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Amazon's releasing another Echo (we've lost count of how many new ones there are now) this year. The Echo Input Portable Speaker Edition is a battery-powered Bluetooth speaker that lets you bring ...

At its heart, the Echo Input Portable has more in common with an Echo Dot than the Echo Input. While the latter is designed to add Alexa smarts to your existing speaker system, the Echo Input Portable ...

With Chromecast Audio on the way out, your next best bet for turning your old and dumb speaker into a smarter tune box is Amazon’s Echo Input. Introduced back in September, the Echo Input in either ...

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Amazon discounts its Echo lineup every so often, and now ...