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Best Amazon Echo Show smart displays in 2024

An Amazon Echo Show can streamline your scheduling, entertainment, and smart home devices with ease

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What’s all the fuss about smart displays? That’s a fair question to ask, and the best way to explore this tech category is to take a hard look at Amazon’s Echo Show lineup. The Echo Show is one of the most recognizable names in the world of smart displays. Echo Show smart displays are great for making video calls, listening to music, controlling smart home devices, and so much more.

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Snag one of Amazon's Echo Show devices for up to 70% off with these early Prime Day deals

Save up to $100 with discounts on Echo Show smart displays this weekend

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Amazon's upcoming Prime Big Deal Days sale may be scheduled for next Tuesday, October 10, but eager shoppers can already find some excellent deals ahead of the main event. After dropping a sale with massive discounts on Echo smart speakers earlier this week, they're offering another batch of Alexa device deals that feature equally impressive discounts. This time around, almost the entire line of Echo Show smart displays are on sale, with discounts of up to 70% off the Echo Show 5 and more.

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Amazon's new Echo Show 8 wants to be your smart hub of choice

With a centered camera, improved sound, a new home screen, and improved Alexa support

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Amazon's hosting its big device-focused event for 2023 today, where the company usually takes the stage for a whirlwind hour filled with new gadgets ahead of the holiday season. While today's event is focused on big upgrades to Alexa — it is the year of AI, after all — it didn't take long for the company to unveil its first big refresh. Amazon is delivering a new Echo smart display, and you won't have to wait too long to get your hands on it.

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5 reasons to buy an Amazon Echo Show

Before you pick up one of Amazon's smart speakers, let's examine the purposes they can serve in your life

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There are a lot of devices and services that make up the Amazon ecosystem, from Alexa-enabled speakers to streaming music, Fire TV streaming dongles, and a growing list of smart displays. With options from tiny to massive, this diverse lineup of devices is much more than just an Echo with a phone or tablet screen tacked on to it.

Grab Amazon's Echo Show 8 at its best price ever, for one day only

As the saying goes, 'while supplies last'

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Amazon appears to be closing out stock of its first-gen Echo Show 8 smart display and has tapped its partner retailers on their shoulders to do the same. That means you can grab it almost anywhere at its best price ever.The Alexa-powered display comes with a 720p display and all of the nifty tricks you can do with a digital assistant like controlling your smart home appliances, playing music, podcasts, and videos, and a whole bunch more at the sound of your voice.

Amazon's latest Echo speaker is cheaper than a PS5 game for Prime Day

Smart speakers, displays, and more as low as $20

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Prime Day is always the best time of the year to pick up any of Amazon's gadgets, be it a new Fire TV Stick or a budget Fire tablet. If you're looking to get Alexa in every room in your house, nearly every Echo device is on sale through the end of today, including some of the latest smart speakers, smart displays, and more.

The Echo Show 8 was Amazon's answer to the growing popularity of Google Assistant smart displays. It wasn't the company's first assistant-integrated display, but it did offer an improved design and more features compared to the original Echo Show. Now you can buy two for the price of one, as long as you do it today.

If you're in the market for a new smart display or speaker – and this awesome Google Nest bundle doesn't tickle your fancy – Amazon is basically running its own version of the same deal for its Echo line of products. Right now on Amazon, you can pick up a brand new Echo Show 8 with Echo Dot bundle for just .99 (.99 off), which is the price of an Echo Show 8 all by its lonesome.Headlining this bundle is the Echo Show 8, which features an 8" HD display, video calling and messaging support, and Amazon Photos album integration that can turn the Show into an active picture frame. You'll also get the newest third generation Echo Dot, which boasts improved speaker quality over the previous version and hands-free calling, all wrapped in an elegant fabric design. Since these are Echo products, you'll be able to carry out tasks using Alexa voice commands, such as getting the weather forecast, playing a specific song, and more.

If you can't decide between the 10-inch and 5-inch Echo Shows, Amazon unveiled an 8-inch smart display at the end of September, which offers a good compromise thanks to its compact footprint and fair-sized display. The device is now available on the retailer's site, selling for $130.The Echo Show 8 features a 7.9-inch 1280 x 800p display, a built-in front-facing camera for video calls, as well as four microphones and stereo speakers, letting you interact with Alexa and play music. For added privacy, the microphones and webcam can be turned off electronically, and an additional physical camera shutter prevents the device from seeing scenes it shouldn't witness. Your interactions with the smart display are controlled through your voice, but there are physical volume controls on top for added convenience. Lastly, if you'd like to connect your Echo Show 8 to an external speaker, you'll easily be able to do so thanks to the 3.5mm output.If you want to get one and didn't get a chance to pre-order yours, units are now in stock on Amazon's website in Charcoal and Sandstone fabric.Buy: Amazon

Having a smart display around can be pretty handy — mine lives in my kitchen, where it plays me podcasts and times my eggs. With the holidays coming up, you might be looking to gift one to someone or add a touch of convenience to your own home. If Amazon's Echo Show line is your style, now would be a great time to snatch one up. The Echo Show 8 is currently available for pre-order, and it's discounted to $99 (from $129).The Show 8, which launches on the 21st of this month, boasts smartly rounded corners and stereo speakers. It also has the privacy features of the smaller Show 5, allowing you to manually turn off the microphone and shutter the camera. In all, the Echo Show 8 is very much like the Show 5 but in a larger package. That extra screen real estate might be just what you need to easily read your calendar entries or enjoy episodes of Frasier while you cook.The Echo Show 8 comes in charcoal and sandstone colors, and both are on sale for . You can also purchase the Show 8 packaged with the Show 5 for a total of 0 ($50 off).Buy: Amazon Echo Show 8 pre-order — $99 ($30 off)

When it comes to selling what it makes, Amazon's Echo speakers are the company's bread and butter. But those speakers were, at one point, experiments and they've had their time to grow — just as much as that AmazonBasics microwave turned into a smart oven, but whatevs. So, we're here to talk about the new Echo Show smart display, wireless earbuds, a lamp, a pair of sort-of-smart glasses and a sort-of-smart ring.