After first launching in 2014, Echo might have been the device that kicked off the digital assistant craze. Many had come before, many more came after, but Alexa — Amazon’s smart assistant — was the first to offer true utility. Smartphone assistants, remember, were little more than a novelty at the time. Three years later, we now have the long-awaited update to the original. And after playing with mine for about two weeks, I’m conflicted. There’s a lot to love in the new device. It’s smaller, for one, standing just under 15cm (almost 6 inches) tall. The original, at 23.5cm…
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