Average audio quality compared with dedicated Bluetooth speakers
Inconvenient push-to-talk
Competitors and Related Products
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Sunday morning, lying in bed after a wine-soaked Saturday in Monterey, I rolled over and did what I do most mornings (no, not that ): I asked Alexa the weather. Normally, my Amazon Echo chirps to life at the sound of its name and provides a quick...
When the Echo Dot comes out Oct. 20, Amazon will have three devices that can respond to your voice commands: the original Echo , the Echo Dot and the Tap. So which Amazon device is right for you?On price alone, the $49 Echo Dot is the most...
Amazon Tap improves upon the Echo's legacy by adding dual stereo speakers and a battery pack … only to take two steps back by cutting out one of its predecessor's most important...
The Amazon Tap is a fine portable wireless speaker, but it's difficult to recommend when there are better products with Alexa, like Amazon's Echo or Echo...
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The Amazon Tap is a competent mix of portable Bluetooth speaker and digital assistant. It's worth a look if you want Alexa on-the-go, but the Tap isn't the best Bluetooth speaker or the best Alexa-enabled device you can...
Amazon pitches the Tap as an “Alexa-enabled portable Bluetooth speaker;” in other words, a mobile Echo. It's not. Without hands-free access to Alexa, and with even more lackluster audio capabilities, the Tap is more of a digital curiosity than a virtual...
The $129 Amazon Tap puts Alexa in a portable and attractive body that's $50 less than the wall-outlet-bound Amazon Echo. All those smarts come in pretty handy, but you have to tap the device every single time you want to use Alexa, which diminishes this...
After more than a year of flying under the radar by tech standards, Amazon's Alexa voice-controlled assistant platform is looking to become more mainstream, and one of its first moves to that end is to become more portable – with the new Amazon Tap ....
With the Alexa-enabled Echo Dot and Tap devices, Amazon explores how exactly its voice assistant might more conveniently fit into our lives. The $90 Dot is a hockey puck-sized version of the Echo (sans giant speaker), which needs outlet power and is...
The Amazon Tap works as well as the Amazon Echo. It also includes all the cool Alexa Voice Service Skills that the larger more expensive version has. At $129.99 it's still a little pricey.I still wish the Alexa app turned my phone into an Echo device....
Amazon landed with a splash in the smart home space, the Echo smart speaker opening our eyes to the potential of voice control, and Alexa hasn't stopped accelerating since. Now Echo has a baby sibling, Amazon Tap, a Bluetooth speaker that allows you to...
Amazon TapThe GoodCompact size • Comes with Alexa • Convenient wireless charging cradleThe BadAlexa isn't hands-free • Lower than average battery life • Average sound • Sling Covers cost extraThe Bottom LineAlexa's not the same when you need to...
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