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Amazon Echo (4th Generation)

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Wireless speaker | £90 | whf.cm/Echo-4thGen

Amazon’s inaugural smart speaker is back with a new look, a Zigbee smart hub built in and more potential under its 100 per cent recycled hood. You don’t need an especially keen eye to note that for this fourth-generation Echo, Amazon has decided to start from scratch.

The cylinder design has gone, in favour of a Magic 8-Ball-like sphere, and perhaps fittingly, you can ask it any question you want – as long as it’s plugged in and linked to your wi-fi.

Amazon is transferring its onceexclusive flagship Echo Plus features – greater audio power and a built-in smart home hub – to the overhauled Echo. This new Echo essentially usurps the Plus model in that it offers the ability to control Zigbee devices, promises better audio

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