Amazon Echo Spot | Smart Speaker with Display + Alexa

The Spot’s screen is primarily designed as a clock, showing just enough information to be useful and not so much to be annoying. Instead of the rotating content you find on the Echo Shows that sometimes push ads for Amazon’s services, the Spot just shows the current time and the time your next alarm is set. There’s also an option to show the weather and date.

The display is small enough to not be distracting at night thanks to a nighttime mode that switches to a simple red LED display. It has six fun clock faces for daytime, although two of them feel a bit squished in the small rectangle allotted to them.

It would look better if the screen took up the entire upper semicircle instead of just two-thirds of it. This could have enabled the neat Echo Show sunrise alarm clock feature that gradually brightens the whole screen.