- Amazon Echo Dot Gen4 - The latest smart speaker from Amazon
- Meet the all-new Echo Dot - Our most popular smart speaker with Alexa.
- The sleek, compact design delivers crisp vocals and balanced bass for full sound.
- Voice control your entertainment - Stream songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, SiriusXM, and others.
- Play music, audiobooks, and podcasts throughout your home with multi-room music.
- Ready to help - Ask Alexa to tell a joke, play music, answer questions, play the news, check the weather, set alarms, and more.
- Control your smart home - Use your voice to turn on lights, adjust thermostats, and lock doors with compatible devices.
- Connect with others - Call almost anyone hands-free.
- Instantly drop in on other rooms or announce to the whole house that dinner's ready.
- Designed to protect your privacy - Built with multiple layers of privacy protections and controls, including a microphone off button that electronically disconnects the microphones.
Steps to Setup the Amazon device
- Open the App and sign-in or register.
- Confirm your name and give Amazon the permissions.
- Fill in your telephone number
- Go to “add device” in the left-hand side menu bar (3 horizontal stripes)
- Choose the type of device and select the name of your device
- Plug the smart speaker in and keep the “dot” button pressed until the light of your amazon gets orange
- Follow the rest of the instructions on your Alexa app until it says “setup complete”
iOS devices that require the Amazon Alexa app:
1. Sign out of your current Apple ID via Settings
2. Open your App Store
3. Tap the account icon (top right corner)
4. Create new Apple ID
5. Select region as US
6. Change contact number to US
7. Download “TextNow” app
8. Sign up and select US location & number
9. Verify mobile number via phone call (NB) not text
10. Enter verification code for mobile number
11. Enter verification code for email (emailed to your apple ID email address)
12. Open the App Store
13. Search for Amazon Alexa app
14. Download the Amazon Alexa app
15. Create Amazon Alexa account
16. Sign in.
17. Voila