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Amazon’s Alexa App Gets a Major UI Redesign in Update

Kellen December 1, 2023

As a Google Home user who hasn't touched an Amazon Echo or Alexa product in a solid decade, this news that I'm about to share is not for me. But you know what? This is big and beyond my personal tech situation, so let's talk about the new Alexa app as we fist...

Buy a Celebrity Voice for Your Alexa Device? Get Your Refund!

Tim May 30, 2023

Did Amazon somehow convince you into buying a celebrity voice for your Alexa-powered device? It's all good, we all make mistakes. Thankfully, you can get your money back, with Amazon announcing that they are shutting down celebrity voices for Alexa and issuing...

Fossil Gen 6 Adds Amazon Alexa as Assistant Choice

Kellen March 15, 2022

The Fossil Gen 6 launched last year with a promise to offer choice in assistants, starting first with Google Assistant and later adding Amazon Alexa. Today, Fossil has announced that Amazon Alexa is now available to their latest smartwatch. Fossil tells us...

Verizon’s Number Share Lets Alexa Become Your New Home Phone

Kellen November 16, 2021

Have you always dreamed of being able to use Amazon's Alexa to make calls for you, calls that would show up on the other end as coming from your Verizon number? Or maybe another dream included receiving calls to your personal Verizon number through an Echo...

Sharp’s Smart Microwave has Alexa Voice Commands, Orville Redenbacher’s ‘Certified’ Popcorn Preset

Tim December 9, 2020

Have you ever seen a product and just thought, "Damn, I gotta have that!" I get that feeling about smart microwaves. I use my dumb microwave all the time for heating up stuff, and I gotta tell you, it'd be nice to tell my microwave how long I want it to turn...

You Can Now Use Samuel L. Jackson’s Voice for Alexa, But It Ain’t Free

Tim December 12, 2019

One of our planet's most recognizable voices is now available for Amazon's Alexa. Yup, I'm talking about the Jedi Master with the purple lightsaber, Samuel L. Jackson. While this isn't Google Assistant, it's still pretty cool. Amazon is selling access to the...

Motorola AX Home Phone Has Built-In Alexa, Costs $99

Tim June 10, 2019

If you need to upgrade all of the dumb things in your house to smart things, the home phone seems like a good place to start. Typically, home phones take up valuable counter space, and if all they're doing is connecting you to the outside world via a telephone...

Amazon Echo Show 5 Up for Pre-Order, $89 for a 5.5″ Alexa-Powered Smart Display

Tim May 29, 2019

Amazon announced a compact version of the Echo Show today, and instead of calling it what I imagine was the obvious choice, which would have been Echo Show Mini, they decided to call it the Echo Show 5. Echo Show 5 features a 5.5" HD display, front-facing...