Great for smart-home control. Easy to customize onscreen widgets for content you want to see. Still a fully featured smart speaker that can play music, answer questions, and check the weather. No ads!

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Amazon's line of Echo Show smart displays dates back to 2017 ...

The Echo Show 15 is Amazon's biggest and most expensive smart display. Part smart TV, part central home hub aimed at families, the $280 Echo Show 15 has the potential to be useful, but only for a ...

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There are a ton of tricks that smart displays can do. But not all of them are created equal or are worth doing on this style of advice. The basics are easy—just about anyone knows how handy it is to ...

The screen uses Amazon’s negative liquid crystal design to enhance picture quality while reducing the number of protective laminate layers required. Behind the screen, a mostly spherical base is ...

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Telling Jeff Bezos he’s wrong is always a frightening proposition. In the fall of 2014, though, a small group of the men and women building Amazon’s new voice-controlled speaker felt they needed to ...