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07-29-2016, 05:44 PM
11 useful things you didn't k**w your Amazon Echo could do
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When the Amazon*Echo (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/mashable.com/category/amazon-echo?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)*debuted, it could only only play music, tell you the weather, set alarms and timers, read news flashes, tell corny jokes, add things to your Amazon shopping list, tell you the weather and recite basic trivia. Cool tricks, all, but **thing spectacular.
The Echo's Alexa (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/mashable.com/category/alexa?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) voice assistant was a cool look at how voice commands could control the home.
SEE ALSO: Amazon's Alexa can lock your front door if you own this smart lock (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/alexa-august-smart-lock-integration/)
Today, the Echo family **w is **w a family of three. Including the*Echo (http://mashable.com/2015/02/10/amazon-echo-review/), there's also the*Echo Dot (http://blueprint:[email protected]/mashable.com/2016/04/16/amazon-echo-dot-review/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) and Tap (http://mashable.com/2016/04/05/amazon-tap-review/).*
With the power of Alexa, an open API and and a willingness by third-party companies to get their smart devices to work with the Echo products, Amazon's magical tube devices have become more feature-packed than when it launched. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/29/11-cool-things-amazon-echo-can-do/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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When the Amazon*Echo (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/mashable.com/category/amazon-echo?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)*debuted, it could only only play music, tell you the weather, set alarms and timers, read news flashes, tell corny jokes, add things to your Amazon shopping list, tell you the weather and recite basic trivia. Cool tricks, all, but **thing spectacular.
The Echo's Alexa (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/mashable.com/category/alexa?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) voice assistant was a cool look at how voice commands could control the home.
SEE ALSO: Amazon's Alexa can lock your front door if you own this smart lock (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/alexa-august-smart-lock-integration/)
Today, the Echo family **w is **w a family of three. Including the*Echo (http://mashable.com/2015/02/10/amazon-echo-review/), there's also the*Echo Dot (http://blueprint:[email protected]/mashable.com/2016/04/16/amazon-echo-dot-review/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) and Tap (http://mashable.com/2016/04/05/amazon-tap-review/).*
With the power of Alexa, an open API and and a willingness by third-party companies to get their smart devices to work with the Echo products, Amazon's magical tube devices have become more feature-packed than when it launched. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/29/11-cool-things-amazon-echo-can-do/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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