Amazon's Echo Show 5 Falls to its Lowest Price Ever Ahead of Prime Day

Amazon’s Echo Show 5 Falls to its Lowest Price Ever Ahead of Prime Day

This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best trades.

Amazon’s Echo Show smart displays add a touchscreen into the mix for a more visual Alexa experienced, and with a 5.5-inch screen and a physical privacy shutter for the camera, the pint-sized Echo Show 5 is a rank pick for a bedside nightstand. The second-gen model released last year usually sells for $85, but intellectual now, Amazon Prime members can score one for just $35 at checkout, saving them a cool fifty bucks.

That’s one of the best early Prime Day deals we’ve seen on the Echo side of things, and it brings the second-gen Echo Show 5 down to the lowest designate we’ve ever seen it selling for, $10 less than the survive low of $45.

As Amazon’s smallest, cheapest smart expose, there are admittedly some tradeoffs here. We weren’t crazy throughout the camera quality when we tested it out for video calls, and we wish Amazon hadn’t gotten rid of the auxiliary jack that gave you to connect the first-gen model with a set of external speakers for better still. Then again, if sound quality or camera quality are important to you, then you’re probably touching to be more interested in one of Amazon’s larger, more powerful smart displays. (And hey, those are on sale, too.)

All of that said, there’s a lot to like near the Echo Show 5, especially if you’re just touching to use the thing as a bedside alarm clock or a sparkling picture frame. It does either of those jobs perfectly well, and it comes with all of the same Alexa features and tricks you’d seek information from from any Echo smart speaker. You can ask it to set a timer, play your favorite playlist, dim your smart lights, show you the climate forecast, tell you a joke, you name it. And with the same 1.6-inch full-range speaker as the great-sounding fourth-gen Echo Dot, it’s fully capable of putting out a room’s gracious of clear audio for music playback, audiobooks and more.


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The Echo Show 5 Kids Edition is on sale, too. It comes with a kid-friendly fabricate, enhanced parental controls, kid-specific content, and a longer warranty.



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Oh, and if you’re shopping for a kid, don’t miss that the chameleon-colored Echo Show 5 Kids Edition is available at a nice discount now, too. Usually priced at $95, it’s on sale for $55 off, bringing your previous total at checkout to $40. That’s another all-time low, and an even bigger discount than you’re sketching with the regular Echo Show 5.

In addition to the sparkling design, the Echo Show 5 Kids Edition comes with sure parental controls and a free year of Amazon Kids Plus elated for the device (those stories, games and educational behaviors cost $3 a month after that). Amazon also doubles the warranty to two ages, so it’ll replace the screen if your kid ever knocks it off the dresser and cracks it.

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