Amazon Fire TV Cube review: great smart TV box, irritating smart speaker
by Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#4XN8C)
Top-end smart TV box can't quite live up to the promise of the voice-controlled TV commander
The Fire TV Cube is Amazon's attempt to combine a smart TV streaming box with an Alexa-powered smart speaker, producing a small black box that doubles as an Echo device.
The Cube doesn't look like anything else. The combination of shiny and matt black plastic makes it stand out at first, but the 86mm-wide and 77mm-tall cube is small enough not to be distracting sitting next to your TV.
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