{"id":25643,"date":"2016-09-14T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=25643"},"modified":"2016-09-14T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T18:30:07","slug":"amazon-slashes-price-of-echo-dot-by-nearly-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/amazon-slashes-price-of-echo-dot-by-nearly-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut Up and Take My Money: $50 Echo Dot (2nd generation)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"shut_up_and_take_my_money\"<\/a>While Google preps to release\u00a0their Echo-competitor, Amazon has made a move that might make the Google Home family of devices obsolete before it’s even released.<\/p>\n

Reducing the price on the\u00a0Echo Dot by nearly half, Amazon has opened up orders<\/a> for the tiny Dot to the public at a price of $50. That’s $40 less than the original retail MSRP of $90!<\/p>\n

Amazon is making a play as the dominant controller of your smart home in a big way. Offering discounts on six-pack or 12-packs of Echo Dot, Amazon wants you to place Dots all over your home. This will\u00a0allow everyone in your family to have access to the Alexa voice assistant all the time.<\/p>\n

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It will give all of your “dumb” speaker systems\u00a0a smart connection to streaming music services like Pandora and Spotify. It will act as a alarm clock for all of your bedrooms. Assuming you have other smart home devices, it will be able to adjust the temperature, flip the lights on\/off, lock the front door from any room in the house. You won’t have to do to the smart home controller anymore or even find your smartphone. You just have to speak.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the core differences between the 1st generation and 2nd generation Echo Dot:<\/p>\n