Amazon All-new Echo Plus (2nd Gen)

  • To set up your free bulb, plug in and set up your Echo Plus, plug in your bulb, and ask, “Alexa, discover my devices.”
  • Echo Plus has a built-in Zigbee hub to easily setup and control your compatible smart home devices, and an improved sound for streaming music.
  • New premium speakers powered by Dolby play 360° audio with crisp vocals and dynamic bass response. You can also use your voice to adjust equalizer settings.
  • Ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, read the news, check the weather, set alarms, control compatible smart home devices, call almost anyone, and more.
  • Set up your smart home without a separate hub. Ask Alexa to control compatible smart lights, switches, sensors, door locks, and more. Echo Plus also includes a built-in temperature sensor.
  • Ask Alexa for a song, artist, or genre from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, and more. With multi-room music, play music on compatible Echo devices in different rooms.
  • Call or message almost anyone hands-free. Instantly drop in on other rooms in your home or make an announcement to every room with a compatible Echo device.
  • With seven microphones, beamforming technology, and noise cancellation, Echo Plus hears you from any direction—even while music is playing.

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Description

Echo Plus features premium speakers for powerful 360° sound, and a built-in Zigbee smart home hub and temperature sensor. Just ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, make calls, and provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more. With the built-in hub, starting your smart home is easy.
Echo Plus connects to and controls smart lights, locks, plugs, sensors, and more. Just power on compatible products and say, “Alexa, discover my devices.” Echo Plus will automatically detect and set up those devices so you can control them with your voice. This simple set up process works with dozens of compatible smart home devices that use Zigbee. Echo Plus also supports every Works with Alexa smart home device.
Make your life easier at home. Use your voice to set timers, add items to lists, and create calendar events and reminders. You can also check the news, weather, or traffic. Ask for sports scores, movie showtimes, restaurant hours, or information.
Echo Plus has a new premium speaker design with Dolby Processing, engineered for high quality audio. Use your voice to ask for any song, artist, or genre from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, and more, and play music across compatible Echo devices across your home. You can also listen to Audible, podcasts, radio stations, and more.
Call almost anyone hands-free using your voice. Use Drop In to instantly connect to another compatible Echo at home or send an announcement across Echo devices, like calling the family for dinner or reminding the kids to go to bed.
Alexa has more than 50,000 skills and counting. Skills are like apps and help you do more such as playing Jeopardy!, meditating with Headspace, and falling asleep to rain sounds. Create your own skills with Alexa Skill Blueprints. Just say “Alexa, help me get started with skills.”
New skills are being added all the time. Discover them in the skills section of the Alexa app.

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Echo Dot Echo Echo Plus
Overview
Add Alexa to any room
Room filling sound with six fabrics or finishes
Premium room-filling sound and built-in smart hub
Speaker size
1.6″ speaker
2.5″ woofer and 0.6″ tweeter
3″ neodymium woofer and 0.8″ tweeter
Dual speakers, powered by Dolby
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Control smart home devices
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Built-in Zigbee smart home hub
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Streaming music
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Line-out with 3.5 mm cable or Bluetooth
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Line in or out
Free audio calls to US, Mexico, and Canada
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Echo Plus
Size
5.8” x 3.9” x 3.9” (148 x 99 x 99 mm)
Weight
27.5 oz. (780 grams) Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process
Wi-Fi connectivity
Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 and 5 GHz) networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
ZigBee connectivity
Built-in ZigBee smart home hub supports ZigBee light bulbs, locks, sensors, plugs, and in-wall switches.
Bluetooth connectivity
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo or from Echo to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS X devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported.
Audio
3.0” (76.2 mm) neodymium woofer and 0.8” (20 mm) tweeter
Alexa app
The Alexa app is compatible with Fire OS, Android, and iOS devices.
Accessibility Features
The Alexa app and Alexa-enabled products include several features for customers with accessibility needs related to vision, hearing, mobility, and speech.
Warranty and Service
1 year limited warranty and service included.
Setup Technology
Amazon Wi-Fi simple setup enables customers to connect smart devices to their Wi-Fi network in a few easy steps. Wi-Fi simple setup is another way Alexa is always getting smarter. Learn more
Included in the Box
Echo Plus, power adapter (30W), and Quick Start Guide.
Generation

Echo Plus 2nd Generation – 2018 release