Amazon has surprisingly slashed the prices of several of its Alexa products right before Christmas, meaning now is a great time to invest in the company’s smart speakers. The newest addition to the Echo line up, the Echo Pop, only came out in May but Amazon is currently selling it for £19.99, a huge saving on its usual £44.99 RRP.
The Echo Pop is a compact smart speaker that connects to your home Wi-Fi and reacts to voice commands, just as all smart speakers do. It can play the radio, set alarms, tell you the weather, read the headlines, and perform many other useful tasks for you throughout the day.
It connects to Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music (naturally) as well as BBC Sounds, or you can use it as a Bluetooth speaker and control the music with your phone rather than via voice commands.
If you want, you can also link the Pop up to your Amazon shopping account and ask it to re-order something you might be running low on. And if you pick one up in time for Christmas Day, you can ask Alexa to run a few trivia rounds to keep your guests entertained between dinner courses.
