Amazon is discontinuing my favorite Echo — the one with a dot-matrix clock

Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I have six Amazon Echo smart speakers in my house, and I’ve tested more, but my favorite is the Echo Dot with Clock. I love how the fabric-covered LED dot matrix display makes time unobtrusively accessible, beaming its gentle white light from my dresser across my blackout-curtained dark bedroom. (It definitely beats asking Alexa the time.)
So I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news: Amazon has discontinued the Dot with Clock in favor of a m