Latest about Smart Home Hubs
Echo Show 8 (4th gen, 2025) review: Amazon’s smaller smart displays get a much-needed refit
I tried Amazon’s new fourth-generation Echo Show 8, and there’s a lot to love with this redesign. Unfortunately, it comes at the cost of one much-needed privacy feature.
Echo Show 11 review: a new, bigger screen size but less for the privacy-conscious
Goodbye Echo Show 10, hello Echo Show 11
Echo Dot Max review: Amazon’s best mid-range speaker, but not by much
It’s Alexa+ ready, but is Alexa+ ready?
Google is slowly phasing out its Assistant helper to make room for Gemini's reign in smartphones - here’s how it’s doing the same for smart home devices
Google has announced that Gemini will replace Google Assistant, but not just for smartphones. This is how Google has started its Gemini roll out to smart speakers.
Switchbot has totally redesigned its smart home hub – and it's great news for renters
The new hub has a physical dial, and I can't wait to get my hands on it.
The Echo Show 15 (2024) review: Half Fire TV, half smart home hub, but it fails to excel at either
The Amazon Echo Show 15 (2024) sees moderate upgrades to the original, 2017 version, but still can't decide if it wants to be a TV or a smart display.
The Amazon Echo Show 21 is big, beautiful, and deserves a place on your wall
It won't replace your smart TV for serious movie-watching, but it's not intended to.
What is Samsung's ambient sensing? Unpacking the new SmartThings AI features
While it wasn't a huge reveal, Samsung's SmartThings announced some new AI tools that are coming to its smart home ecosystem and Home AI, including ambient sensing.
