Amazon has certainly come out with an abundance of new Alexa-controlled devices and accessories these past few months, but the Echo Wall Clock must be one of the e-commerce giant’s quirkiest, most original pieces of hardware yet.

Unfortunately, the $30 Echo companion neatly disguised as a good old fashioned analog clock didn’t exactly... work so well for quite a few early adopters. That’s obvious from the sub-par 3.3-star product rating average based on 453 reviews at the time of this writing, many of which highlighted pretty serious connectivity problems as the main cause of user dissatisfaction.

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