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    Amazon Echo Dot (4th Generation)

    Mar 03, 2021 3 minutes

    £50

    View online review whf.cm/EchoDot4thGen

    When Amazon abandoned its puck-shaped Echo Dot last year and served up a spherical design instead, there was much mocking and laughter online. Amazon wasn’t the first to consider a spherical audio solution, of course, and plenty of other manufacturers have extolled the virtues of gastropod shapes, so is the new globular Dot better than its puck-shaped predecessor? And, might the public change its tune over time?

    The Echo Dot is similar to the Apple HomePod Mini in stature; placed side

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