ZDNET's key takeaways The Dreo Smart Wall Heater is $130 on Amazon.
This little 1,500W heater pumps out warmth and has just the right amount of features to set it above the competition.
The vertical oscillation fin can be paused, but only in three positions - pointing upward, straight out, or downward (there's no way to stop it between those marks). View now at Amazon
The Dreo Smart Wall Heater is on sale for $117 (save $13) on Amazon for a limited time.
Access to a reliable space heater can mean the difference between being cold and comfortable in your home, basement, or garage -- and this little heater packs the necessary punch.
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In my home, we have two furnaces that do a remarkable job of keeping me and my wife nice and toasty. However, the basement -- where I work out -- doesn't enjoy the same warmth as the rest of the house. I've always hesitated to use a space heater in the basement because the room isn't finished, it can get quite messy, and there's not always room on the floor for a space heater among all the exercise equipment.
So, when Dreo provided its wall-mounted space heater to review, I was happy to give it a try.
My experience
First, I did not bother with the Dreo space heater's smart aspect. The reason is that we've decommissioned our Alexa devices in favor of Google Home speakers. We recently switched network providers, and I couldn't get Alexa to connect to the new network, no matter how much I tried. I'd always found Alexa devices to be problematic when it comes to connectivity, and the Google Home speakers were absolutely painless to deploy.
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