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Kid-friendly Alexa and Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited is a hoot on the Echo Dot Kids Edition, with age-appropriate answers, skills, music and audiobooks, plus solid controls to empower good parenting.

The new Echo Plus is a huge upgrade from its predecessor, with great audio quality and a convenient built-in smart-home hub.

While still a bit confused about what it wants to be, the second Echo Show is a huge improvement over the first.

With a nicer design and vastly improved audio, the third-generation Echo Dot is Amazon's best, cheapest speaker yet.

The Insignia Fire TV Edition is a solid smart TV, with good picture quality and sound. It's the best Amazon-powered TV yet.

The Amazon Fire TV Cube is an excellent marriage of an Echo speaker and a Fire TV device that's able to control your living room.

This budget smart display has a bit of an identity crisis.

The Kindle Oasis is the best Kindle ever, but wow is it pricey.

Now that it's waterproof, the Kindle Paperwhite is the only e-reader you need to know about.

The Kindle can be a good product, if you're willing to tweak it, but reading under default conditions can be very distracting.

This affordable analog clock can help you keep an eye on your timers — but that's about it.

The Toshiba 55-inch 4K Fire TV Edition (55LF621U19) is the best Amazon-branded smart TV we've seen, but mediocre hardware and over-aggressive advertising still weigh it down.

Amazon's Alexa-powered camera that tells you what to wear is a neat idea, but it's not for everyone.

Amazon's second-gen Echo is more attractive and more affordable than the original, and it sounds just as good, too.

The inexpensive and unobtrusive Echo Input adds Alexa to your home stereo.

The Echo Sub brings the most powerful bass of any Alexa speaker yet — but you're limited with how you can use it.

The all-new Kindle Paperwhite retains the great features of its predecessor, but sports a sharper screen and advanced typesetting that makes reading easier than it ever has been.

By adding a smart-home hub into the Alexa-enabled Echo Plus, Amazon is trying to make the smart home more accessible to the masses.

It's not the most attractive device, but the touch screen and camera in the Amazon Echo Show represent the next generation in smart home voice assistants.

The Amazon Echo Dot is an easy way to update your home stereo system with smart home features.

The Zolo Mojo delivers decent sound for a small speaker but costs nearly twice as much as a Google Home Mini without offering any advantages.

Amazon Key solves a very specific problem for a very specific group of people: Amazon Prime customers who worry enough about stolen packages that they'll allow a delivery person to unlock their front door and drop the parcel off right inside their home.

This smart light has Alexa built in, but you have to really like its circular design to pay this much.

Apple's first smart speaker sounds amazing, but Siri needs to do more to compete with Alexa and Google Assistant.

The UE Megablast sounds great, but it can't do everything an Amazon smart speaker can.

The Amazon All-New Fire TV is a versatile streaming box with excellent Alexa integration and a reasonable price tag, but the design is a head-scratcher.

While the iHome dock adds a clock and somewhat better sound quality to the Echo Dot, it's too expensive for what it offers.

The 43-inch Amazon Fire TV Edition is tempting, but the picture quality from this set doesn't measure up to the advanced, Alexa-centric interface.

The Amazon Echo can stream music, answer questions, control smart home devices and help you shop — and it sounds good, too.