Amazons echo spot Is a good as hell alarm clock

The smartphone made the standalone alarm clock worthless. Sure you probably know some alarm clock holdouts (a parent or grandmother perhaps), but you probably just use your phone, which is already resting on the nightstand and has a decent enough alarm. The $130 Amazon Echo Spot, a new, tiny, Alexa device with a camera, display, and shockingly powerful speaker, is so good that you won’t mind turning off the phone to let the Spot get to the business of waking you up every morning.

The Spot is, of course, not just an alarm clock. It’s an Alexa device, so it can do everything an Echo, Dot, or Show can do. That means the weather, news, and controlling your smartphone you expect from an Alexa device, plus the trailers for movies or clips from the local news you’d also expect from the Show.