Comments on an echo post but doesn't have an echo.... or want one...

No. This is Alexa.

I like the fact Amazon's price matched their own stuff :smile:

Oh I dunno I found a few uses for the echo

- hands free music whilst cooking
- recipes
- reminders, timers
- daily briefing (quite like that)
- controlling my house heating
- controlling lights
- controlling TV, amp, media center
- shopping... :wink:

Of course it's subjective but yes I actually own one - and I've got two dots too. As part of an integrated smart home I think they're wonderful - although I'd say if you don't want the speaker the dot is a much better buy. Note also (versus your phone) the microphone array is far more sensitive and works well even in a noisy room. The echo is just part of the IOT to me - but it is quite wonderful popping off to bed with "Alexa, turn off the living room", glass of water and phone in either hand, and the lights, amp, tv, MC all dutifully shut down.

I like Cortana and OK, Google but this is very different to me. YMMV.

so blurb and marketing aside.. are these actually any good? is the 360 sound really immersive and worth the price? :-)

LOL, snap on the £99 deal. I also however bought into Sonos in the last couple of weeks and am absolutely loving it, so looking forward to the integration. I'm probably flipping between the two about 50:50 at the moment.

My granddaughter was round at the weekend and I had loaded the 'Open the Magic Door' skill and she absolutely loved it. Moments like that are priceless.

No problem. I have an echo when they released them at £99 and have recently bought some chromecast audios when they were £15 to see what multi room is like. I find I'm not using the echo as much as I thought I would but probably need to spend some time finding out what it can do. The chromecast audios do the actual multi-sync audio very well however I find the cast/control aspect very clunky. It will be interesting to see what the google stuff will be like when released as logically their search stuff should be better than amazons. I also wonder whether they will release a dot equivalent.

Competition is all good in this space and it will be interesting where things go.

Isnt it just siri?

Hadn't realised that, so cheers.

They haven't been released in the UK yet so that's an import and may or may not work over here. I'd expect them to be around the £130 mark when they are released.

People are so use to techcrap these days they've forgotten what a good sound system sounds like.

Oh good, I ordered on a few days ago but it hasn't arrived as yet. I did have the boom evolution but found it very poor for a £150 speaker (at the time).

Hot but I spent my savings on a set of pans a little earlier :disappointed:

The dot has been reduced to £44.99 as well and not as good as the £39.99 on BF obvs.

Does anyone had any info on whether Amazon are going to make these do multi-room audio/sync? I'm still holding out for google to release their home speaker over here which does and also integrates with chromecast audio.

Brilliant speaker but unfortunately no longer £29.99. I have bought two of them and they are superb, and at that price they were an absolute steal.

"But has read up on reviews of them...."

So nothing original of use to share then...

Perhaps when you've actually had one, you might have a comment worth sharing.

Oh I dunno I found a few uses for the echo

- hands free music whilst cooking
- recipes
- reminders, timers
- daily briefing (quite like that)
- controlling my house heating
- controlling lights
- controlling TV, amp, media center
- shopping... :wink:

Of course it's subjective but yes I actually own one - and I've got two dots too. As part of an integrated smart home I think they're wonderful - although I'd say if you don't want the speaker the dot is a much better buy. Note also (versus your phone) the microphone array is far more sensitive and works well even in a noisy room. The echo is just part of the IOT to me - but it is quite wonderful popping off to bed with "Alexa, turn off the living room", glass of water and phone in either hand, and the lights, amp, tv, MC all dutifully shut down.

I like Cortana and OK, Google but this is very different to me. YMMV.

If you've got a well connected home (Tado/Nest/Hue/Lightwave/etc, etc) and have Prime these are amazing.

Although the voice recognition seems similar to Google or Siri, it's actually a vastly different interaction proposition.

Dot + speaker may be better for some. To be honest, this month I've tried a few (e.g. Anker at £33) but I'm not happy with the quality, so it creeps up to the £100 mark. That said, you can repurpose a Bluetooth speaker in the future.

I haven't got an argument because I have one and it does much more that a phone.. You don't have one but have looked at reviews.. haven't seen any positive reviews then?

Oh dear. Doesn't have argument - so switches to knee-jerk "troll!!" mode. Nevermind then...:smirk:

You just carry on trolling

But has read up on reviews of them....
Do you want to tell that to the other person who thinks the same? You know, all things being equal and all that...

Comments on an echo post but doesn't have an echo.... or want one...

Agreed.

There's few of these pointless items around at the moment too, with Nuimo being the worst. It controls your Sonos volume and can skip tracks but you need your phone to change albums and everything else. It also need to be paired via bluetooth to your phone. And they charge you at least £130 for the pleasure!

Idiots gadgets IMHO.

Just get a dot and a better speaker

I like the fact Amazon's price matched their own stuff :smile: