
It can juggle shared calendars as well, in case you need to coordinate with your partner's comings and goings. There's more to Echo than commerce though! Want to know what your schedule looks like? Echo can link with your Google calendar just ask what events are coming. Amazon Prime members can even order eligible items ("Alexa, buy some toothpaste"). That it's slightly fancy, though, works to its advantage it's the kind of gift that says, as the iPad did before it, I care enough about you to spend real money, just not on anything necessarily specific to your needs.Īs you might expect, you can use Echo to create a to-do list and (surprise!) shopping list. So it's not the type of thing you'll want to bring to Yankee Swap. It's $180, with no announced Black Friday deal yet ( Update: It'll be 30 bucks off until Dec 1st). This alone makes it ideal for anyone who enjoys making noise or bossing around inanimate objects, and we haven't even gotten to the fun parts yet.īefore we enumerate the Echo's manifold wonders, it's healthy to address two potential concerns.
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If you're unfamiliar, the Echo is a cylindrical Bluetooth speaker that listens when you talk to it.

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