be prompted to enter the credentials for your home Wi-Fi router, although once that step is done, you won’t need to repeat it for adding future Echo speakers. If you’re new to the Echo scene or Alexa as a whole, you’ll need to download the Alexa app and (if you haven’t already) register for an Amazon account. You simply plug in the Echo Pop, wait a few minutes until Alexa says the speaker is ready for setup, and fire up the Alexa app within a few seconds, a prompt to pair the Echo Pop should appear. Getting the Echo Pop up and running is a snap for those who already own other Echo speakers. But while you can’t connect a secondary speaker to the Echo Pop using a wire, you can still do so via Bluetooth. There’s no 3.5mm audio-out jack on the back of the Pop–not a huge surprise, given that the fifth-generation Echo Dot jettisoned the auxiliary audio jack, too. So yes, the Echo Pop is a tad smaller than the Dot, but it’s not that much smaller. With its half-spherical design, the Echo Pop certainly looks somewhat smaller than the Echo Dot, but practically speaking, the Pop’s slice-in-half design only shaves about a half and inch of depth and a hair off the height. Measuring 3.9 x 3.3 x 3.6 inches (WxDxH), the Amazon Echo Pop is roughly the same size as the Echo Dot. So, at the risk of sounding glib: the Echo Pop flops more than it pops. This review is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart speakers. On the plus side, the Pop does come with Alexa and her usual bag of tricks, and besides supporting Amazon’s Sidewalk neighborhood networks and the new Matter smart home standard, the Pop doubles as an extender for Amazon’s Eero mesh Wi-Fi routers.īut the Echo Dot does all those things too, and while it’s a tad deeper in size than the Echo Pop, it has a much more premium feel the Pop, on the other hand, feels cheap. At $40, the Echo Pop is only $10 less than the sturdier, better sounding, more capable, and only slightly larger Echo Dot.
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