Description
Amazon Echo Show 8 (2nd Generation) (Charcoal) Alexa can show you even more – 8” HD touchscreen, adaptive color, and stereo speakers bring entertainment to life. Make video calls with a 13 MP camera that uses auto-framing to keep you centered.
Stay in frame – Make video calls with a new camera that frames and centers automatically. Simply ask Alexa to call your contacts.
Make life easier at home – Glance at your calendars and reminders. Get daily recipe ideas and cook along hands-free with step-by-step instructions. Use your voice to set timers, update lists, and see news or traffic updates.
Manage your smart home – Look in when you’re away with the built-in camera. Control compatible devices like cameras, lights, and more using the interactive display, your voice, or your motion.
Be entertained – Enjoy TV shows and movies in HD and stereo with Prime Video, Netflix, and more. Or ask Alexa to stream Amazon Music, Apple Music, or Spotify.
Put your memories on display – Use Amazon Photos to turn your home screen into a digital frame. Adaptive color helps your favorite photos look great in any light.
Designed to protect your privacy – Amazon is not in the business of selling your personal information to others. Built with multiple layers of privacy controls including a mic/camera off button and a built-in camera shutter.
Kelly ross –
I bought an Annke video doorbell originally as the Annke CCTV I have is faultless. Disappointing, sent it back – ’nuff said. Having seen the excellent reviews for the Tapo TD21 on Gadget Tree and YouTube, I decided to order it. Where do I start? First and foremost, it’s super easy to set up. The still images and video quality are razor sharp and the viewing angle (fully adjustable), is wider than most. And, unlike a lot of other video doorbells out there, you don’t have to take out a subscription to access all the fully customisable features, they come as standard. Yes, you can opt to take out a subscription, but I chose to install a micro SD card instead, which captures events perfectly. Detection-wise you can set it to any combination of motion, person, pet and vehicle. Battery life is pretty impressive, too. Since fully charging it and installing it some several weeks back, it’s at 87% and that’s after having a good play about with it, tweaking all the settings. An excellent mid-entry video doorbell from Tapo range and reasonably priced – great functionality and, of course, peace of mind. Best of all the Gadget Tree delivery drivers use it! If If I had a gripe, it would be it’s not available in black. All in all a neat video doorbell – thoroughly recommended. 35 people found this helpful
sharon fisher –
January 2025 Colour Name: Charcoal Configuration: Device Only Really good sound quality, nice size screen, easy to install. 3 people found this helpful
Merdeen –
I bought this specifically to display Live View for my Ring doorbell. With a little help from a YouTube video I linked Alexa to Ring and the thing works like a dream: when the doorbell is pressed, I get a full screen view of who is in front of the camera. On my setup, it happens within a couple of seconds. I have shuttered the camera on the Show for privacy, and I have switched off the microphone for the same reason. It’s easy to turn the microphone on with a switch at the top if I want to use the Alexa feature. That seems to work too but I doubt I will use it that often. The sound quality is very good so asking Alexa to play music might be a future use for me. Overall, I am very happy so far. Oh, I also bought one of the stands for it. Again, that works well. 35 people found this helpful
striesoko (verified owner) –
I bought a Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro (for £399) in September 2019. It’s been faultless. The ultra-fast processor is exactly the same (ie the same part) as the contemporary top of the range Samsung, its main camera takes superb photos and the only reason I decided to replace it with the 14T Pro was its storage (128GB) was nearly full and I didn’t want to either delete a load of photos and videos or remove them to another storage device or cloud. Sadly Xiaomi don’t allow you to use a removable SD card, so you’re stuck with whatever on-board storage the phone comes with. As the 14T Pro has 516GB and it’s taken me five years to fill 128GB on the old phone, I decided it looked a good bet. And at the time (November 2024), Gadget Tree were also offering it with 12 months of interest-free credit, so although it was £599, it wasn’t going to destroy the wallet just before Christmas. And certainly, it’s a fantastic device. The on-board software transferred everything possible, including all my photos and videos, from the old phone to the new one (it helped to leave it right by my WiFi router to speed it up), it takes great photos, it’s intuitive to use and the processor is ultra fast. When you’re setting it up, you’ll be asked to approve a load of things (eg with the ‘Cleaner’) with a single click. Don’t. You need to expand on this and laboriously go through every single ‘please spy on me’ button, from dozens of companies you’ve never heard of, and turn them off. Luckily, you’ll only have to do this once. It comes with a charging cable but no charger and a plastic flexible case. As the camera lenses stick out from the back, the phone is more bulky than my old one and consequently feels a bit less ‘premium’ in the hand. It weighs about 240g with the case and sim card fitted, which is only about 4 grammes more than my old one. There’s a load of unneccessary apps on the phone you will probably want to delete, but it’s easy enough to do. I can’t tell you about the wireless charging because I don’t have the charger, I haven’t tried any of the fingerprint recognition stuff and the battery life so far (after seven weeks) has been excellent. I’ve yet to get it down below 50% in a day, even after spending far too much time on it. So why only three stars? Very simply, if you haven’t had a top-of-the-mid-range phone before, you’re going to be absolutely blown away with this. Buy one, you won’t regret it, it’s five stars all the way for you. But if you already have something like my Mi 9T Pro, you’re really not going to notice much difference, if any. It is 5G and has AI features of course, if they matter to you. They don’t to me. I wonder if smartphones have reached a temporary plateau in terms of technological development? This is a great phone, but it’s really not noticeably better to me than the one it’s replacing. To sum up, if you’ve already got an earlier higher end Xiaomi, unless, like me, you’ve run out of storage space on it, you need to decide if it’s worth buying one of these as although it’s a great phone, your old one will be just as good in almost every respect. I hope this is helpful to you and I’d appreciate a click of the button if so. Thank you. 63 people found this helpful
Rainio (verified owner) –
Lovely addition to our kitchen. Display screen and sound are both awesome. Very easy to set up all except for connecting it to ring doorbell. It keeps coming up with an error message when in the app. I have tried sooo many times! If anything one would like to offer help, I would very much appreciate it
One person found this helpful
G.I. Jayne (verified owner) –
February 2025 Colour Name: Charcoal Configuration: Device Only Great product. Used daily. Great sound and easy to control by voice.