Amazon's Echo Dot is a 360 degree speaker that uses far-field voice recognition powered by the Amazon Alexa voice service/assistant. ... You won't lose access to any of the Echo's abilities, which includes its third party skills like Fitbit, Uber, Domino's Pizza, and Capitol One found in the Alexa app. Dot has Bluetooth capabilities so she can hook up to any wireless Bluetooth speakers. She can play music from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. The Dot can answer questions, give you news and weather reports, set alarms, put appointments on your Google calendar, and read off your appointments for the day.