Amazon Echo Spot Archives

DEAL: Amazon Thanks You by Taking at Least 20% Off Alexa Devices, Today Only

Kellen March 22, 2018 4

Amazon gets rated well in a lot of polls that have to do with company satisfaction or reputation or blah-blah, which most of us do not care a lick about. That is, until that poll turns into Amazon handing out steep discounts as our reward for...I don't care,...

Amazon’s Follow-Up Mode for Alexa Devices Would be Great With Google Home

Kellen March 14, 2018 7

At the end of last week, Amazon announced a new Follow-Up Mode for Alexa devices that allows you to ask follow-up questions without having to repeat the wake word over and over again between each. I finally got around to playing with it today, and yeah, I need...

Canary Skill Added for Amazon Alexa, Watch Your Feeds on Echo Spot and Show

Tim February 13, 2018 3

Thanks to a new Canary skill for Amazon Alexa, Canary All-in-One, View, and Flex owners can get important video feeds straight to Amazon Echo devices. With the update to firmware v3.0.0, AIOs and View devices can relay video feeds directly to an Echo Spot or...

DEAL: Amazon’s Big Super Bowl Echo and Alexa Discounts are Here: $15 Off Spot, $80 Off Show

Kellen February 3, 2018 6

The "Big Game" is tomorrow, so Amazon is celebrating by discounting almost all of the Amazon Echo products it sells, as well as others that feature Alexa. The discounts are solid too, like a $15 price drop on the Amazon Echo Spot and an $80 price drop on Echo...

Amazon Echo Devices and Alexa Now Accept Multiple Voice Profiles

Kellen October 12, 2017 12

One of Google Home's coolest features has for a long time been its ability to present specific information to the voice that activated it. For example, if my wife were to ask Google Home for information from her calendar, it would give her just that - her...

You Can Now Place Outbound Phone Calls to Most Numbers With Your Amazon Echo Devices

Kellen September 27, 2017 28

Along with the various Amazon product unveils today, the company also announced that Amazon Alexa can now place outbound phone calls to most numbers from Amazon Echo devices. Previously, Alexa could only do voice or video calls and messages from Echo device to...

Amazon Announces New Echo, Echo Plus, Echo Spot, Echo Connect, and Echo Buttons

Tim September 27, 2017 13

Amazon announced a new Echo device lineup today, consisting of four products: A new Echo with assorted exterior materials, Echo Plus, Echo Spot, Echo Connect, and Echo Buttons. Amazon Echo The new Echo (pictured above) is much like the last Echo, featuring...