Smart Displays: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

The top smart displays we've tested can serve as an advanced alarm clock, a helpful kitchen companion, or a convenient desk-side dashboard.

The Amazon Echo Hub is a sleek smart home hub that makes it easy to control connected lights, locks, and other devices by touch or voice.

Amazon's Echo Show 5 is one of the best small smart displays available, and we like this version's more powerful speakers and improved voice response. Just know that the larger Echo Show 8 is a more well-rounded offering.

With a Fire TV interface, Alexa voice control, and a camera for video calls and home monitoring, the Echo Show 21 is Amazon's largest smart display and all-in-one home hub.

The second generation of Amazon's Echo Show 15 smart display costs a bit more than its predecessor, but camera improvements help justify the higher price.

Best suited to large rooms, Amazon's Echo Show 11 smart display combines excellent sound quality, a large screen, and the conversational smarts of Alexa+ for easy voice control.

The fourth-generation Echo Show 8 has upgraded speakers for richer sound and a faster processor for more seamless and natural voice interactions with Alexa+, making it Amazon's best smart display for most households.

Do-it-all countertop screens are deceptively simple, but highly convenient. Here's how our reviews help you determine the best smart display for your money.

The Echo Show Kids is a solid smart display for your little ones at $35 off today. It's a must-have for any connected home and one of the best small smart displays out there.

A color E Ink screen helps make the Aura Ink a wireless digital picture frame you can place anywhere for months between charges, but its picture quality falls short.

If you're looking for a smart display, the Amazon Echo Show 5 has you covered. You can get it now for 39% off in today's sale at Target.

The new smart speakers and smart displays promise to 'enable smarter, more personalized, and proactive Alexa+ experiences,' Amazon says. They start at $99.99 for the Echo Dot Max.

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The Aura Aspen is a gorgeous 12-inch digital picture frame that makes photos pop and is easy to set up for yourself or as a gift.

Amazon's newest Echo Show 21 comes with a bigger screen, better sound, and an improved camera for video calls for $400.

Goodbye photos, hello ads. Amazon is getting rid of its PhotosPlus service after less than a year on the market, turning the pricier smart display into a standard Echo Show 8.

Amazon's screen-equipped Echo Show devices have a whole range of functions that their audio-only counterparts don't, and there's a good chance you're not using all of them.

The Skylight Frame offers relatively unique features like local storage and touch-based controls, but its screen doesn't look as good as some competing digital picture frames.

The Aura Mason is an attractive digital photo frame with a sharp display and a simple setup process that lets you preload photos for gifting.

The third-generation Amazon Echo Show 8 remains the best Alexa smart display for most homes thanks to software-based audio enhancements and other subtle upgrades.