Amazon’s Echo Hub is down to its best price yet​ 

Aug 20, 2024

The Echo Hub is a smart home controller that’s simple to use and set up and is currently $35 off at multiple retailers. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

If you’re looking for a simple and intuitive smart home controller even the most tech-averse family members or roommates can use, Amazon’s Echo Hub is an excellent solution. And right now, it’s down to an all-time low price of $144.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo.

The Echo Hub lets you control a wide range of smart home devices like smart lights, security devices, thermostats, and more by simply tapping its eight-inch touchscreen. It’s also mountable, so you can hang it up in the kitchen or some other place for the whole household to access. Naturally, as an Amazon gadget, the Echo Hub integrates best with Alexa, making it a particularly great buy if your smart home runs on a bunch of Alexa-enabled devices. However, the…

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​The Echo Hub is a smart home controller that’s simple to use and set up and is currently $35 off at multiple retailers. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

If you’re looking for a simple and intuitive smart home controller even the most tech-averse family members or roommates can use, Amazon’s Echo Hub is an excellent solution. And right now, it’s down to an all-time low price of $144.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo.

The Echo Hub lets you control a wide range of smart home devices like smart lights, security devices, thermostats, and more by simply tapping its eight-inch touchscreen. It’s also mountable, so you can hang it up in the kitchen or some other place for the whole household to access. Naturally, as an Amazon gadget, the Echo Hub integrates best with Alexa, making it a particularly great buy if your smart home runs on a bunch of Alexa-enabled devices. However, the…

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The Echo Hub is a smart home controller that’s simple to use and set up and is currently $35 off at multiple retailers.Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

If you’re looking for a simple and intuitive smart home controller even the most tech-averse family members or roommates can use, Amazon’s Echo Hub is an excellent solution. And right now, it’s down to an all-time low price of $144.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo.

The Echo Hub lets you control a wide range of smart home devices like smart lights, security devices, thermostats, and more by simply tapping its eight-inch touchscreen. It’s also mountable, so you can hang it up in the kitchen or some other place for the whole household to access. Naturally, as an Amazon gadget, the Echo Hub integrates best with Alexa, making it a particularly great buy if your smart home runs on a bunch of Alexa-enabled devices. However, the Echo Hub also supports Matter and Thread, so you can connect it to other smart home platforms if you need to.

As a nice extra, you can also use the Echo Hub like an ad-free Echo Show to play music and stream videos. It doesn’t sound as good as the Echo Show 8 and lacks a camera, but given the Echo Hub is primarily a smart home dashboard, those tradeoffs are forgivable.

Read our Amazon Echo Hub review.

Amazon Echo Hub

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Amazon’s new Echo Hub is kind of like a small Fire tablet you mount on your wall that gives you full-time access to all your smart home controls. It’s got an eight-inch touchscreen and support for Matter and Thread.

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You can buy the Sonos Ace for $399 ($50 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo, which is the best price we’ve seen on the wireless headphones. The Ace headphones deliver top-notch noise cancellation and sound, but what makes them really stand out is how well they integrate with the Sonos home audio ecosystem. If you own a Sonos soundbar like the Arc, Beam, or Ray, you can connect them so you can listen to the TV privately via your headphones. Amazon’s Echo Spotis on sale for $54.99 ($25 off) from Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, which is $10 shy of its all-time low price. The Alexa-enabled smart speaker and alarm clock hybrid is semispherical like the Echo Pop while delivering good sound. However, unlike the Echo Pop, it offers a small smart display for showing the time, weather, and music playback but without the camera found in larger Echo Show displays for an extra sense of privacy.Best Buyis currently running a buy two, get one free deal on select Nintendo Switch titles. The sale includes some highly anticipated games like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and the first new Mario & Luigi game in nine years, Mario & Luigi: Brothership. It also includes beloved older games, ranging from Super Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart 8 to Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

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