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Your Amazon Echo-Filled House Now has an Alexa Intercom System

Kellen June 26, 2017 7

By expanding the newly launched calling and messaging capabilities of Amazon Echo devices, Amazon is now allowing you to talk between the numerous Echo devices you may have throughout your house, intercom style. Over the next few days, Amazon will roll the...

DEAL: Amazon Echo Drops to $129.99 Today Only ($50 Off)

Kellen June 26, 2017 3

Yep, for today only, Amazon has dropped the price of the Amazon Echo to $129.99. That's a $50 discount and possibly the biggest Echo deal in some time. The deal ends at 9PM Pacific, tonight. Amazon Echo Link

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Comparison: HomePod vs. Google Home vs. Amazon Echo

Kellen June 6, 2017 82

Apple's WWDC keynote was packed full of big announcements yesterday. Whether you care about most of them is not what I'm here to talk about, but I did want to at least highlight the HomePod, which is Apple's Google Home and Amazon Echo competitor. Since...

Thursday Poll: Do You Own a Google Home or Amazon Echo?

Kellen May 25, 2017 97

It's not hard for us to get excited about the hot new trend of the moment, smart home speaker assistants. Unlike Android or iOS, which are both beyond mature at this point, this category of products is growing by the day and could soon lead to a world...

IKEA’s TRÅDFRI Smart Lighting Will Soon Work With Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa

Kellen May 23, 2017 21

IKEA's new TRÅDFRI smart lighting system was announced back in March as a potentially affordable and more accessible alternative to the expensive Philips Hue products of the world. Unfortunately, at launch, the system didn't play well with the other smart...

DEAL: Buy 2 Amazon Echo Devices at Best Buy, Save $80

Kellen May 22, 2017 12

The smart home speaker assistant market is hot as hell right now. On one hand, you have all of the goodies from last week's Google I/O on the way to Google Home. On the other, you have Amazon's Echo, which always seems to be a step ahead of Google at all times...

Amazon Alexa Will Soon be Able to Deliver Notifications for Services

Kellen May 16, 2017 4

If you own an Amazon Alexa-equipped device, like an Echo, you know that the device is only reactive in that it doesn't do much unless you ask it to. In the near future, that will change as Amazon looks to enable notifications for services that can alert you as...

Alexa App Update With Voice Calls and Messaging Now Live

Kellen May 10, 2017 22

The voice calling and messaging feature for Amazon Echo products that was announced as "coming soon" yesterday is now available. The Alexa app on Android is receiving an update this morning that enables the feature right away, as long as you give it proper...