The $23 Echo Dot deal is a great deal to upgrade your smart home this Black Friday

I'm a sucker for a good deal, and smart speakers are one of the devices I like buying during sales events. For a discounted price, you can get a speaker for your home that functions as a Bluetooth speaker and connection to your smart home, and this $23 Echo Dot Black Friday deal checks all the boxes. 

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The Echo Dot is a great way to add Amazon Alexa to your home, bringing the virtual assistant into your routines to answer questions and run smart home devices, but it's also a pretty decent speaker on its own, especially at $30. This speaker won't blow the Apple HomePod mini out of the water, but it is still a great, inexpensive speaker. 

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