The fourth-gen Echo Dot is only $3 away from its record-low Prime Day price

a fourth-gen echo dot on a bookshelf next to a bed, a pair of glasses, and a potted houseplant

SAVE $22: Amazon and Best Buy have the fourth-gen Echo Dot on sale for just $27.99 as of April 27. It typically retails for $49.99, so this works out to a 44% savings.

ICYMI, Amazon is running a limited-time deal where new customers can get an Echo Dot for just 99 cents by bundling it with a month of Amazon Music Unlimited ($7.99). It’s a ridiculously good offer we’ve seen only a couple times before; the only catch is that the device in question is a third-gen Echo Dot, a slightly outdated smart speaker that came out back in 2018.

Hey, 99 cents is 99 cents — but if you’d rather have the latest and greatest Amazon smart speaker, you’re still in luck. As of April 27, the fourth-gen Echo Dot from fall 2020 is on sale for just $27.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. That’s $22 (or 44%) off its suggested retail price of $49.99, putting it just $3 away from its all-time low price from last Prime Day.

Our favorite smart speaker in the Echo lineup, the fourth-gen Dot sports a stylish, spherical design that’s available in three colors: Charcoal, Glacier White, and Twilight Blue. Its 1.6-inch front-firing speaker and Alexa assistant are two features that carried over from the previous version, though the addition of a newer AZ1 Neural Edge processor makes it faster at responding to commands and questions.

It’s honestly a steal compared to most alternatives on the market even at MSRP, so finding it on sale for almost half that price is pretty clutch.