Amazon Echo Hub Review: Bare-Bones Smart Display

I've been testing and writing about smart displays since they first launched, a screen slapped onto the ever-growing world of smart speakers. Since the introduction of the massive Echo Show in 2017, Amazon's displays have consistently felt a little bulky and overstuffed, trying to be too many things at once, with design taking more of a backseat. Instead of a classic smart display with a large speaker, it's a wall-mounted display designed for controlling your smart home. The design is reminiscent of a home security system panel or a control panel for a custom smart-home system like Control4--but also looks unsurprisingly similar to an Echo Show, just without the speaker backing. The speaker isn't the only feature chopped off from the Echo Hub.