Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) vs Apple HomePod mini

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Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) compared with HomePod mini

	AmazonEcho Show 5 (3rd Gen)	AppleHomePod mini
Overview
Released
Released	May 2023	November 2020
Sound
Type
Type	Speaker	Speaker
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos	No	No
Drivers
Drivers	One 1.75″ full-range speaker (1.7″ in Amazon's comparison chart)	Full-range driver and dual passive radiators, with a custom acoustic waveguide for a 360° sound field
Room tuning
Room tuning	–	Computational audio for real-time tuning
Connections
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi	Yes	Yes
Bluetooth
Bluetooth	Yes	No
AirPlay
AirPlay	No	Yes
Voice assistants
Voice assistants	Alexa	Siri
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi	Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac; Amazon Sidewalk; smart home over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh and Matter	802.11n Wi-Fi; Thread; Ultra Wideband chip for device proximity
Bluetooth
Bluetooth	A2DP (to and from the speaker) and AVRCP	Bluetooth 5.0 (RTINGS found no Bluetooth audio playback)
Ports
Ports	–	Power only (20 W adapter included)
Streaming
Streaming	Prime Video app, other video through the browser; Amazon Music and other music services through Alexa; Bluetooth	AirPlay from iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac; Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, third-party music services, TuneIn and UK radio stations by voice
Multi-room
Multi-room	–	Multi-room audio with AirPlay; stereo pair with a second HomePod mini
App
App	Alexa app (Fire OS, Android, iOS and web)	Home app on iPhone or iPad
Design
Weight
Weight	0.456 kg	0.345 kg (better)
Controls
Controls	5.5″ touchscreen; microphone and camera off button; 2 MP camera with built-in shutter; MediaTek MT8169B processor (Amazon's press release names the AZ2 Neural Edge processor)	Backlit touch surface (tap to play or pause, double-tap to skip, triple-tap to skip back, touch and hold for Siri, + and – for volume)
Microphones
Microphones	Reengineered microphone array; button disconnects the microphones and camera	Four-microphone design for far-field Siri
Size
Size	147 × 91 × 82 mm (W × D × H)	84.3 mm high, 97.9 mm wide
Colours
Colours	Charcoal, Glacier White, Cloud Blue	White, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Midnight
In the box
In the box	Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen), 22 W power adapter with 1.5 m (4.9 ft) cable, quick start guide	HomePod mini, 20 W power adapter, documentation