The Echo Dot has been reduced from £39.99 to just £21.99 thanks to this Amazon deal

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Amazon has continued to drop incredible deals in their New Year sale, and if you’re looking to upgrade your smart home, we’ve found Amazon device deals you won’t want to miss.

Today the Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen) is now 45 per cent off, so you can score the hockey puck-shaped smart speaker for just £21.99 (typically £39.99).

This isn’t the only Amazon Echo device on sale right now, as the retailer has slashed the Echo Dot (4th Gen) price by 40 per cent to just £29.99. And the Echo Dot (4th generation) Kids with parental controls can be yours for just £39.99.

  The Echo devices are the retailer’s most popular smart home device, having amassed over half a million five-star reviews combined

The Echo devices are the retailer’s most popular smart home device, having amassed over half a million five-star reviews combined. Shoppers call the Echo Dot ‘brilliant’, ‘so much more than a speaker’ and ‘the best smart assistant’.

Placed in any room in your home, you can ask for music news, weather updates, and more with a simple voice command.

But the smart home control is what makes the Echo Dot so great. With help from Alexa, you can control compatible appliances and devices with a simple voice command, including robot vacuum cleaners, home security, lights and heating.

‘Amazing personal assistant,’ one five-star reviewer wrote. ‘I have HIVE heating and lightbulbs and Alexa connected to them effortlessly, and it’s so easy to control lights around the house or boost the heating without lifting a finger.

There are also discounts of up to 40 per cent off Echo Show devices , so you can save £40 on the Echo Show 8 (1st Gen, 2019 release) 

They added: ‘Alexa has never misunderstood what I say. I have Prime music also and she will play my playlists for me too! Great range too. I can ask for a timer to be set from the next room.’

There are also discounts of up to 40 per cent off Echo Show devices, so you can save £40 on the Echo Show 8 (1st Gen, 2019 release). The popular device, which features an eight-inch touch screen display and camera, boasts over 67,000 five-star ratings from shoppers who’ve hailed it a ‘great piece of kit’, with ‘excellent’ sound and picture quality.

For more discounted Amazon smart devices, check out the sale online here.