For some reason, the 2016-released Amazon Tap hasn't proven quite as successful as the rest of the company's smart speaker lineup, receiving no sequel as the original Echo got a direct follow-up, as well as more spin-off products in recent years than we can count on the fingers of one hand.

While it seems the Tap is not the best-sounding member of its Alexa-supporting family, you'd have figured its portability and versatility would be enough to offset that widely reported flaw. That's right, you can actually carry this bad boy around and get it to answer your questions and take ...