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Love your Amazon Alexa Echo Dot 4th Gen but really wish you could carry it around in the house and onto your porch or into the garage? You can with the slick and incredibly well-designed Mission Accessories Battery Base designed specifically for the 4th Gen Echo Dot. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ plugs an Echo Dot into the Mission Battery Base and shows how well it all works together in this review video.
Want one for yourself? You can get 'em on Amazon:
White unit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NVSSD4F/
Black unit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NVRPQNH/
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Battery bases for the fourth gen Echo Dot
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Let's check these out. Dave Taylor here with my Amazon Echo Dot, fourth gen
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You can tell us the fourth gen because it looks like a softball, right? It's about the same size as a softball, too, but I'm completely confident you wouldn't want to see what happens when you hit it with a baseball bat
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instead you want to hook it up to your Wi-Fi and you want to be able to enjoy it as another smart
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speaker and device in your home which works great except if I don't have this plugged into power
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it is basically a doorstop it is basically like having a softball and talking to it it's not very
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effective enter these this is the white and the black version of the mission echo dot fourth
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gen battery base and they're pretty sweet they feature a 2,000 mill amp hour battery which gives you
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four to five hours of battery only playback and it's also a really stable base so let me just show you
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I have this I'm going to unplug it and then you put the echo into the base and all you have to do is
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line up the holes in the back you can see in this close up what I'm talking about and then they have a
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little power jumper cable that you just plug in from from the bottom to the top, and now we should see there
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See, it's already starting to power up because now it has power even though I'm not plugged in
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Then I plug in the other half of the base and now we have a really nice, stable and attractive base
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for this fourth echo dot but of course it also means that I now have the ability to use it away from power Now all of these still require Wi So you still going to have to figure out a Wi connection
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You can't take this off into the mountains and have it worked. It just didn't really work that way
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But if you want to carry it into your garage, you want to put it on the back patio
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you want to take it pool side, you are good to go. And I will unplug it, and it will continue to be alive
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And let's just see if it's working. Alexa, what's the weather outside
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Right now in Boulder. Alexa, stop. So really cool. And this is completely self-contained
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As you can see, there's no wires. Now, it does add a little bit of weight because, of course, there's a fairly hefty battery in here
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But it's totally worth it. And it also gives you a nice, stable base and lifts up the unit
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So you get a little bit more of the good sound and have it look really
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nice and my daughter has her echo dot in one of the bases and she just has that right by her computer
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and works great. Now, they've also thought through the fact that you're going to probably have it
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plugged in a lot of the time. So they use a smart charging system and technology so that you can
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leave her unit plugged in basically 24-7 and it won't completely kill the battery. So I plug it in
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and now on the back there are two indicator lights. This light is showing me that it's on and has power
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and then the light on the other side is showing me that it's charging. Now, one criticism I have is I would like to have a set of LEDs
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that would show me how charged the unit is. Their larger unit for the big echo actually has a series of LEDs on the front This one doesn Kind of disappointing but that really my only criticism Otherwise super easy And one of the other things I really like is because of the way they designed the little power jumper
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that means you still have easy access to your AUX port, so you can plug this into bigger or nicer speakers or stereo or whatever you want
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I actually have one of my fourth-gen echo dots plugged into a couple of thousand dollar worth of speakers, and it sounds fantastic
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because of course then it's like I've added a voice interface to the speakers themselves
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which gives me great music all the time. Pretty nice. Now, two colors. Let me just tell you the size
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It's about four and a half inches all around, and it's 12 ounces, so it's not terribly weighty
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But when you put the two together, you will definitely notice the weight
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White or black, obviously the dot comes in more colors than that. I think that's totally fine
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worth pointing out that this is the packaging for the echo dot fourth gen
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You can see the colors and fonts and everything. And then Lowe, because this is an Amazon approved product and actually part of their ecosystem
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then Mission also is able to use the exact same colors and package design
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which I think is actually really fun. You would swear they're from the same company, but they're not
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Now, if you have a different type of Echo, Mission also makes units
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for the Echo 4, the Echo 3rd gen, and the Echo 2
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Same idea, same battery base. I've used them with other devices too
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And basically, it lets you have a battery powered, always listening device, which is way more cool
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than the one echo that Amazon came out with that required the push to listen We had one of those It was not popular because people want to just talk to these things They don want to have to constantly be pushing If you doing that you might as well just use your phone instead and then you sort of lose the value and benefit of
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the unit in the first place. So, it's a really great solution. I'm a fan. Now, only thing let's
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talk about is the price, but before we get to the price, I'm going to ask for some feedback. Give me a thumbs up if you found this valuable. Go ahead and leave a comment if there's something
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that you would like to have known about this or wish that I had shown you a close-up of the underneath
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or cut it in half with a chainsaw, whatever. I'm not going to cut it in half with a chainsaw
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just so you know. And go ahead and subscribe if you're so inspired. I really appreciate when
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people subscribe to my channel. Cool. Now, both of these are the mission echo dot fourth-gen
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battery base comes in black or white and the echo dot itself is not included but everything else is and it's
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2999 at amazon dot com solid price definitely a great addition to the echo dot fourth gen feature set
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and for me i really like being able to just unplug this and take this wherever i want my daughter
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takes it into the shower or into the bathroom with her so she can listen to music while she's
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It's exactly what this is for. So definitely one worth checking out if you're an Amazon Alexa Echo fan
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And with that, I'll catch you in my next video
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