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5.0 out of 5 starsNot only for kids, and can be difficult to set up.
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024
It may sound weird, but I wanted an echo dot, but bought this model and the stand (sold separately) purely because I LOVE dragons! This has such better aesthetic than a black ball on a shelf somewhere. You can turn off parental controls. The ability to gauge the room's temperature is also a nice touch for the 5th generation echo dot. I am also quite impressed with the sound quality, it actually has more bass than any portable Bluetooth speaker I've heard. My only complaint is that you NEED to use Amazon's Alexa mobile application to set it up. It seems like such an unnecessary, over-complicated step to require you to install an app to set something up these days. This took me an entire day. Because the Alexa app is not compatible with my mobile device, and no Android emulators are Bluetooth-compatible, I had to repartition the hard drive on my computer and install an Android-based operating system in order to install the Alexa app on that, and only then I was able to set up this echo dot. However, before I could do that, in the process of operating system installation I accidentally corrupted the Master Boot Record on another drive, and had to use a Linux disk-partitioning tool to reapply partition flags and a Windows repair disk with command prompt to fix the master boot record and make Windows bootable again. This is why it took me a whole day to set up this son-of-a-gun. NONE of this would've happened if they just allowed you to set it up in your dang browser! Google Chrome has a Bluetooth connectivity feature that few people know about.