Amazon Echo - New Product
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I assumed it was from this
"Echo Dot, 3.5 mm audio cable (4 ft.), power adapter (9W), USB charging cable, and Quick Start Guide"
Some great deals right now for Amazon Prime days if you buy through your Echo. Just got a 'drone' for $15. Technically it's just a remote controlled quad copter with a camera but for $15 I couldn't pass up. Can also get the Tap for $79 ($69 if it's your first purchase with your Echo).
https://smile.amazon.com/b?node=146...10_ods_Email_Home_DR_crm_MoretoTry_AlexaDeals
https://smile.amazon.com/b?node=146...10_ods_Email_Home_DR_crm_MoretoTry_AlexaDeals
Tried ordering my first thing directly from the Echo since they were offering $10 off $20 orders or more. Maybe it was the product I was buying but it just wouldn't work. I tried about every combination of words and it just wouldn't work.
[h=1]Anker PowerCore+ 10050 Premium Aluminum Portable Battery Charger with Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 Technology Black[/h]
Tried just Anker
Tried the product ID number
Tried Powercore
Tried Anker Powercore
Tried 10050
Tried Quick Charge
Tried Anker Technology
It sounds like it's good at ordering products that you've already purchased. When I tried "power bank" it did find some items that I had ordered in the past. Worse case scenario I would hope you could just say the item # but no go.
[h=1]Anker PowerCore+ 10050 Premium Aluminum Portable Battery Charger with Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 Technology Black[/h]
Tried just Anker
Tried the product ID number
Tried Powercore
Tried Anker Powercore
Tried 10050
Tried Quick Charge
Tried Anker Technology
It sounds like it's good at ordering products that you've already purchased. When I tried "power bank" it did find some items that I had ordered in the past. Worse case scenario I would hope you could just say the item # but no go.
There are limitations to what you can order through Alexa:
If you say: "Alexa, order a drone" it works almost too well
This story leads me to believe the Amazon Echo is capturing more than just sentences beginning with "Alexa".
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/27/police-said-to-probe-amazon-echo-in-relation-to-murder-case.html?__source=yahoo|finance|headline|headline|story&par=yahoo&doc=104188522&yptr=yahoo
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/27/police-said-to-probe-amazon-echo-in-relation-to-murder-case.html?__source=yahoo|finance|headline|headline|story&par=yahoo&doc=104188522&yptr=yahoo
I would say it's certainly possible, but I don't think that's what that article implies. Good on Amazon for not just giving in without a valid warrant, a search warrant for the house doesn't or shouldn't include data that Amazon possesses.
*Adjusts tinfoil hat* Probably just coincidence but that murder happened in Bentonville, AR. That is the city where Wal-Mart HQ is located. Anyone else stop and wonder if the prosecutor is taking advantage of this case to try and make people extra leery of these Amazon devices?
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Bump. On sale today for $129.
Any great or not so great reviews?
With my luck, I'd buy one and a cordless version will come out right away.
Any great or not so great reviews?
With my luck, I'd buy one and a cordless version will come out right away.
There already is a cordless version. I can't get the link to work but it's called a 'Tap'
We have an Echo and got my daughter a Tap for Christmas. Initially you had to tap it before asking Alexa to do something but they added a setting to make it 'listen' all the time like the Echo. So now it is a smaller, cordless version of the Echo and sounds about the same.