I mostly use it to ask it the weather forecast and control my Hue lights (Alexa, turn on the living room lights, dim the office lights to 50% percent, etc).
Rather unexpected, I find I like to ask it to tell me jokes too. it has a rather large library of particularly terrible jokes that I like :)
The shopping list feature is nice when trying to keep things paperless (or at least, I never find my notes). It's now possible to have IFTTT email you the list when you ask what's on your list.
As a bluetooth speaker, I don't find myself using it a whole lot, but has a wide range of options from TuneIn to IHeartRadio and there is a lot on Amazon streaming too.
I'm looking forward to seeing them add new features and they come out with new features about every single month.
It's not the most neccessary thing by any means, but it is a nice step towards Jetson-land and it's fun to have around.
It also learns voices better over time and has a nice "training" app in the phone app I'd suggest using 3-4 times. Neat stuff.
Oh - Alexa support is super awesome, most questions get answered by real humans super fast, and then they implement some of those things!
I mostly use it to ask it the weather forecast and control my Hue lights (Alexa, turn on the living room lights, dim the office lights to 50% percent, etc).
Rather unexpected, I find I like to ask it to tell me jokes too. it has a rather large library of particularly terrible jokes that I like :)
The shopping list feature is nice when trying to keep things paperless (or at least, I never find my notes). It's now possible to have IFTTT email you the list when you ask what's on your list.
As a bluetooth speaker, I don't find myself using it a whole lot, but has a wide range of options from TuneIn to IHeartRadio and there is a lot on Amazon streaming too.
I'm looking forward to seeing them add new features and they come out with new features about every single month.
It's not the most neccessary thing by any means, but it is a nice step towards Jetson-land and it's fun to have around.
It also learns voices better over time and has a nice "training" app in the phone app I'd suggest using 3-4 times. Neat stuff.
Oh - Alexa support is super awesome, most questions get answered by real humans super fast, and then they implement some of those things!