Ever went to somebody’s house and wondered, “Why does he own a weird-looking speaker with LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) which clearly seems expensive than other musical solutions?”
Then my friend you might be wrong at this notion. Smart speakers may look like ordinary speakers with a fancy touch of LEDs but, they are more than ordinary speakers. A smart speaker as the name suggests is a smart device which when connected to your home Wi-Fi can control any device which has connectivity capabilities.
Unlocking your smart lock, turning ON your smart bulb, turning ON your Air Conditioner and many other capabilities comes packed within the command of your voice.
So, here we will look at Best 4 Smart Speakers which can do smart things and play music too, Enjoy!
1. Amazon Echo input(Portable Edition):
A portable edition of Amazon’s Echo Dot housing Alexa as its brain. Being an Amazon product, it is bound to have a lot of discussable features:
A massive battery: One of the biggest tests of portability is traveling. Traveling sets the bar for how resistant your device is to dying. You don’t usually have the luxury of charging your device frequently.
And that’s where; the massive battery capacity of 4800 mAh (milliamp Hour) comes to the rescue. Housing this amount of battery power can easily tackle the traveling problem without any hitch.
A huge array of commands: From third-party software for smart devices to general tasks, the echo Dot portable definitely takes the user experience to a great height.
Playing music, asking about daily news, and of course, turning ON those smart devices have never been so easier.
Ease of control: It wouldn’t be a smart speaker if it doesn’t house physical buttons. Ease of accessibility has always been a part of automation and avoiding them is a perennial sin.
With LEDs and physical buttons for actions, volume, and power control; controlling the Echo Dot portable has never been so easier.
A small feature for privacy: Ever had the notion that somebody might be spying on you? I have and it’s a natural instinct. Well, there is a way to ease that pressure with the mute button for the microphone.
This Made in India product with 2600 milli Amperes battery, Bluetooth 4.2 connection enabled speaker, retails at about 1699 INR. Having a beautiful cube-shaped structure like:
Ease of Connectivity: Being a built-in Alexa speaker, you got to have the ease of voice controls. Voice controls in nature are meant to be a ‘touch less’ feature, this means any question, any command can be conveyed through your voice to the speaker easily.
Of course, the ‘pTron Musicbot Cube App’ for smartphones can also be used to control the smart speaker, remotely. This helps to create a huge diversity of control.
Paired along with them are the inbuilt physical buttons for the smart speaker. Including mute, Bluetooth pairing, volume rockers, and power button on its surface, the primitive tasks for the speakers can be done without much hassle.
Productive battery life: Housing a 2600 maH battery capacity, the speaker can have a 6hrs working time and a 12 hrs standby time. This, pertaining to its portability is a really productive battery life for the smart speaker.
The iconic carom diced shape smart speaker by Amazon takes the next spot for our best smart speakers to buy. Priced at around 1600 INR, this sale if you are the type of person, who doesn’t like to shuffle things much; then it’s the perfect speaker for you.
Cheaper than the Echo Dot (4th Generation), this speaker has everything you want from a smart speaker, like:
No Batteries, No Worries: Overcharging is the issue that does not make batteries and static things go hand in hand. So, if your device isn’t supposed to move then just remove the battery, which is exactly what the Echo Dot (3rd Generation) did.
To operate the Amazon Echo Dot(3rd Generation), you just need to plug and setup, simple as that.
Better microphone: Including the features of Echo Dot (portable), you also have a better microphone quality, which can hear you across the room without any hitch.
The Echo Dot (3rd Generation) has four of the far fielded microphone, which assists in getting farfetched sound easily.
Paying bills with your voice: Now this is where your bucks are utilized fruitfully. Amazon Pay Balance is a UPI (Unified Payment Interface) type payment system made to step up the payment game by Amazon.
Now being a UPI-based system means, any type of payment method is accepted with easy overlays to other sites. And integrating it into Echo Dot(3rd Generation) means you can easily pay your utility bills and Amazon orders with the help of your voice. That’s extraordinary.
A fresh new entry from Zebronics in the smart speaker market. Priced at around 3,499 INR Now you might be wondering “Why is Zebronics in a market which is saturated by some big competitors?” Well let me tell you why:
IR controls: First, let’s address what made Zebronics different from the traditional competitors. The Zeb Home App comes with listed Infra-Red enabled devices that can be used to control the smart speaker. This allows people with less geek towards smartphones to control the smart speaker easily.
Physical controls: Of course, everyone likes the comfort of physical buttons. The accessibility and convenience of using them without any pairing requirements are just, amazing.
The Zeb-Smart Bot smart speaker is no exception to this feature, bringing convenience one step ahead.
Dual microphones: Being a smart speaker, requires having the prerequisite of having a listening ability. That’s where the Dual Far Field Mics comes as a handy feature for listening to commands. It ensures, that each and every command registered from your mouth to speaker, gets registered properly.
The Echo Dot (4th Generation) offers a bang for the buck for at only 2300 INR this sale that offers more than just some design changes:
Design: Let’s address the elephant in the room, the new circular design is just WOW. The ball-shaped design not only looks better than the previous carom-shaped design but also looks like a device of the present.
The new design did not compromise the feasibility of physical controls. The top placed buttons on the echo dot (4th generation) not only are easily visible to the eyes but also make the design bloom more.
Improvement on sounds: Remember when I told you that there is more than just design for the bucks? Here it is. The microphone features an AZ1 Neural Edge Processor, which allows the microphone to capture the smallest of sounds. In simple terms, it made the microphone sensitive.
The speaker on the Echo Dot(4th Generation) features a new enhanced 1.6-inch speaker, which sounds way better than the previous Echo Dot Generations.
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