Amazon Echo Dot review: as good as the Echo for one-third of the price

Small gadget brings voice control to almost any smart device in the home, while playing music, answering questions and telling you the weather

The Amazon Echo Dot is essentially all the bits of an Amazon Echo that make it interesting, but without the speaker beneath it - and so it costs just one-third of the price.

The Dot is one of three Alexa-enabled products from Amazon that puts the company's voice assistant front and centre. Only two, the Echo Dot and the Echo are available in the UK: the third, the portable Bluetooth speaker called Amazon Tap, is only available in the US.