Echo Show 5 (Newest gen) I Smart display and alarm clock with clearer sound I Cloud blue

Well made, good quality for the price as it was on offer at the time. Very easy to set up. Easy to use even for the elderly. Can operate your lights through it too. Good, clear quality image. Good sound quality. Can get in a few different colours for your own decor. Connects easily, although occasionally takes about 10 seconds before it responds or takes action.

Great product. Intuitive to use. Good screen size and excellent sound quality for a small device. Alexa is quite a member of the family now but can't always help with some of our questions. Only negative was the lead time which was surprisingly long.

This review is for the All-new Echo Show 5 (3rd generation) Compact smart touchscreen with Alexa for smart home control and more I White. I have several Alexa devices in the house, some with screens and others without. I must say the one with screens win hands down, they provide so many extra features for a small price difference. I have an echo show 8 and a echo show 5 already. This new device is on par with both the existing ones but has a number of new features. Style: The design and style of the show 5 is more slick with rounded corners. It about the same size as the old show and also similar in weight. I prefer the look of the new one, and in white it looks very sophisticated. The display Amazing, top quality screen that provides excellent clear visuals. It is a touch screen and very easy to use and navigate around the features. Sound A noticeable improvement from the old echo show 5. Clear and deeper bass. Nice vocals. Perfect for a small room / kitchen. Features: Way to many to mention and lots of apps to install. My favourite one is that you can use the camera on this device and access it through your mobile device. Perfect for when on hols and you want to see what’s going on in the house also potential to use as a baby monitor And of course Alexa.. love her. Overall this is a top quality device by amazon, would totally recommend. The price could be a little cheaper if I’m honest but it’s a good solid device that you will likely get a lot of use from. If you are not concerned about the improved sound, you might want to go for the cheaper echo 5 second generation as there is very little difference between the two (small styling, sound and processor upgrade) Perfect for a bedside clock.

We love this. It works well, easy to set up, sounds great and kids love being able to watch things on it too.

Really good it is however a little bit slow at obeying commands apart from that it's great love the surround sound and the YouTube videos and the touchscreen

Bought this as a replacement for my 1st generation Show 5 which had served me very well, but the screen had started to go. First annoying thing is that it needed a new stand, as the stand for the 1st gen wasn't compatible. Am also finding it very slow to respond (and often doesn't react at all) which is not very good. Probably a software thing, but it also doesn't show the time on the screen when playing the radio (the 1st gen did) and also doesn't display half my photos (I use the photo scroll when idle) although still shows the date they were taken in the corner. Some bugs that no one seems able to help with. Sound quality is better than the 1st gen and the screen is clearer to view. Setup is easy for the basics, but if you are replacing an old device, you will need to hunt for some of the settings, many hidden deep in the app.

Only had a few weeks so don’t know the full capabilities, but from what I’ve seen so far it’s excellent and a big improvement on older models. Having the visual touchscreen is a benefit and at less than £50 I thought it was excellent value for money. I have also recently purchased a Tapo doorbell so will be interesting to see the cross functionality once connected to the Echo. I also bought another for a Christmas present for my mother as she thought it was great too, so very much recommend.

Like many other reviewers on here, the newest generation Echo Show 5 seems to be more prone to defects than previous models. It doesn't work well, it is very slow to respond. The screen suffers from burn in. It's hard to set up compared to any of the traditional (no screen) Echo devices. Instead of being able to set stuff up in the app, you have to do it on the little 5" screen. I put mine under the TV so I kept having to go back to it to carry on the setup process. It's not particularly responsive and I wonder if the processor or memory or both have been scaled back for this production run. It's often on special offer but even then you're probably paying £50 for a device that's mostly going to serve adverts. I had mine for a week or two and every single day I had to unplug it and plug it back in as it froze up showing an advert or shopping suggestion (mostly noticed that the clock on the screen was still showing two hours ago). The bright adverts then burn into the screen. I repositioned the device away from the TV and reset it and set it up from scratch and it seemed to be working okay for a few hours then it froze again. If you delve deeply into the menus on the device you can turn off most of the shopping suggestions but it's still going to regularly serve adverts up to you. I don't think £50, the special offer price, is good value for money on a device that really doesn't work very well and is just going to show ads all the time. Apart from the many faults before I eventually gave up and returned it, the speaker is very loud so if you're looking for a smart speaker then the audio quality is fine. It did seem to keep resetting the volume to mega-high though of it's own volition. I doubt Amazon are knowingly shipping a defective line of products, but it does seem that many reviewers on here have had issues with the newest generation when they had no problems with previous releases.