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Amazon Echo Spot
- qmarchi 9y agoToo bad it won't have YouTube.
- jonknee 9y agoAh yes, for all those times when you want to call up a YouTube video by voice and watch it on a 2.5" round screen.
- hyperbovine 9y agoSans the round part, that's many, many people on their phones.
- dawnerd 9y agoFinally a device for 360° video. /s
- qmarchi 9y agoComing Soon: 360°x360° video!
- rocktronica 9y agoBelieve it or not, lots of folks use Youtube as a music player and just waste the video bandwidth
- balls187 9y agoUntil they implement the webplayer...
- bigethan 9y agoThe speed of iteration on the Alexa product line is really impressive. Nine months ago, Alexa and Google Home seemed like two sides of the same coin. But now it feels like there's almost no comparison, Alexa is gonna do more and get the skills and features that fit my needs faster. I'm a Google Home owner, so perhaps it's a case where the grass is always greener :-)
- colechristensen 9y agoI just see it as adding vanity features to a mediocre product. People are espousing real fear of artificial intelligence, but since I can't get my echo to play the right radio station more than half the time, quitting after 5 failed tries ("The Current" sounds nothing like "Berlin", I'm fairly sure you could train a dog to recognize the difference) I'm not too worried about robot overlords any time soon. Get me voice recognition that actually understands language and can be corrected to learn what I want in even the most basic ways and I might change my mind. Adding cameras and screens only makes a creepy device creepier. I don't trust a company that sells me things designed primarily as vectors to sell me more things.
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y agoSerious suggestion, try putting on an accent.
- colechristensen 9y agoThis is not a bad suggestion. My usual route is to over-enunciate which is often effective when a conversational tone fails, but you were right, putting on the stupidest accent I could muster got me the result I wanted. I'm still not afraid of our robot overlords.
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y agoI for one welcome our robot overlords. Please don't assimilate me. Kidding aside I found Siri likes a southern draw, probably has something to do with elongation of the vowel sounds and enunciation. Basically pretend to be Forrest Gump and you're good to go.
- ldonley 9y agoMaybe I'm just wearing a foil-helmet, but the presence of a front-facing camera on an always-on device is concerning to me when there is no real good reason to have it.
- jonknee 9y agoTape is cheap.
- applecrazy 9y agoNot buying is even cheaper.
- evv 9y agoTell that to the half-dozen microphones you probably have within earshot.
- bau5 9y agoTampering with devices you own is already a crime in some circumstances. I'm sure they can extend it to these.
- cur50r 9y agoTyped from laptop or phone. Both complete with front facing cameras :)
- lewisj489 9y agoThose echo buttons look super fun, I loved Buzz!
- Zhenya 9y agoTwo questions: 1) These look like (horrible) renders. Do they not have working ones to show before announcing? 2) None of the photos show a power cord, are these battery powered or just trying to make them look "sexier" than they are?
- mikestew 9y agoSpecs say it includes a six foot power cord.
- simonk 9y agoPhoto above the comparison with a plug.
- cbhl 9y agoThis looks like a AC-powered clock form factor, and quick Amazon searches show that other AC-powered clocks also do not have power cords in the product photos. (In practice, the power cord would run down the back-side of a bedside table.)
- mkempe 9y agoWhat is the quality of the screen? exact circle, resolution, colors? and what is the angle of the camera?
- cur50r 9y agoWow. I'm sure every dev looked as this and thought. Dammm That's a lot of visual resizing and messing to get it to a circle display. There is a reason we don't have circle TVs
- ben174 9y agoI'm thinking this is the answer to the Echo Dot - for the Echo Show lines. The name makes it pretty obvious, as does the price point. These actually fill my needs better, since I don't need the fancy speakers and these look way slicker. The Echo Show is amazingly ugly. And this is a full $100 cheaper.
- nateguchi 9y agoAh, this reminds me of the Chumby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby) from 2008, I'm sure with voice recognition and video call capabilities, the Echo is hopefully a bit more useful.
- olympus 9y agoOne thing the Chumby had going for it was that it was pretty hackable. Had/has a small community around it. The Echo devices don't have that (AFAIK).
- bau5 9y agoDepends on what kind of hacking. 591 questions here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/alexa https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/alexa
- cptskippy 9y agoDoes it have a camera? I didn't see it mentioned in the specs or anything about video calling.
- danesparza 9y agoFrom the pics on the site, it appears to have one. One of the pics seems to indicate a video call scenario as well.
- ceejayoz 9y agoThe description says: > Call anyone hands-free, or make video calls to family and friends with an Echo Spot, Echo Show, or the Alexa App. Instantly connect to other Echo devices around your home.
- cptskippy 9y agoI see that now, I was on mobile and didn't expand the description. I went right for detailed specs which oddly lack any mention of the camera.
- ProfessorLayton 9y agoI snagged a free Echo Dot when Amazon accidentally had a 100% discount a few weeks ago (Which they honored!).Its an interesting piece of hardware (I wish I could say the same of the required setup app). Ultimately, I'm not too interested in using voice interfaces as they currently are. I'm not trying to knock the product, I feel the same about Siri and Google's assistant. Lots of improvements have been made, but its just not for me yet. At least it makes a good bluetooth receiver for my car, though it does whine to me about not having an internet connection at the beginning of every drive.
- maruhan2 9y ago100% discount they honored????! wutttttt
- bluthru 9y agoThis is much more aesthetically pleasing than the Show. I like it: a cute alarm clock from the future.