Amazon Echo Pop Review (2023): Fun To Look At

Its newest player has arrived: the Echo Pop, a $40 smart speaker with a half-circle body instead of the fully rounded forms of Amazon's other Echo speakers. I've been enjoying the Echo Pop as a small desk companion. Its sound is fine enough for its price--though other, similarly priced Amazon speakers will be a better music experience--but the biggest appeal of the Echo Pop is easily the fun colors and interesting form factor it has. When it's next to the Echo Dot (5th Gen), the Echo Pop looks to be the same size--that is, if you're looking head-on at the Pop's flat, circular face. But when you take a look at the Echo Pop from the side, you can see it's only about two-thirds as deep. Where you really can see the size difference is on the bottom.