The freshly announced item will be a conversation starter when mounted on a wall in your home, and is especially well-suited to the kitchen. It has a black border and white bezels that more closely resemble an aesthetic frame than a piece of cutting-edge technology. You can ask questions, play music, read news headlines, look up recipes, set alarms, make calls, and more, just like the rest of the smart speakers in our list of the best ones. Each side has speakers, and on the back is where you’ll attach the wall-mounting plate and plug in a power adaptor. Thankfully, there are no logos or branding on the front other than the camera, which is visible in the top left corner. It is fashionable but not what we would call a subtle or nimble device, and depending on your own particular design preferences, it may be a pro or a con. With dimensions of 148 x 86 x 73 mm (W x H x D) and a weight of 2,215 g, the Echo Show 15 is a somewhat hefty device. This won’t matter at all on the wall, but it’s something to keep in mind because it doesn’t have the portability of some of the other models in the line. Overall, it’s a stylish, unoffensive style that should fit well with most homes. You can buy this speaker from its official website. A smart speaker with a screen can do more than just the usual things, like play music and cook pasta until it’s just the right amount of al dente. It can also provide recipes or instructional films (not to mention more entertaining fare while your madeleines are in the oven).
Interface and performance
It has a new user interface that enables the home screen to be populated with “widgets” that resemble apps and display information like the weather, traffic, and Post-it-like sticky notes where I might post motivational quotes (“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s greatest friend. (From Groucho Marx: “And inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.”) Or I could just tell my loved ones that the family meal is tonight. The screen of the Echo Show 15 is pretty bright, and SpongeBob or the stream from your baby monitor seem great at HD quality. However, the user interface is very rigid. Only five widgets can be visible at once, and your total allowed is 10. I found that some widgets, like the stickies, were overly huge, while others, like my to-do list, could have used a little more room. But it was unable to shrink or resize the widgets. In fact, as I typed a note on the Stickies widget, I couldn’t help but consider how much easier and less expensive it would be to accomplish the same task with a $2 stack of Post-its and a $16 Ansel Adams wall calendar. The widgets allowed me to quickly see all of my information. The “smart home favourites” widget, which allows me to check the feeds from my security cameras and manage my smart lighting with a single swipe, was heavily utilised by me. I particularly enjoyed the picture-in-picture live camera view, which let me watch a video and see who was at the front door.
Price and availability
A Chromebook or even a small TVs may be purchased for the same amount of money as the $250 price tag on the Echo Show 15. Despite its high price, the Echo Show 15 is rated lower than the Show 8 and Show 10, which are far less expensive and smaller. While the idea of a sizable, wall-mounted smart home centre in your kitchen continues to be alluring, the Echo Show 15 is an uninspiring representation of this reality. even if you can locate a location to mount it permanently on your wall.
