{"id":34956,"date":"2019-05-29T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T18:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=34956"},"modified":"2019-05-29T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T18:43:12","slug":"shut-up-and-take-my-money-echo-show-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/shut-up-and-take-my-money-echo-show-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut Up and Take My Money: Echo Show 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"shut_up_and_take_my_money\"<\/a>For those that have been hesitant to pick up an Echo Show due to the cost, Amazon has finally brought the MSRP of a Show under $100. Starting at a $90 MSRP, the\u00a0Echo Show 5<\/a> features a\u00a05.5-inch touchscreen.<\/p>\n

That’s roughly half the screen size of the $230 Echo Show (2nd Gen), but twice the screen size of the $130 Echo Spot. The Echo Show 5 screen has a\u00a0960 x 480 resolution versus the\u00a0720p resolution on the larger 10.1-inch model.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, this is the first Echo Show with a privacy shutter for the camera.<\/span> It also comes with a button to disable the camera and microphone, ideal for anyone that wants to completely eliminate the possibility of Amazon listening.<\/p>\n

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Of course, there are some downsides to a sub-$100 device. The camera in the Show 5 is only 1MP, versus the 5MP camera in the $230 model. There is no Zigbee smart home hub integration and there’s only one 4-watt speaker versus the two 10-watt speakers in the $230 model.<\/p>\n

However, these specs are better than the $130 Echo Spot, which features a 2.5-inch display at\u00a0480 x 480 resolution, a\u00a0VGA camera, and a single 2-watt speaker. All devices are integrated with Amazon Alexa obviously.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Echo Show 5 will ship on June 26, 2019. It comes in two colors, charcoal<\/a> and sandstone<\/a>. You can check out the device in the pictures below:<\/p>\n

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For those that have been hesitant to pick up an Echo Show due to the cost, Amazon has finally brought the MSRP of a Show under $100. Starting at a $90 MSRP, the\u00a0Echo Show 5 features a\u00a05.5-inch touchscreen. That’s roughly half the screen size of the $230 Echo Show (2nd Gen), but twice the screen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1502,537,1515,2091],"class_list":["post-34956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-echo","tag-echo-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34956"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34973,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34956\/revisions\/34973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}