Amazon Echo Dot 3 Overview — Significantly better audio and aesthetics
This explains why Amazon abandoned the USB cable for power (bolding added).
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The Echo Dot now uses a power brick with a round plug, instead of using the micro USB port and USB power adapter that the previous models used. The power adapter is nearly identical in shape to the ones that come with Fire TV boxes/cubes and all other Echo models. The power adapter and cable come in white if you opt for the Sandstone color, to better match the white face, and come in black for the other two colors. The switch to a traditional power brick was necessary because the new Echo Dot now requires 15 watts of power, compared to the old model’s 9 watt power adapter.
The extra power will become immediately evident the first time you crank the new Echo Dot’s volume up. Despite being only slightly larger than the previous Echo Dot, it sounds so much better and gets so much louder. I can’t stress this point enough because it really is a shocking upgrade.
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