Echo Show 8 - HD 8" smart display with Alexa - Charcoal Fabric
Price: | $159.00 & FREE Delivery. Details |
- Alexa can show you more: with an 8" HD screen and stereo sound, Alexa can help manage your day at a glance.
- Be entertained: ask Alexa to show you movie trailers, TV shows, movies, sports streams or the news. Or listen to radio stations, podcasts, and audiobooks.
- Connect with video calling and messaging: call friends and family who have the Alexa app or an Echo device with a screen. Make announcements to other devices in your home.
- Control your smart home: voice control compatible devices or manage them on the easy-to-use display. Ask Alexa to show you security cameras, control lights, and adjust thermostats.
- Make it yours: show off your albums from Amazon Photos. Customise your home screen. Create morning routines to start your day.
- Made to fit your life: find and follow your favourite recipes. Easily update to-do lists and calendars. Entertain the family with trivia and adventure games. Glance at weather and traffic on your way out.
- Designed to protect your privacy: electronically disconnect the microphones and camera with one press of a button. Slide the built-in shutter to cover the camera.
- An updated clock design that will display the time, weather, and date in larger digits is now available.
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Smart Speakers
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Alexa on the go
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With Screens
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Accessories
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Video Doorbells
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Security Cameras
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Accessories
See and do more with AlexaEcho Show 8 connects to Alexa to give you rich stereo sound with vivid visuals on an 8” HD screen. See on-screen lyrics with Amazon Music. Set alarms and timers. Display your favourite photos. Check weather and traffic as you head out. Catch up on news highlights and movie trailers. |
Entertainment for every part of your dayCatch up on today’s news and sports highlights. Watch TV shows, movies, music videos, or movie trailers from Prime Video and more. Listen to music from streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify and see song lyrics and album art with Amazon Music. |
Connect with your favourite peopleMake hands-free video calls to the Alexa app or another Echo with a screen. Use Announcements to send voice messages to every room with a supported Echo device, or use Drop In as a two-way intercom between rooms. |
More ways to control your privacyAlexa and Echo devices are built with multiple layers of privacy protection. From the microphone/camera off button and built-in shutter to the ability to delete your voice recordings, you have transparency and control over your Alexa experience. Learn more about Alexa privacy. |
Voice control your smart home |
Manage compatible smart home devices on the simple interactive display or use your voice. You can control lights and switches, set thermostats, or view security cameras. |
Alexa is happy to helpMake your life easier at home. Use your voice to set timers, add items to lists, and create calendar events and reminders. Find and follow your favourite recipes from Taste or live stream radio commentary for AFL or rugby. You can also check the news, weather, or traffic. Ask for sports scores, movie showtimes, restaurant hours, or information. |
Alexa has skillsWith thousands of skills and counting, Alexa is always getting smarter. Alexa skills are like apps and help you do more. Play family games, manage your household, meditate and more. Just say, “Alexa, what are your top skills?” |
Simple to set up and use
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Screen | 5.5” with 960 x 480 resolution | 8.0” with 1280 x 800p resolution | 10.1” with 1280 x 800 resolution | 10.1" with 1280 x 800 resolution |
Speakers | 1 x 1.7” @ 4W | 2 x 2.0” @ 10W per channel | 2 x 2.2” @ 10W per channel | 2 x 1.0" tweeters + 3.0" woofer |
Camera | 1 MP | 1 MP | 5 MP | 13 MP |
Built-in Zigbee Smarthome hub |
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Camera controls | Built-in camera shutter and microphone/camera off button | Built-in camera shutter and microphone/camera off button | Microphone/camera off button | Built-in camera shutter, microphone/camera off button |
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Technical Details
Echo Show 8
Size |
200 mm x 136 mm x 99 mm. |
Weight |
1037 grams, actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process. |
Display |
8.0” touch screen. |
Camera |
1MP camera with built-in shutter. |
Wi-Fi Connectivity |
Wifi required. Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks. |
Bluetooth Connectivity |
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo Show 8 or from Echo Show 8 to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS X devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported. |
Audio |
2.0” (52 mm) neodymium speakers with passive bass radiator. |
Alexa app |
The Alexa app is compatible with Android and iOS devices. View our list of supported operating systems. |
System Requirements |
Certain skills and services are subject to change, may not be available in all areas and may require separate subscriptions or other fees. |
Processor |
MediaTek MT 8163. |
Accessibility Features |
The Alexa app and Alexa-enabled products include several features for customers with accessibility needs related to vision, hearing, mobility and speech. Learn more about Alexa accessibility. |
Setup Technology |
Amazon Wi-Fi simple setup enables customers to connect smart devices to their Wi-Fi network in a few easy steps. Wi-Fi simple setup is another way Alexa is always getting smarter. Learn more about our setup technology. |
Warranty & Service |
Amazon Echo Show 8 is sold with a limited warranty of one year provided by the manufacturer. This Limited Warranty does not restrict or alter any non-excludable statutory consumer protections or rights you may have, including under the Australian Consumer Law. Use of Echo Show 8 is subject to the terms found here. |
Included in the Box |
Echo Show 8, power adaptor (30W)/cable (1.5m) and quick start guide. |
Privacy Features |
Wake word technology, streaming indicators, microphone/camera off button, built-in camera shutter, the ability to view and delete your voice recordings, and more. Visit the Alexa Privacy Hub to explore how Alexa and Echo devices are designed to protect your privacy. |
Customer reviews
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If you don't own one, then you will imediately think this is great. Let's see why:
The Echo Show 5 and 8 are essentially the same looking unit, except of course the 8 is larger in every dimension, and it looks great. The screen is fantastic and responsive, the sound is awesome, enough said. The difference between the Show 5 and Show 8 from a user point of view has nothing to do with the hardware, but the software.
The Show 5 software works great as a bedside clock, so if you want a great tabletop clock get the Show 5, as the software revolves around this feature.
The Show 8 on the otherhand has the same software as the Show (10), and for the most part displays pretty useless information and totally wastes the large screen area that could be used for so much better use.
There is nothing wrong with this unit, it works great, and if you get it on special, it's even better, but amazon should be looking at these reviews and updating the software to allow the end user to select how and what gets displayed on the screen, and not think they know better. Anyway that's my two cents worth.
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Do not buy this unless they update the clock and allow it to be made larger and with actual customization.
Any request for anything recipe related goes to the Taste skill with no ability to change, so I consider the garbage quality of how the Echo works with this skill valid for this review.
First, finding a recipe is fine, for instance ask "Alexa give me a recipe for tuna bake" will show some listings from Taste's site you can select by saying or clicking on screen. When you select a recipe though that is when the nightmare starts.
Alexa proceeds to read the entire ingredients, then wants to start reading all the steps. I DONT WANT THIS. I just want the ingredients up on screen with ability to then move to the steps when I want. There is no ability or way to have Alexa shut up, anything just closes the skill. If you switch between ingredients and steps just starts reading again.
Worst is you start preparing or cooking, turn around and the screen has "locked" or gone back to home and when you address Alexa it doesn't go back to where you were, opening Taste then gives option sometimes to resume to your previous recipe, after more forced dialogue, where you again then have to listen to all the crap from Alexa again. No options like "Alexa give me my last recipe" work, its just chance sometimes will state when opening Taste to go back to your previous.
Compare this to my phone. I google a recipe, get it on Taste loaded. At the worst if my phone times out and locks I unlock it and it is exactly where I was on the page. I'm not forced to listen to 10 seconds of inane pointless talking just to view my recipe, I don't have stupid voice that I can't stop reading out the whole thing.
Amazon advertise this as being for a kitchen, but its not, it doesn't work and if you want to use it for that purpose buy a cheap as anything android tablet, stick it to the wall and just lookup recipes on that.
If I had know this I would not have bought it and would have waited to see if the clock function was at least as good as the Echo five. At the moment it is not.
My recommendation don't buy it if you want a customizable clock that uses the full screen. Let's hope the programmers who wrote the code for this product fix it soon. If not I will be getting rid of it.
The wallpaper is great but while nagging along the bottom no way of finding where photo was taken. It will be more useful as time goes on but lose the suggestions.