Echo Show 15 vs Echo Show 10: Which is the Echo for you?

(Pocket-lint) - Amazon's latest summation to the Show household is its biggest yet, the Echo Show 15. It trumps the Show 10 with surface inches, but besides takes connected a caller format for the Show.

So which is the astir due exemplary for you? Here's however the Echo Show 15 and Echo Show 10 compare.

Price and availability

• Show 15: $249.99 / £239.99 / €249.99
• Show 10: $249.99 / £239.99 / €249.99

The Echo Show 15 and the Echo Show 10 travel successful astatine the aforesaid terms point. That's going to marque it much hard to determine which to buy, though the Show 10 was launched successful aboriginal 2021, truthful it's been astir for longer and you mightiness beryllium capable to find a amended terms connected it.

The Echo Show 15 was announced connected 28 September and is presently disposable for pre-order. There's nary steadfast day connected delivery, but it's expected wrong 2021.

squirrel_widget_2683477

Design

• Show 15: 402 x 252 x 35mm, 2215g, partition mounted
• Show 10: 251 x 230 x 172mm, 2560g, escaped standing

The plan of the Echo Show 15 and the Echo Show 10 is evidently the biggest difference. The Echo Show 10 is unique, with a circular basal containing the speaker, onto which the 10.1-inch tablet is mounted.

It's connected a swivel mount, truthful the tablet portion tin determination truthful you tin rotate it to look you, oregon it tin way you arsenic you determination astir the country erstwhile connected a video telephone for example. The plan uses plastics and cloth coverings, similar overmuch of the remainder of the Amazon Echo family.

The Echo Show 15 is designed much similar a picture, truthful it volition bent connected your wall. It's beauteous heavy astatine 35mm, but that allows for the speakers that are built-in connected the rear. The framework itself sits a small distant from the partition truthful the 2 speakers don't get muffled.

Fundamentally, these are wholly antithetic plan approaches to akin products. Both are designed to enactment that Alexa-powered instrumentality successful your country and springiness you a beauteous large screen.

Obviously, the Show 15 wins retired connected size, portion besides offering horizonal oregon vertical mounting. Putting it connected the partition would perchance let for a seamless installation, portion the Show 10 volition ever request support oregon worktop abstraction to accommodate it.

If you wanted to person your Show 15 connected a worktop, determination is really a basal (sold separately) for it.

squirrel_widget_6109544

Display

• Show 15: 15.6in, 1920 x 1080 pixels, 141ppi
• Show 10: 10.1in, 1280 x 800 pixels, 149ppi

There's an evident quality betwixt the sizes of these displays, with Show 15 people having a 15.6-inch show that tin beryllium mounted either vertically oregon horizontally.

What's much absorbing is that they're not really that antithetic extracurricular of the size. Although the Echo Show 15 has a higher resolution, the pixel density connected these displays is fundamentally the same, truthful graphically, the show should beryllium beauteous close.

What's important to retrieve astir these devices is that they're not viewed from adjacent up and the UI visuals are beauteous basic. That means you don't request a immense magnitude of resolution.

Both are touchscreen and some are LCD, truthful the lone existent quality is size - and obviously, having a larger surface is going to beryllium amended for watching advertisement hoc video connected the Show 15, but this is truly designed much similar an accusation model oregon household noticeboard.

Hardware and audio

• Show 15: Amlogic PopcornA with Amazon AZ2, 2x 1.6in drivers
• Show 10: MediaTek 8193 with Amazon AZ1, 2x 1in tweeters, 1x 3in woofer

The halfway hardware of the Echo Show models benignant of doesn’t matter, due to the fact that it's designed for a circumstantial acceptable of tasks. However, velocity ever remains an important constituent and we'll beryllium definite to trial these 2 devices side-by-side erstwhile the Echo Show 15 becomes available.

However, 1 cardinal quality is that the Echo 15 introduces a caller neural processing spot from Amazon called the AZ2. This is overmuch much almighty than the spot - the AZ1 - recovered successful the Echo Show 10.

It's designed to unfastened up AI tasks and boost instrumentality learning, allowing the Show 15 to bash much locally alternatively than successful the cloud.

One of the features it unlocks is that it tin larn to recognise your look and subordinate that with a profile. This volition let it to amusement your calendar erstwhile you look astatine the Show 15 alternatively than idiosyncratic else's.

This isn’t excessively acold fetched arsenic Echo devices tin already identify users based connected voice - and the caller hardware is besides successful Amazon's Astro.

Moving onto audio, and the Echo Show 10 has the advantage. It has a 2.1 statement of speakers with a brace of 1-inch tweeters and a 3-inch woofer, truthful it's similar a boosted mentation of the Echo - capable to nutrient decent audio. The tweeters are besides directional to lucifer the display, truthful the dependable tin travel you astir the country too.

The Show 15 connected the different manus has a brace of 1.6-inch drivers. These are astir apt precisely the aforesaid arsenic recovered successful the Echo Dot - there's nary woofer present - truthful the soundscape isn't apt to beryllium arsenic dynamic arsenic that of the Show 10.

Functionality

The functionality of these 2 devices are similar. Both connection Alexa dependable control arsenic good arsenic a carnal interaction constituent to entree Alexa services, including astute location control.

The accusation displayed is similar, though the Echo Show 15 has shown disconnected a antithetic interface, utilizing widgets and focusing connected being much idiosyncratic - arsenic good arsenic offering a vertical oregon horizontal view.

The Show 15 tin recognise who is looking astatine it and amusement accusation applicable to that person, which is being pushed arsenic 1 of its unsocial features, but it tin besides alteration the show to Photo Frame mode, showing disconnected your photos oregon artwork.

However, we've antecedently seen Amazon talking astir widgets, truthful we expect those to get connected the Echo Show 10 - arsenic good arsenic the enactment for sticky notes - truthful we don't deliberation determination volition beryllium a immense quality successful the wide functionality of these 2 devices.

One happening the Echo Show 10 tin bash - and we've talked astir antecedently - is travel you astir the room. This volition let the show to determination to springiness you the champion view, truthful if you're moving connected a look and moving successful antithetic areas of the kitchen, for example, the Show 10 tin rotate truthful you tin spot it.

This is unsocial to the plan and obviously, with the Show 15 apt to beryllium partition mounted, a antithetic proposition to the Show 10.

Summing up

The quality betwixt these 2 devices mostly comes down the format. They are distinctly antithetic successful design, but connection overmuch the aforesaid successful presumption of functionality, for the aforesaid price.

The Show 15 volition person a chiseled vantage offering a larger format and partition mounting, it's apt to beryllium a earthy astute location hub and accusation window, portion staying disconnected your surfaces.

The Show 10 offers a small much oomph erstwhile it comes to euphony and that rotating show gives it a unsocial borderline successful positioning.

Of course, we'll beryllium putting the Echo Show 15 done its paces arsenic soon arsenic it's disposable and we'll update astatine that clip with much details astir performance.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 30 September 2021.