Amazon Echo Show 10 HD Smart Display Review.

Alexa needs no introduction, and for many homes that use devices powered by Amazon's smart assistant, it's almost like a member of the family. Amazon has been quite proactive, adding new devices to its portfolio frequently, which means the Echo smart speaker range now has something for everyone, regardless of budget or specific needs.

From serving music on demand to controlling compatible smart home gadgets, and from answering questions to delivering news and weather updates, there's little Alexa can't do. And she (it seems quite natural for me to refer to the smart assistant as that), continues to evolve over time, adding new capabilities as well.

Amazon Echo Show 10 HD Smart Display The brand new Echo Show 10 comes as the most premium and most feature-packed offering from Amazon to date, and the Amazon Echo Show 10 HD Smart Display some of its capabilities are quite exciting. Echo Show 10 Let's take a closer look and see how it performs.

Design

Echo Show 10 In terms of both look and function, the new Echo Show 10 looks like a fusion of the Echo Studio and the previous generation. With a 10.1-inch screen slapped on a cylindrical base that houses the speaker system, the overall design looks a bit odd. Frankly, it's the simple design that allows it to rotate the screen and track you as you move around the room. enables.
I'll get into more details later, but you should know that the location of the new Echo Show 10 deserves some consideration because it just can't be placed in a corner. You have to make sure there is enough room for the screen to move around.

The motorized base with the screen can rotate almost a full circle, but the range of motion can also be adjusted if needed... The screen clearly looks like a large tablet with wide bezels. A large lens that hides the 13MP camera is placed on an arm on the edge of the speaker base on the top left.

At the top, you can see the mics, along with buttons to control volume, a key that mutes the mics, and a slider that triggers the physical camera shutter. The speaker on the Amazon Echo Show 10 is cloth-coated, and on the bottom right, there's a port for connecting the bundled adapter's barrel connector.

Display

The Amazon Echo Show 10 comes with a 10.1-inch display with a resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels, and as mentioned earlier, the speaker system in the Amazon Echo Show 10 can rotate on its motorized base. While it would be nice to have a higher resolution, the screen serves its purpose in terms of sharpness and clarity. However, it is quite reflective, which can be a problem if you place it in a well-lit place, or a lot of light. The screen is fixed in landscape orientation, although you can manually adjust the tilt if necessary.

The sound

Thanks to a pair of built-in 3-inch woofers and 1-inch tweeters, the Echo Show 10 can churn out the room-filling sound. Bass can get a little muddy when you turn up the volume, and in some cases, holding the screen in front affects the sound as well.

It can't match the Echo Studio or please audiophiles as far as pure audio quality is concerned, but the Echo Show sounds fine for casual listening… thanks to its use as a hybrid device. Meets cases that can serve both as music as well as basic visual entertainment etc.

The smarts

As the saying goes "behind every successful man there is a woman", Alexa is the one who is responsible for driving the Echo Show 10's smarts. As always, you can ask Alexa to play music, set a reminder or alarm, provide weather updates, create a shopping list, search the web, and more.

Amazon Echo Show 10 HD Smart Display  Thanks to the screen, the Echo Show 10 actually gives you a visual version of Alexa, so asking for the weather will give you icons, music playing can show you album art and song lyrics, and you'll usually get almost everything. Will go will get. will get. There are visual cues for what you do. You can also use the screen to watch videos through services like Prime Video, Netflix, and YouTube. The screen background can of course be customized, and you can even use it as a digital photo frame.

Smart home

Built-in is the Zigbee Hub, the Echo Show 10 so you can control compatible smart home devices without the need for an additional hub. Amazon Echo Show 10 HD Smart Display, Of course, the Echo Show 10 lets you control Wi-Fi-based, Alexa-compatible smart home devices using your voice. Echo Show 10 HD Smart Display A whole bunch of these are available in the Echo Show 10, including smart bulbs, smart plugs, universal IR remotes, robot vacuum cleaners, security cameras, and more. The Echo Show 10 is what I'm going for here, but once you have an Echo smart speaker or smart display, it's fairly simple and economical to set up a basic smart home system that you can control with voice.

Motion features

The new Echo Show 10's Motion feature is really the highlight of the device. In short, its 13MP camera can track you, and the screen pops up in front of you when you say the wake word. In fact, the screen will continue to move as you move around the room. It's extremely cool, futuristic, and scary all at the same time.

The feature also works for video calls, video chat functionality that enables you to have face time with friends or family who have Echo devices with screens, or log into the Alexa app on your smartphone. The brushless motor makes no noise at all, so your calls are unaffected.

Of course, the novelty wears off after a few days, but this feature can come in handy if you want to use the Echo Show 10 extensively for video calls. The caveat is that you need good ambient lighting, without which the motion features won't work. The motion features are also disabled when the privacy shutter is turned off.

Home monitoring

Another very useful feature in the Echo Show 10's repertoire is home monitoring. It needs to be enabled in device settings (on Echo Show 10 devices, not the Alexa app), and after that, the Echo Show 10 shows up as a connected camera in the Devices tab of the Alexa app. Using this, you can monitor the room where the device is placed from anywhere in the world, although privacy may be a concern.

Privacy Shutter can help, and in Settings, you also get the option to delay the video feed and set an audio alert before the camera starts streaming video. Amazon Echo Show 10 HD Smart Display  Of course, the home monitoring feature can be extremely useful for monitoring children or the elderly at home and other similar scenarios.

Verdict

The Echo Show 10 (3rd-gen) will set you back Rs 24,999, making it Amazon's most valuable Echo device in India. Even Echo Studio is cheap and should be your first choice if music quality is of major (unexpected) importance to you. It's not that the Echo Show 10 is bad in terms of audio, just that the Studio is better. However, the studio does not have a screen.

You'll need to figure out whether the Echo Studio 10 is for you, and it's not an easy task, especially as Amazon has a wide array of Echo smart speakers and smart displays available, spanning various price points. Is. The beauty of the Echo Show Studio 10 is that it is like an all-rounder, and the speed it offers can't be compared to anything else so far.

Amazon Echo Show 10 HD Smart Display  Apart from being a capable smart display cum speaker, it is great for video calls and also comes in handy for home monitoring. Most importantly, it's a fun device.