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Get This Deal:http://ift.tt/2jJYAJh That's almost certainly why we have a second-gen Amazon Echo Dot. With the price slashed to a near-absurd $50 (or £50 in the UK, where Alexa launched just last month), Amazon's goal is obvious -- get its virtual voice assistant into as many homes as possible now, before people have other options. That means that the Dot is designed to sell, sell, sell. And to step all over the arrival of Google Home. also see : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEIC5TdsQgg&list=PL1eiFfSd5dOjRWMB0focfZyLNbtfotZPI Not that it needed much help. The original Echo Dot, launched just last March as a pint-sized follow-up to the surprise smash-hit Amazon Echo smart speaker, was by all accounts just as successful as its predecessor. It sold out quicker than even Amazon had anticipated and won rave reviews, including an Editors' Choice distinction here on CNET. Now, after being out of stock for months, the Dot is back, and more affordable than ever. (It isn't available in Australia, but were you to import one the price converts to about AU$65.) It's just as smart as before, too, with all of the same Alexa tricks along with plenty of new ones thanks to a rapidly growing library of third-party voice app "skills." And, despite the lower cost, it's an even better performer than the first generation, with microphones that do a better job of hearing your voice commands over music playback or background noise. British skills include UK services like Sky News, The Guardian and National Rail as well as control of the British Gas smart home system Hive. Unfortunately, you can't filter skills by nationality in the Alexa app so British Echo owners have to scroll through irrelevant US skills to find ones that work in the UK. more about amazon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI854PZP2BY In other words, the already-great Echo Dot got a compromise-free price cut. It was an Editors' Choice-winner back in March -- now, it's close to a must-buy for just about anyone who's reading this. "Alexa" is Amazon's cloud-connected, voice-activated virtual assistant. She's Siri in a speaker. You wake her up by saying her name, or by saying one of your two other wake word options, "Amazon" or "Echo." The array of microphones inside of the Echo Dot is always listening, and when they hear the wake word, they'll record whatever you say next and send it off through the cloud to Amazon's servers. Those servers will figure out what you're asking for, then tell Alexa how to respond. All of this happens in about a second. You can ask Alexa to do all sorts of things. For starters, she can stream music from Amazon Prime Music, Pandora, or Spotify. She can can play podcasts from iHeartRadio or TuneIn. She can set kitchen timers. She can look up facts. She can wake you up in the morning. She can tell your kids painfully bad jokes. She can read off the day's headlines from whatever news sources you like (including, ahem, CNET). On top of that, Alexa keeps getting smarter thanks to an increasingly robust market of third-party voice apps called "skills." There are over 3,000 of them at this point, and each one teaches Alexa a new trick. The Uber and Lyft skills let you tell Alexa to call you a ride. The Capital One skill lets you tell Alexa to make a credit card payment. The Domino's skill lets you tell Alexa to order a pizza. A skill called The Wayne Investigation lets you talk your way through an interactive mystery set in Gotham City. You can browse through them all in the Alexa app, then pick which ones you want to enable. You can also just ask Alexa to turn one on by saying something like, "Alexa, enable the Jeopardy skill." And, as of now, none of them cost anything. More info here: http://ift.tt/2cMUvUE contact us: Facebook : http://ift.tt/1TzXvO7 Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/Dealshoppingonline google plus : http://ift.tt/2gMhIDV tumbler: http://ift.tt/2hmLEK8 twitter: https://twitter.com/onedaydealshop linkedin : http://ift.tt/2i7aYSZ pinterest : http://ift.tt/2hmJhXx about.me : http://ift.tt/2i7kntO Contact : contact@deal-shop.com subscribe now : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn8sk-thp8ugxQfuNh2bDw?sub_confirmation=1 #electronics #technology #tech #TagsForLikes #electronic #device #gadget #gadgets #instatech #instagood #geek #techie #echo_dot #dot #amazon_echo_dot #amazon_dot #amazon_echo_review #google_home_review #amazon_reviews #amazon_echo_reviews #amazon_echo_app #amazon_review #echo_dot_review #amazon_echo_dot_review #echo_dot_2_review #echo_dot_2nd_generation_review #review_echo_dot #echo_dot_price #echo_dot_speaker #speaker_for_echo_dot #what_is_echo_dot #echo_dot_sold_out #difference_between_echo_and_echo_dot #what_is_an_echo_dot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKWXiTwr5fM