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Both generations are also available with an embedded clock display for at-a-glance timing information, for a small bump in the price.įinally, the newer Echo Dot also has two variant designs aimed at children, which are perfect if you're looking for a smart speaker to put in a little one's bedroom or playroom.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. You can get both generations in black, grey and light blue colours, but a pink option is reserved for the older speaker at present. Otherwise, both speakers share the Alexa light-strip to let you know when the voice assistant is listening, or turned off, as well as four buttons on the top to let you adjust the volume, mute the speaker or confirm a range actions. The new version is also a little heavier, too, as a result of its increased size but also because of the aluminium used in its construction, compared to the more plastic feel of the older speaker. While that's given Amazon a bunch of space to fit in more tech, as we'll show later, it does mean that the newer Echo Dot won't necessarily fit in as many nooks and crannies as its predecessor. The actual footprint of the speaker is very similar to the previous version, but with a lot more height. That has also had an inescapable impact on the Dot's size - it's got a lot taller, effectively. There's no getting around it - Amazon changed the Echo Dot's design pretty radically, going from that distinctive puck shape to a globe of a smart speaker in the 2020 version.

We've compared them in detail across a few categories, to help you decide.

It was a radical departure, but with the 3-gen Echo Dot still on sale, you might be wondering which of the two you should pick up. However, few things in tech last forever and Amazon switched to an entirely new look for the Echo Dot back in 2020, very much a shrunken-down version of the 4-gen mainline Echo. Amazon's line of Echo Dot speakers was one of the more settled and consistent in tech over the last few years - its puck-shaped design was clearly doing something right as the Alexa speaker sold in its multitudes.