Amazon appears to be readying a cheaper version of its popular Echo Dot speaker, if a tweet that
showed up briefly on the company's Twitter
account this morning is anything to go by.The voice - controlled smart speaker that houses Amazon's personal assistant Alexa was announced back
in March, costing $ 89.99, and is a smaller, palm - sized expansion to the company's flagship Echo product that lets users expand the capabilities of the latter device to different rooms of their house.Now it seems Amazon is
almost set to offer a cheaper «all - new» version of the Dot at $ 49.99.