Echo Show 8 (3rd Generation, 2023 release), HD smart touchscreen with spatial audio, smart home hub, Charcoal, with Alexa+ Early Access

My first Show device. Good picture and sound quality. Ideal as stand alone or integrated into home management security and entertainment system. Not yet scratched the surface of its capability but a nice handy size clock, picture frame, infotainment centre and general Alexa product.

My wife loves it. Easy to use apps and loves watching Netflix while cooking. Sound quality is great and picture quality is very good.

Sound is nice and full at moderate to loud volumes but (as with most speakers except Bose) becomes quite thin as low volumes. Not a major criticism as generally expected and does fill a room when louder. Why did I buy this? I am working with Echo multi-speaker to try and give me a Sonos-like function. I gave connected Echo Dots to stereo amps and power amps as well as an Echo Plus and this Echo Show. It is brilliant to have the same music playing in 4 rooms, my workshop and BBQ area! Plus the Show displays the album artwork. I’m probably not really using its main function of a GUI and display but so far it’s a nice addition to my hone setup. The screen is nice but the touch controls are not quite as sophisticated as an iPad. For the price it’s very good.

Excellent performance in sound and picture. Would not buy at full price. Better to buy when discounted.

Really pleased, exactly what I needed. Screen quality is really good, it’s easy to use, and the sound quality is brilliant.

Very good quality Good value

We have some echo dots and wanted to upgrade to an echo show for the kitchen, so we can talk to family, see whose at the door after we connect the ring bell to the show. It's set up was easy, as we had dots already Amazon offered to make the set up easier, all we did was plug it in connect to the router and it picked up the rest, when you play music it writes up what's playing, it's volume goes much louder than the dots it's much clearer for those with poor hearing the sound quality is also much better too, it might seem costly but it's well worth it for the improvement we've found, the only problem we have found is that it doesn't always stop when you tell it to, it miss hears commands, sometimes we have to switch it off and on to rectify the lack of rme sponse, otherwise my husband would be at a loose end without it. It's compact the screen is large enough to see clearly, it looks good we chose black as white in a kitchen would for ever need cleaning, I have found that because it can link with the dots with in our house it can turn on or off alarms & lights being controlled by another dot, brilliant fit controlling Alexa controlled plugs bulbs etc so if you forget to turn it off the show will do it when you request it.

OK, I'm giving a one-star review so lets start by talking about just the Echo Show device itself. As a piece of electronic hardware, it is solid and reliable. I think it looks OK, sounds OK and has a good screen. So what's my beef? 1) I hate the adds, I've almost turned them all off but in order to do that, I had to turn everything else off too. i.e. no cycling through family photos, weather pages etc. I've literally got my Echo Show just showing the time. If any alert comes up (doorbell, reminder etc.) then I still get ads. 2) The camera doorbell display works great in theory but it has to go through the internet. In practice, this means that I have to chase visitors down because they have waited 30 seconds after ringing the doorbell and assumed no one is home. 3) With regard to connecting to other devices, I find that it's quite good if you like your devices randomly disconnecting and requiring a re-install of the 'skill' that interfaces between Alexa and the device. Every Alexa 'skill' I've installed so far (only about four) has one or two star reviews because they just don't work reliably. My Eufy vacuum cleaner worked great for a while but now I just can't get it to reconnect. My TV connectivity works most of the time. Lights and mains switches seem to be fairly reliable. 4) Privacy is a real problem. Alexa says she's not spying on you, she's lying. Use Youtube videos to go through a bunch of steps that reduce the spying to a minimum. e.g. You'll discover recording's of all your Alexa commands. Apparently this is necessary for speech training. Really? Well I turned it off and speech recognition works fine without it. I bought Alexa and a bunch of compatible devices in one go before reading around. Please don't make the same mistake. Having now read around, Home Assistant seems to be the way to go. I'm still on Alexa for now though :-(

Would highly recommend to anyone who loves tech perfect size for bedroom and definitely a helpful gadget

Had previously owned an echo. But the Echo 8 totally exceeds it. Great sound. I use it for recipes, very convenient to be able to see ingredients and instructions on the screen. Would definitely recommend.

Simply super to control all activities

Lovely alexa

Good quality