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With our busy schedules and return to the office, making sure your day is as stress-free as possible is essential. Between kids’ sports games, those impending save-the-dates getting mailed out, and a host of other summer plans that are popping up faster than our flowers, it’s also super hard to keep track of everything.

That’s where the new Echo Show 15 comes into play. While Amazon’s Echo lines have been great at keeping everyone on track and optimizing their time, the Echo Show 15 gives off a better visual while complementing your home space.

Price and Availability: The Echo Show 15 is available for $249.99 at a host of different places, including Amazon, Target, and Best Buy.

Why We Chose it: The Echo Show 15 is a 15.6-inch touchscreen HD display that can replace your kitchen countertop as the family hub. Customizable widgets allow you to build the home hub of your choice, so you can leave quick notes for the family on the screen, as well as see a large visual schedule of the day. With voice commands, you can easily rearrange the schedule.

And when you’re not using it to make or change plans, it’s great for a host of other activities. The Echo Show 15 can act as a small TV, streaming your favorite shows across Netflix, Hulu, and Prime Video on the HD screen, as well as streaming Spotify thanks to the available app. You can also check Amazon Blink Cameras on the HD screen, and get meal recommendations and cooking tips while you’re in the middle of making dinner.

Why You Need It: The Amazon Echo Show 15 comes with a host of ways to use it. It can act as the new place where your kids go to for scheduling questions, read memo notes from mom and dad, and everything in between. Your family will also feel safer knowing you can check the Blink Doorbell from the comfort of your living room, kitchen, or wherever you place the Echo Show 15 when it rings for peace of mind.

Even for those without kids, you can control your smart home with voice commands from the device, and when it’s not in use, it will display your family photos no matter how you place it, be it orientation or landscape (note, you cannot rotate it while it is mounted). It can act as a multipurpose tool thanks to the 15.6-inch HD screen which is perfect for streaming movies or cooking shows while you’re working on dinner in the kitchen. In fact, you can connect other Echo Dots to enhance the audio quality while you’re streaming for a surround sound experience.

What Others Are Saying: Engadget felt that it was a beautiful piece that had a bunch of very useful widgets for optimizing your day. “he 15.6-inch screen here is the best out of all of the Echo Shows, with a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. The display is so bright and sharp that I can see it clearly across the room (about nine feet away). When it shows full-screen photos and pictures, the frame really does look like a piece of art.”

CNN said that the Echo Show 15 felt that the Echo Show 15 worked as a home’s cohesive unit for digesting information quickly, saying, “As a digital hub for the whole family, the Echo Show 15 impresses with a larger screen to help you effortlessly find information of all sorts — from news to weather to calendar alerts. With the largest screen yet, it has space to sprawl out and acts as a great display for taking in content.”

Final Conclusion: The Echo Show 15 should be considered an essential part of your home organization, especially if you’re constantly on the go and need an easy way for everyone in the house to be on the same page. We know that there are smaller options out there, especially for kids, but with a wall mounted display, you can easily disguise those essential widgets as a beautiful artwork for the adults in the room.