All-new Echo Dot (4th Gen) | Smart speaker with Alexa | Charcoal
$22.32
Last updated on March 12, 2025 10:59 pm Details
- Meet the all-new Echo Dot – Our most popular smart speaker with Alexa. The sleek, compact design delivers crisp vocals and balanced bass for full sound.
- Voice control your entertainment – Stream songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, SiriusXM, Deezer and others. Play music, audiobooks, and podcasts throughout your home with multi-room music.
- Ready to help – Ask Alexa to tell a joke, play music, answer questions, play the news, check the weather, set alarms, and more.
- Control your smart home – Use your voice to turn on lights, adjust thermostats, and lock doors with compatible devices.
- Connect with others – Call almost anyone hands-free. Instantly drop in on other rooms or announce to the whole house that dinner’s ready.
- Designed to protect your privacy – Built with multiple layers of privacy protections and controls, including a microphone off button that electronically disconnects the microphones.
9 reviews for All-new Echo Dot (4th Gen) | Smart speaker with Alexa | Charcoal
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Heather –
The light bulb with the echo is so much fun to use. Easy to set up easy to use. Great quality on both products. I am very happy with my purchase. Thank you
Barry –
Alexa and the new light bulb both work pretty well…. Overall Alexa can be a real pain in the rear, but most of the time she does what I ask and does a pretty good job of it. Alexa does require a level of patience, but once you get her configured correctly, I think you will be happy with her running your house lights, fans, television, stereo, cable box, etc…. NOTE: some devices will require additional devices to work with Alexa, like the logitech Harmony HUB for running your TV, cable box and stereo as one unit. So YES, I like Alexa/Echo.
H W –
I bought this as a gift to a friend and here is his review:
I have returned this product when I learned that I can only manually pick songs if I have Amazon Music. This product is supposed to make one feel easy, but I had an unpleasant experience telling Alexa to play specific songs. The app does not provide an interface for one to select a song.
I an switching to a Google Nest & urge you readers to do so. The app is barely functional & Alexa has a lot of bugs. You have lost a client & potential purchases when people read the truth, Amazon.
Melanie –
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HIGHLIGHTS of the new Echo Dot
1) The response time is a little faster than on its predecessor. That said, I don’t know if it’s me, but I feel like Alexa can’t hear me as well as on my gen3.
2) Great new spherical shape.
3) I really like the new location of the light which is now located at the bottom of the device. I find it more visible since it illuminates the surface on which the device is placed.
4) The sound is “richer” with a little more bass and a wider angle of sound diffusion.
5) The installation is very easy, 5 minutes and it’s done!
WEAKNESSES
1) The CHARCOAL echo comes with a WHITE power cable… we agree that it’s not very aesthetic… in any case, I don’t like it. If I chose a black color it’s because there was a reason, wasn’t there?
2) The power supply box is still as big as ever! Come on! it takes two power outlets wide…
3) The buttons are really ugly and look cheap compared to previous generations. They’re made out of some kind of plastic and are a little bit raised. I definitely preferred the smooth and flat buttons of the Echo Dot 3.
4) Needs a few updates to improve the French Canadian version.
I mainly use the Echo Dot to listen to my music on my sound bar. It’s the functions, stop, pause, up/down the sound, put the sound at 3 to 7, next, who’s that artist, add that song to my playlist, etc. that make my music listening experience much more enjoyable. No need to change tabs, or get up, everything is controlled by voice! Really convenient the voice technology combined with a subscription such as Amazon Music, Deezer and/or Spootify to listen to your music.
SOUND | Compared to the Echo Dot 3rd generation, this one (4th gen) has a slightly improved sound. Probably this spherical style allows for a greater angle of sound diffusion. Rather than being propelled only upwards as on the 3rd gen, it diffuses both upwards and forward. In any case, if you don’t like the sound of this dot, you can always pair your device with your sound bar/home theater. Personally, that’s what I do, so sound quality is not a big concern for me. Having said that, I think it sounds really good for an alarm clock sized device! Also, the sound is much louder and richer than on the Echo Dot 3rd Gen no matter what some people say.
IN SUMMARY | It can be used as an alarm clock, a timer, a calendar reminder, a calculator, help you fall asleep at night, answer your questions, give you quizzes, etc. There are so many things that can be done with this device that it is impossible to list them all here! Also, if you have other types of smart equipment, such as light bulbs, smart plugs, etc. you will surely find your own connection with this Echo Dot.
HaligonianCanuck –
It’s a touch smaller than I thought. Sound is great on the new fourth Gen echo. Response is faster than the previous Gen’s. The lights on the bottom reflects light on the surface well. I wouldn’t say it’s absolutely worth upgrading, if it’s not necessary. It does the same thing as the 3rd gen, sound is a touch better than the 3rd gen, despite a few seconds faster in response time, I wouldn’t suggest running out to upgrade. It is great for people who don’t have one, or those who collect these devices.
Amazon Customer –
I love the Echo Dot we have three now. But the included Sengled LED bulb is probably the worst one available. It often for no reason loses connectivity and Alexa complains the lights aren’t responding. After days of rebooting and resetting we may have finally got them to work again, but it’s touch and go. I would purchase the Alexa by itself and get a different brand bulb if I had to do it again.
Duane M –
We have several echoes in the house. This was by far the easiest to setup. The sound quality is amazing.
Brian B. Shirley –
The Alexa works well; great for calling out items to put on the grocery or shopping list when you are in the middle of cooking, cleaning, etc. Plays music while I’m cooking. Overall very fun and useful. However, the Sengled lights are pathetic. I have to reset them about once a week. And half the time Alexa doesn’t recognize the devices. Get the Alexa, but get different lights for it to control.
Edward –
Fantastic product crippled by lack of standard features support by Amazon in Canada. I use to be a Google home user however started to find it was having issues and was becoming a frusterating excersise. Over the holidays there were great deals on amazon echo products so purchased one to try and was impressed with how it incorporated with my smart home devices. I then purchased two more echos and and an 8 inch echo show for the kitchen and wanting it for recipes and cooking.
There was lots of information about All recipes which I use and Alexa being able to recognize the voice of multiple users, my self, wife and kids to offer customer responses and individual calenders, music Ext.
I attempted to get the All recipes set up and after having a great deal of difficulty had to do lots of research and found the All recipes Alexa echo show is not supported in Canada, very disappointing and I could find no other equivalent apps/skills that were even close to the usefulness of All recipes.
I then attempted to set up the voice recognition profiles for a household for myself and my wife so we could get the benifit from customized options Alexa offers, but again had a great deal of trouble and after an hour and researching found that this household ability is not enabled for Canadian users.
These are great devices, however they have been crippled by the lack of support for Canadian users. I could not find any future plans or information that indicate plans for Amazon to offer the basic features of the device or telling buyers some of the main features don’t work.
Amazon if your reading this please comment on future support so purchasers are aware.