My favorite Amazon Echo speaker is perfect for small rooms, and it's only $22 with this deal

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The Echo Pop is Amazon's astir compact mainstream speaker. It comes successful 4 colors and has Alexa built in. Thanks to this summer's Prime Day sale, which kicks disconnected connected July 8, the Echo Pop is disposable for a constricted clip for $22 connected Amazon, a 45% discount from its regular $40 price.

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This isn't the lowest terms I've seen the Echo Pop merchantability for. It sold for $18 during Black Friday, conscionable a fewer dollars less, but this connection is the champion terms I've seen connected the compact talker successful a fewer months. 

Amazon created the Echo Pop for those who don't privation to perpetrate to a full-size astute speaker, privation a sleeker, much compact look than the spherical Echo Dot, oregon privation a much affordable astute speaker. The Echo Pop is Amazon's tiniest astute speaker, cleanable for a tiny room. Because it doesn't diagnostic a surface and tin spell unnoticed, it's a elemental mode to present yourself to the Alexa ecosystem oregon springiness idiosyncratic entree to Amazon's dependable adjunct successful a elemental way. 

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The Echo Pop is amazingly loud, but the dependable prime decreases importantly erstwhile the measurement increases. This is wherefore the Echo Pop is meant for smaller rooms and is overmuch little costly than different Echo devices.  At conscionable implicit fractional the size of an Echo Dot, the Echo Pop doesn't disappoint; it's nary Sonos talker but packs a mean punch successful a tiny package.

The Echo Pop (left) adjacent to the Echo Dot (right). 

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Still, it's fantabulous for listening to euphony informally erstwhile hanging retired successful your room, catching up connected your favourite podcasts, and listening to audiobooks. Having Alexa built-in makes it much enticing, arsenic you tin usage the AI-powered dependable adjunct to power astute devices astir your home.

The Echo Pop tin capable a tiny country with sound, making it an fantabulous acceptable for a assemblage dorm country oregon for listening to audiobooks portion relaxing astatine home. At $18, it's surely worthy the purchase.

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How I rated this deal 

This isn't the lowest terms I've seen the Echo Pop merchantability for. During Black Friday, it sold for $18, conscionable a fewer dollars less, but this $22 (47% off) connection is the champion terms I've seen connected the compact talker successful a fewer months. Still, since it isn't the lowest terms I've seen offered, I bumped this woody down to a 4/5 Editor's woody rating.