The Echo Show 5 is on sale at Amazon for £59.99

Keep in touch with family and friends: Make video calls with the Echo Show 5 now on sale at Amazon for £59.99 – that’s 25 per cent off

If you’re looking to get your hands on one of Amazon’s best Echo smart speakers, the wildly-popular Amazon Echo Show 5, which features a 5.5-inch screen, is a great addition to any home.

And lucky for you, you can get the bestselling mini smart home display on sale on Amazon right now. For a limited time, you can score an Echo Show 5 for 25 per cent off, bringing it down to £59.99.

The popular gadget has earned a perfect five-star rating from more than 67,000 reviewers, who’ve hailed it as a ‘great device’ and a ‘lovely piece of kit’. As a result, it’s one of the sites most popular products, and for a good reason.

Users love how easy the gadget is to use to keep in touch with family and friends during lockdown

For a limited time, you can score an Echo Show 5 for 25 per cent off, bringing it down to £59.99

The Echo Show 5 is a neat and compact smart-home display with Alexa built-in that’s perfectly sized for a bedside table or kitchen countertop.

You can use your Echo Show 5 to make video calls via Skype and Zoom, stream videos with Prime Video and it can even be used as a digital photo frame and alarm clock when it’s not in use.

On top of these features, you can get visual updates on the weather, latest news, events, and more. And the Echo Show 5 can be used to control connected smart devices too.

Users highly rate the timer function and love how easy the gadget is to use to keep in touch with family and friends during lockdown via video calls. 

‘Great little device!’, one shopper wrote in their five-star review. ‘Bought as an alarm clock in bedroom and we love it so much we bought one for the kitchen too!

The neat and compact smart home device can also be used as a digital photo frame and alarm clock when it's not in use

The neat and compact smart home device can also be used as a digital photo frame and alarm clock when it’s not in use

‘Sounds quality is surprisingly good, and I love being able to watch music videos and see song lyrics while music is on. I like being able to control the heating and lights from it too. Just love it!’

‘During Lockdown it has been ideal to keep in touch as one branch of the family lives some distance away’, another shopper writes. ‘Enables us to enhance our weekly chats by being able to see each other.’

And if you’re a keen cook or budding chef, you can use the Echo Show 5 with the help of Alexa to follow recipes and set timers to ensure your meals are cooked to perfection.

You can pop the Echo Show 5 on your kitchen countertop and with the help of Alexa follow recipes and set timers

You can pop the Echo Show 5 on your kitchen countertop and with the help of Alexa follow recipes and set timers

One wrote: ‘I watched a video on how to cook a Beef Wellington and made it for dinner as well as kept myself entertained with Music, Prime Video and called my sister via Alexa too.

‘I’m so please with this; I’m going to buy it for my parents, to keep Alexa calling them during COVID restrictions.’

‘My Echo Show 5 is in the kitchen’; another chimed in. ‘I like being able to ‘drop-in’ hands-free on my daughter so that we can carry on with what we are doing and talk at the same time. I am finding the timer and alarm settings very useful, and have also asked for recipe ideas.’

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