Amazon: Pre-Order New Echo Dot For Only $49.99 (+ Get Free Dot When You Buy Multi-Packs)
Just in time to kick off the holiday shopping season, Amazon.com is offering up pre-orders of the all new Echo Dot 2nd Generation for only $49.99 shipped – this item is set to be released on October 20, 2016!
The Echo Dot is a hands-free voice controlled device that uses Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, provide information, read the news, set alarms, and more. You can connect speakers or headphones via Bluetooth or stereo cable to play music from Prime Music, Spotify, Pandora and more. These are such cool devices – you can even ask it to sing Happy Birthday!
Great gift idea!
Save even more when you buy multiple Echo Dots – add either 6 or 12 Echo Dots to your Shopping Cart and then enter promo code DOT6PACK or DOT12PACK at checkout to see the discount applied.
Something I’m not clear on, but do you need to already have Amazon Echo for these to work, or do they work independently of Echo? (I’m a geek but not a technical one.)
It works independently, but to get the most out of it you would need to at least have Bluetooth speakers or headphones to use with it.
It has a built in speaker. You don’t need to use external speakers unless you want to.
The built in speaker is only for communication purposes, not intended for use to play music, news, etc.
My daughter uses it to solely play music off of Pandora and my Amazon playlist. If you don’t have the original echo, then I don’t think there is anything for it to communicate with and I don’t think any of the cool Alexa functions would work??
You do not need echo, and the dot has speakers, just not great ones for music. It has all the same functionality as Echo.
Christmas gifts for fam and myself!!!! Yay! Got the buy 5 get 1 free.
These will work great for us because I have a Bose portable speaker, surround sound in living room and a Jam Bluetooth speaker. So we can have one of these in living room, both daughters rooms, master bdrm and garage for the hubs. 😁
Just gotta buy one more Bluetooth portable speaker and good to go.
That’s awesome!
What is major difference between this and original echo? Any advantage to e8ther?
The larger Echo has the speaker built in. The speaker in the Dot is only intended for communication purposes (telling it what you want it to do), so you pretty much need to use the Dot with Bluetooth headphones or speakers.
Thanks
I’m still a bit thrown off by this but thought I would share my amazing deal….I went and placed a pre-order and when I reached checkout I was given a courtesy credit which ended up making this $28.36!
WOW! That’s amazing! Great score Jessica!
I have the full size Echo which I love and I bought a Dot today for another room. 🙂
Oh awesome!
People who bought an Amazon Echo already should have gotten an extra email about ordering through Alexa and getting a $10 credit for their next alexa purchase. Please check your emails.