Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen) $44 + Delivery (Free with Prime) @ Amazon AU

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I think the previous cheapest this has been is $59. Looks like free delivery if your order is over $49, I have Prime so I don't know how much delivery costs if you just want to grab the Dot.

2 for $79 deal is still ongoing.

Amazon product description:

• Echo Dot is our most popular voice-controlled speaker, now with improved sound and a new design.
• Ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, find recipes, read the news, check the weather, set alarms, control compatible smart home devices and more.
• Stream songs from Amazon Music, Spotify, TuneIn and others through the built-in speaker with a fuller sound. Services may require subscriptions or other fees.
• Instantly drop in on other rooms in your home or make an announcement to every room with an Echo. Make calls and send messages between supported Echo devices and the Alexa App.
• Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new features and skills, like Fitbit for tracking your fitness, NextThere for planning your commute, Sleep and Relaxation sounds for better sleep, and fun games for the family.
• With 4 far-field microphones, Alexa can hear you from across the room. And with compatible Echo devices in different rooms, you can fill your whole home with music.
• You can also connect to your own speakers over Bluetooth or with a 3.5 mm audio cable.
• Use your voice to turn on lights, adjust thermostats, control your TV and more, with compatible connected smart home devices.

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  jv on 02/05/2019 - 01:16

  Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen) $44

  Google Home mini for $3.60 is better value…

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    Franckel on 02/05/2019 - 01:51

    +1

    Haha yeah, I grabbed one of those as well, but the Echo Dot is a lot more useful to me because I can connect it to existing speakers via the 3.5mm jack.

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    teacherer on 02/05/2019 - 06:57

    Where is it $3.60? Not Spotify?

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      jv on 02/05/2019 - 09:54

      see below.

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    denwol on 02/05/2019 - 07:02

    Can you link me to the instructions for $3.60 please?

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      alvian on 02/05/2019 - 07:16

      +1

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/7198802/redir

      But the competition is now closed so the $3.60 GHM is no longer available.

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        cerealz on 02/05/2019 - 09:13

        Oh wow that's amazing haha

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  Brausmith on 02/05/2019 - 06:32

  Same price at JB Hi-fi. I wonder if other retailers will follow.

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  WeiKaiLe on 02/05/2019 - 07:13

  I got two of these recently for $79 from Amazon and I found that it has real problems with Spotify, it will play 3-4 songs in a playlist and then stop and you have to ask Alexa to resume playing again. Is anyone else having that trouble or know of the solution?

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    alvian on 02/05/2019 - 07:18

    Use the Spotify app to manage and stream the playlist to the Echo device.

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      jv on 02/05/2019 - 09:55

      They kind of defeats the purpose of having an assistant do it for you… Might as well just stream to a bluetooth speaker.

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        alvian on 02/05/2019 - 10:11

        1. Audio quality of Wi-Fi streaming > audio quality of Bluetooth streaming.
        2. This is a solution to a specific problem. I don't know if this is the optimal solution. Whether or not this solution is acceptable to WeiKaiLe is up to him to decide.
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          WeiKaiLe on 02/05/2019 - 13:09

          @alvian: Thanks Alvian for your reply. I believe you're referring to the "Spotify Connect" option, where you ask Alexa to enable "Spotify Connect" and the Echo Dot appears as a device you can select within Spotify on your phone.

          I haven't tested how that works with beyond checking that it worked to connect and start playing for non-linked accounts, so I'll have a look at that for the linked account. I did notice that if I started the stream from the echo and then chose songs, changed the music on my phone that this wouldn't alleviate the problem and it would still stop.

          It is certainly a negative for its usefulness for my parents, who I got the echo dots for, as they are technology illiterate and were so happy they could talk to it to start listening, even if getting the command right was a struggle for them.

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    asa79 on 02/05/2019 - 09:03

    is that the dot or spotify or your internet?

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      WeiKaiLe on 02/05/2019 - 13:11

      asa79 - I did find other people suffering this same problem but there was no solution on the pages I had found. It does appear to be a problem with Alexa/Echos and how it interacts with Spotify rather than the internet connection. For example, internet radio through TuneIn works flawlessly.

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  chromium on 02/05/2019 - 14:44

  Can't play Google Play Music from this?

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    asa79 on 02/05/2019 - 16:46

    Nope

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      chromium on 02/05/2019 - 19:53

      Damn, I like using my Google Home Mini for playing music, but the speaker quality isn't great. Would be awesome to be able to connect to some decent speakers via Bluetooth or 3.5 mm cable. I believe the Echo Dot does this, but no Google Play Music is a deal breaker.

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        asa79 on 02/05/2019 - 20:35

        google home has bluetooth to bluetooth speaker

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          chromium on 02/05/2019 - 20:40

          @asa79: Oh so it does. It didn't when I got mine in 2017. I only recently started using it again. Bluetooth is cool, but 3.5mm jack would be better :)

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  vankoko on 22/05/2019 - 12:13

  Back to $79 a pop.