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Amazon's 'Echo Show' Offers Music Fans a Multi-Dimensional Experience

  • by Patti Cortez
  • in Sci-tech
  • — May 15, 2017
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The Show is capable of using all the Skills (basically, the Echo equivalent of an app), but it now features hundreds of new skills that take advantage of the camera and touchscreen.

When Amazon unveiled the Amazon Echo, a smart speaker that features Amazon's virtual AI named "Alexa", the idea caught on quickly.

The black Echo Show has topped the electronics top seller charts on amazon.com in the first 48 hours of the launch.

We as people need to realize the risk to our privacy also. The screen and video calling also help Amazon set the Echo apart from Google Home. Customers who buy two Echo Show devices receive a $100 discount with code SHOW2PACK.

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On the Echo Show, Alexa can also show you photos, shopping lists, security camera feeds (!) and so on. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its Alexa smart assistant/Echo smart speaker combination.

The changes, which thrust Amazon into the crowded landscape of internet communications tools like Microsoft's Skype, Apple's FaceTime and Google's Hangouts, underline the company's ambitions for the Echo. "Just imaging getting seeing a 360 view of the new Ford Mustang while hearing about its new features from an Edmunds editor, or seeing images with measurements of the actual cargo space of a new SUV when you ask about cargo capacity". Finally, Amazon Echo Show will have dual-band (2.4 and 5 GHz) 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Initially the Home Hub was rumored to be a Cortana powered speaker to compete with Amazon Echo. The calls are clear, too, and Amazon even lets you send voice messages (think of them as a voicemail) or text that can be spoken by Alexa to another user.

Amazon Alexa could guide you not just through its voice, it's now even capable of showing you its real prowess. Hence, it is not being billed as a portable device but as one for home use. Apple, the world's most valuable tech company, is now missing from the scene but the company might release its Siri-powered speaker at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. Everything is just a few voice commands away.

If you're a big music fan, you can use it to play your favorite songs and albums from Amazon Music and get the lyrics to pop up on your Echo Show so you can sing along to what you're listening to and have your own karaoke show. Amazon has ended the sale on the Echo and other Amazon Devices available all of last week. The call quality is good but not great - voices sounded a bit hollow on my Amazon Echo Dot.

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