Review: Amazon Echo 2 is still number one

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 t