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Amazon Echo Dot (5th generation)
The UK's cheapest mainstream smart speaker. The 5th-gen Echo Dot adds a temperature sensor, eero mesh support and richer sound than the 4th-gen.
- Speaker
- 1.73-inch front-firing speaker
- Audio output
- Mono (use two for stereo pairing)
- Microphones
- Far-field (4 mics) with mute toggle
- Wireless
- Wi-Fi 5 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 5.0
- Smart home protocols
- Matter, Thread (planned), Sidewalk, eero built-in
- Voice assistant
- Alexa
- Sensors
- Temperature, motion (Tap to Alexa), accelerometer
- Display
- LED ring (Echo Dot 5) or LED clock display (Echo Dot 5 with Clock variant, +£10)
- Power
- 15W power adapter (mains, not battery)
- Dimensions
- 100 × 100 × 89 mm, 304g
- Typical UK price
- £54.99 RRP, regularly £29-39 in Prime Day / Black Friday