In the smart home world, few names are as well-known as Alexa. Amazon has made its assistant a (literal) household name. The Echo Hub is the company’s latest device designed to harness Alexa and use it as a full-fledged smart home control panel.

Unfortunately, all this smart home control comes at a price. Since its launch, the Amazon Echo Hub has remained at $179. Even during Amazon’s Prime Day shopping event, the price remained the same. That’s why we’re so excited to see the Echo Hub discounted to $144 on Amazon—the first price cut ever.

Our US Editor-in-Chief Mike Prospero has spent a lot of time testing the Echo Hub, and in our Amazon Echo Hub review he called the Editors’ Choice device a “smart home hub.” He noted that it “lets you control all your smart home devices more easily,” which is everything we want from our smart home devices. After all, these things should make our lives easier, not harder.

Another important point we noted is that it’s smaller than you might expect. If you don’t want your smart home hub to be mistaken for a TV, you’ll like the Echo Hub. However, it does support streaming apps, so it’s almost a TV in some ways.

Regardless of how you plan to use it—whether you want to control your smart home or use some of the best streaming services—the Echo Hub seems up to the task. It’s not a perfect device. Some users claim in Amazon reviews that the software has a few bugs, but that seems to have been fixed according to more recent reviews.

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