Prime Day offers the best price yet on Amazon’s new Echo Show smart display

You can’t have Prime Day without Amazon device deals. The two things are inseparable. Even the latest Echo Show hasn’t managed to escape the price cuts this year despite having only been released a few months ago.

Over at Amazon, Prime members can nab the 10.1-inch smart display for a new all-time low price of $189.99. That’s $60 off its retail price and close to a 25% discount. For such a new device, this is a huge deal and one you certainly shouldn’t be missing if you’re all-in on Alexa-based smart home gear.

While smart speakers were the first virtual assistant-powered devices to live in our homes, we soon discovered that a smart speaker with a built-in screen could unlock a lot of additional capabilities that a purely audio-based device couldn’t achieve.

The Echo Show is great for use in the kitchen, for example, where you might want to follow along with a recipe on-screen when your hands are messy or in the living room for a video call where you don’t have to bother getting your laptop out and stare down at it on your lap.

A smart display also offers glanceable information like your currently running timers, weather info, calendar, or your smart security camera feeds, while also allowing you to show off some family photos when not actively in use. That’s on top of all of the voice-controlled smarts that Alexa offers via Echo devices like music streaming, smart home controls, and more.

Deals on Amazon’s premium, top-of-the-range devices are rarer than those on smaller devices like the Echo Dot, so you should give serious consideration to this deal if you’ve been holding out on buying a smart display until now.