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The product video looks neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GijLoiVkmYI I "applied" (lol) for the $99 dealie. Let's see if Bezos thinks I am cool enough.
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Finally got an invite. Late Feb ship estimate. I had some sort of zombie credit so it ended up costing $66 shipped. Nice.
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Does anyone use Google Voice? If so, does the Echo ring when someone calls your GV number? I just noticed it and it has me a bit confused. I don't recall ever linking things together for this to happen and it's not connected to anything via bluetooth. 
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Tap and dot arrived today. The Tap is pretty small and the sound is pretty great. Will be perfect for summer patio lounging. Haven't used the dot yet but it's small as you would expect. The Tap is real neat though. Can see tethered to a phone during a BBQ being a pretty fun party trick. Amazon has saved itself from the Fire phone debacle it seems. Edit: La Familia  Edit 2: the dot works completely by itself. You can use it to, for example, stream music from the unit itself. Obviously the sound is tinny and thin, but in the bedroom (where mine now is) that's pretty neat. Reminiscent of, well, a clock radio speaker. Can hear news in the morning or have it read a book from Audible, etc. Alarms too. Pretty neat little thing even if you don't want a speaker connected all the time. hotsauce fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 31, 2016 |
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bull3964 posted:I really don't understand why tap can't be set to be always listening. Yeah this is a strange one. After yelling at a few times after getting it set up, I realized that you have to push the button to have it listen. At least you don't have to say the trigger word...just say what you want it to do and you're off. It is odd though.
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Call Me Charlie posted:Somebody on the Echo subreddit got creative. Yeah and I saw where some people are using the dot in their car, too. 
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JHVH-1 posted:My car has USB to power it, and bluetooth to sync it, but I guess you need a phone with wifi shared to use it? I don't think it would work on anything but wifi. And you'd have to set your phones SSID and password to be identical to your home since you can't set it up otherwise. hotsauce fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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We got the mother in law (widowed) an Echo for Christmas. She's enamored with it. It actually gives her "company" since she's alone. Pretty cool IMO. Has an iPhone. Never used Siri and has no interest in doing so. Amazon is doing it right for a lot of use cases. Sure if your Android device works, but for the ordinary person, Echo is the correct solution.
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eyebeem posted:Wife just gave me one for my birthday. We use it for: 1. Timers 2. Weather 3. Playing talk radio for our dogs when we leave 4. That's about it I know it does a million other things but these 3 are really the extent of our use. Worth it? Perhaps. It's nice to bark multiple timers when your hands are dirty while cooking. Hue bulbs would be neat but gently caress dropping hundreds of dollars on light bulbs.
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I was an "early adopter" of the original Echo Dot. Had it since day one. I seem to recall some pre-existing owner discount for the gen2 dot...but I ordered one (using my dot via voice) last week and it shipped this week. Full $49 charged. I mean, I'm not complaining - it's a still a great price, but I seem to recall the internet saying Amazon was handing out an "oops, we updated it already, here's $10 off" discount for existing owners. I'm mistaken, apparently.
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benisntfunny posted:I never saw anything like that. Had original echo pre-order and ordered dot the day it was announced. It's $10 off if you buy 5 because the 6th is free? Ah, maybe I misunderstood. Seems if you order the echo dot with your echo dot (yo, dawg) you will get a $10 echo shopping credit a week after it ships...to buy other stuff using your echo I guess? Slick Deals is hardly a source, but maybe this is where I saw it to begin with: http://slickdeals.net/f/9105275-echo-dot-2nd-generation-black-or-white-pre-order-50-free-shipping?page=10
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Keystoned posted:Alexa only deal today for $15 off a hue starter kit. Includes the hub and 2 white bulbs for $55. I want to buy it, but I know it's like the first free hit from a drug dealer, so I'm just saying NO.
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