Amazon Echo Plus 2nd Generation Premium sound with a built-in smart home hub

Echo Plus has a built-in Zigbee hub to easily set up and control your compatible smart home devices, and an improved sound for streaming music.
New premium speakers powered by Dolby play 360° audio with crisp vocals and dynamic bass response. You can also adjust equaliser settings within the Alexa app.
Just ask Alexa to play music, read the news, check weather forecasts, set alarms and timers, control compatible smart home devices, call anyone with an Echo device, the Alexa App or Skype, and more.
Set up your smart home without a separate hub. Ask Alexa to control compatible Zigbee smart lights, plugs and more. Echo Plus also includes a built-in temperature sensor.
Ask Alexa for a song, artist or genre from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, TuneIn and more. With multi-room music, you can play music on your compatible Echo devices in different rooms.
Call or message anyone with an Echo device or the Alexa App hands-free. Instantly drop in on other rooms in your home or make an announcement to every room with a compatible Echo device.
With seven microphones, beam-forming technology and noise cancellation, Echo Plus hears you from any direction - even while music is playing.

The simple way to start your smart home

Echo Plus connects to and controls smart lights, plugs, switches and more. Just power on compatible products and say, “Alexa, discover my devices.” Echo Plus will automatically detect and set up those devices so you can control them with your voice. This simple setup process works with dozens of compatible smart home devices that use Zigbee. Echo Plus also supports every Works with Alexa smart home device.

Skills
Alexa has tens of thousands of skills and counting. Skills are like apps and help you do more, such as playing True or False, tracking your fitness with Fitbit or falling asleep to rain sounds. Create your own personal skills and custom responses with Alexa Skill Blueprints. Just say “Alexa, help me get started with skills”.