At Amazon's recent hardware event there were 70 announcements, which is where we first saw the new Echo Show. It's over a year since the original dropped and Amazon is sticking with the $229 price.

If you own the first-gen Echo Show 8, which has a much lower resolution camera and no auto-centering functionality, then yes. For the second-generation Echo Show 8, it’s a tougher call.

When we reviewed it back in 2019, we though the first-generation Amazon Echo Show 8 hit the smart display sweet spot: the screen was not too big, nor too small; the speaker sounded surprisingly ...