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As Cheapskate Rick and I just mentioned in this week’s episode of the Cheapskate Show podcast, you should never buy a full-priced Amazon Echo speaker. They go on sale so often that it never takes more than a few weeks to get a discount. Case in point: This week, you can get a Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition and an Echo Glow smart lamp bundled for $ 60. They sell regularly for $ 100, so you’re saving 40%, and it’s only $ 10 more than the lowest price for this combination.
The Echo Dot Kids Edition is more or less a third edition of the Echo Dot the size of a disk, but it is designed with the little ones in mind. Includes a year of FreeTime Unlimited, for example, a subscription service that offers Alexa features just for kids, along with parental controls for mom and dad.
You also get the adorable Echo Glow, a smart light that you can use for ambient lighting or a child’s room nightlight, and the Glow can interact with common Alexa tasks, like changing the lighting during a timer countdown.
However, Echo Dot Kids Edition wouldn’t be a smart speaker if there weren’t any privacy issues, and Amazon has already come under scrutiny by children’s advocacy groups on how the first-generation speaker handled user privacy. You can read more about that at CNET’s look at the Echo Dot Kids Edition.
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