The Echo Dot is a smaller, chubbier speaker that has a fabric cover in three colors. The sound quality is much better than the old Echo Dot, and it can be changed to have a different sound if you buy it. The old Echo Dot was terrible for Alexa’s voice, but music was extremely tinny. The new Echo Dot at least has some bass and a rounder midrange.
The Philips Hue Bluetooth White and Color Ambiance is the first Hue bulb to come with a Bluetooth radio, which means you can control it without connecting it to a Hue Bridge. It has its own app that lets you turn it on and off, dim it, and change the color and color temperature settings. It supports Alexa and Google voice commands.
The Bluetooth model is essentially the same bulb you get in the Hue White and Color Ambiance A19 Starter Kit, but with one big difference: it includes both Bluetooth and Zigbee radios. It’s an A19 LED bulb with a standard E26 screw base, which is also available as a BR30 downlight. The bulb is dimmable and can display 16 million colors and white temperatures from 2000-6500K. It has a light output of 800 lumens, which is approximately equivalent to a 60-watt incandescent bulb. Its estimated lifetime is 25,000 hours or up to 22 years.
