Amazon rolls out new ball-shaped Echo Dots, starting at $50

Image: Amazon Amazon has revealed is newest iteration on the Echo Dot, once a puck-shaped companion to the larger Echo smart speaker line and now a spherical smart speaker. The announcement was made during Amazon’s annual Alexa-themed hardware event live-streamed on Thursday afternoon. The new look matches that of the new fourth-generation standard Echo, also announced today.This is technically also the fourth-generation Dot and not the fifth, as last year’s minor iteration added on