Amazon Echo Show 8 (2nd Gen) review: A worthy mid-range smart display

If you've decided that Alexa is the digital assistant you want in your home, the Echo Show 8 is an excellent mid-range smart display. If you've settled on Google Assistant instead and deployed a lot of those speakers, there's probably nothing here that would make starting over a worthwhile endeavor. The Echo Show 8 has a bright, vibrant 8-inch touchscreen display with moderate resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and very good off-axis viewing angles; a pair of 2.0-inch built-in speakers, plus a passive radiator, that deliver pleasing background music; and a 13-megapixel, wide-angle camera that digitally pans and zooms to keep you in the frame when making video calls. It's a worthy successor to the first-gen Echo Show 8, and enough of a step up to warrant ditching the one you already have--especially if you want to move the first-gen model into another room. And if you're using Echo devices to control your smart home, it's almost impossible to have too many of them around the house.