This is going to become your favorite bedside clock with smarts, especially at its new low price

The Amazon Echo Spot is one of the best smart speakers you can buy right now. It’s compact, informative, and packs quite a number of features. At $80, it’s one of those things you might not instantly pop into your cart. But at its newly discounted price that takes 44% off, it certainly becomes a more alluring piece of hardware that you can add to your home.

What’s great about the Amazon Echo Spot?

Amazon hit it out of the park with this smart speaker, with a design that’s simple and sleek. The face is made up of two parts, with the 2.83-inch screen taking the top half, and the 1.73-inch speaker taking up the bottom section. While these aren’t the largest screens or speakers you’ll find on a smart speaker, they get the job done.

The screen shows off all the information you need, and the sound is pretty good for this speaker’s size. And since this is a smart speaker, you’re going to be able to control other smart home devices from it. For the most part, it’s a pretty zippy unit thanks to its hardware, with responses coming back relatively quickly.

The one thing to note is that the Echo Spot doesn’t have a camera, which can be a good and bad thing. You won’t be able to use this thing to make video calls, but you also don’t have to worry too much about privacy concerns either — considering it also has a physical switch that can disable the microphone.

Of course, if you don’t really care about all of that, the Echo Spot does work well as an elevated bedside clock. You can check the time, set an alarm, and just have it play music. You can also get a run-down of the day’s weather too. For the most part, not a bad piece of hardware for $45.