Echo Show 8 (2025) combines an 8.7″ HD touchscreen, spatial audio, and a built-in smart home hub into a compact smart display. Use it for video calls, music, cooking recipes, smart-home control, or as a digital photo frame. Its sleek design and strong feature set make it a versatile addition to bedrooms, kitchens, or offices. Great upgrade for anyone wanting more than a speaker.
The Amazon Echo Show 8 (newest model, 8.7″ HD) is a modern, compact smart display that packs a surprising amount of functionality into a sleek, household-friendly form factor. Its refreshed design, improved internals, and smart-home capabilities make it well-suited for kitchens, bedrooms, offices, or any living area where screen size and space are limited but convenience and versatility matter.
At the core is an 8.7-inch HD touchscreen display with 800 × 1340 resolution. That extra visual space — about 15 % more viewing area compared with the 2023 release — gives you clear, vibrant visuals for everything from recipes and video calls to streaming and smart-home control. The size is big enough to read at a glance but compact enough not to dominate a countertop or desk.
Under the hood, Echo Show 8 uses an AZ3 Pro chip with an AI-accelerator and leverages “Omnisense” technology. The result is snappy, responsive performance whether you’re loading a playlist, pulling up your schedule, video-calling a family member, or checking your smart-home status. Even with multiple devices and background noise, Alexa remains responsive and accurate.
For audio, the device comes with a 2.8″ woofer plus two full-range drivers — delivering spatial audio, clearer vocals, a wider sound stage, and deeper bass than previous generations. This makes it a solid option for background music while cooking, casual listening sessions, podcasts, or streaming TV shows. The spatial audio is designed to fill a room rather than sound tiny or tinny, which is a significant step up compared with standard smart speakers.
Echo Show 8 is more than just a display. It also functions as a built-in smart-home hub: you get Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth, and compatibility with Zigbee, Matter, and Thread — enabling control of thousands of devices such as lights, plugs, thermostats, cameras, and more. You can operate them with voice or touch. With Omnisense, the device can also detect presence, ambient temperature, or light, and trigger routines: think lights that turn on when you enter a room or smart notifications that adjust based on time of day or who’s around.
As a daily productivity and lifestyle assistant, the device shows off its strengths: display your calendar, reminders, weather, or to-do lists at a glance; get meal ideas and follow cooking recipes in the kitchen; manage shopping lists; or even transform the screen into a personalized digital photo frame when idle. For video calls, the Echo Show 8 features a centered, auto-framing 13 MP camera (with 3.3× zoom and noise reduction) — making video chats feel natural and smooth.
Privacy is thoughtfully addressed. You get a physical button to disable microphones and the camera, plus full in-app controls to manage voice recordings or camera access. That gives you peace of mind when you don’t want the device listening or watching.
The package includes the Echo Show 8 unit itself, a power adapter, and a quick start guide — enough to get set up quickly. For added flexibility in positioning and viewing angle, Amazon offers a separate adjustable stand (sold separately) that allows tilt and swivel for easier recipe following, video calls, or media consumption on countertops or desks.
On the sustainability front, the product is built with recycled materials and certified under “Recycled Content Certification for Electrical and Electronic Equipment,” which might appeal to environmentally conscious buyers aiming to reduce waste.
Use cases are broad: a kitchen assistant fetching recipes while you cook, a smart-home control panel managing lights and devices with voice, a video-calling hub to stay in touch with family, a bedside alarm and information display, or even a stylish digital photo frame in your living room. The Echo Show 8 blends design, function, and smart-home connectivity in a compact footprint.
In short, the Echo Show 8 (2025) offers a balanced mix of screen, sound, smart, and convenience — a versatile everyday smart hub that works for cooking, entertainment, home automation, communication, or just simplifying daily routines.