Amazon may have all-but stumbled onto its hit Echo speaker and the smart Alexa assistant that powers it, but the new $49.99 Echo Dot proves the retailer has no intention of letting that momentum slip.

Tap will go for $129.99 with shipping in March. Amazon has a "sling" for the Tap for easy toting. The Dot will be $89.99 and be available to Amazon Prime members who already own Echo or Fire TV.

It's the Echo Dot, the hefty hockey puck of a device that just cleaves the top off an Echo. The Echo Dot has been the best-selling Alexa device since its debut.

Alexa, aka the Amazon Echo, is coming to two new members of the product line. The Amazon Tap is a portable version of the Echo to allow taking Alexa everywhere. The Echo Dot is a small device ...

The Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker is a great all-round device. Activated via Alexa-enabled voice commands, you can ask it questions to save you the bother of picking up your phone.

With the new premium $35 Alexa Voice Remote Pro, you can say "Alexa, find my remote" into any Echo device you own (or the ...

Because the Echo Dot is powered by Alexa, you will have a robotic friend to talk to in every room. And of course, you will also have access to more than 3,000 of Alexa’s skills.

Though you can order the Tap traditionally, the Dot is only available via Alexa voice shopping via an Echo or Fire TV (just say "Alexa, order an Echo Dot"). For more on the original, you can read ...

At least until Amazon finds a way to leverage Alexa’s powerful cloud brain to control more than one body at a time. Unboxing the Echo Dot My Echo Dot arrived exactly as promised on its launch date.

Echo Dot's internal speakers will still be useful, though. Not only do they pump out Alexa's answers to all your requests and questions, but you can use them in different ways depending on the ...

("Alexa, order Echo Dot" is the magic phrase.) The Dot is sort of a companion for the Echo, kind of, but not necessarily. It's just a smaller Echo, with a tiny (and bad) speaker.

Since it debuted in 2016, the Echo Dot has become a cheap and easy way to jump into Amazon's Alexa ecosystem (especially after the price dropped from the original $90 to $50).