Echo Hub hands-on: a first look at Amazon’s new smart home controller

The new smart home-focused widgets make it easy to interact with to do things like view a camera live view, adjust a light, or run a routine with a tap. These three new widgets can be added to the Home screen: one is specific to the room the device is in, one is for any connected cameras that show an updated live view, and one mirrors the favorites in the Alexa app.

I didn’t get to try this shift from ambient mode to the widgets, as there were always too many people crowded around the thing, but I did try the new adaptive content feature on a nearby Echo Show 8 that has a similar function of showing different content when you are further away from when you are up close, and it adjusted reasonably quickly as I approached.

While it’s clearly designed to be wall-mounted, using it on a tabletop feels like a good alternative, although you have to pay $29.99 for a Sanus stand .

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