Hi, Peter;
If you can afford the main Echo Unit, which costs approximately $179.00. I
think Amazon makes that available at a discounted price occasionally.
Perhaps they may have a July 4th sale, starting within the next week or so.
If you have a Prime account, you might be eligible for such a discount
whenever it's offered. I asked my Alexa if such a sale may be in place for
Prime members. Unfortunately, she didn't answer my question. She only made
this weird noise that sounds like Hmmm. Don't know why she does that.
Anyway, you can go to the Amazon site and probably write a slash followed by
Prime, or go to your account if you have one. It should say what sales
they're offering for the next few weeks. Good luck. Take care.
Lillian Way
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Peter,
If your desire is to have a replacement for a radio and if your finances
will allow it, you could consider an Echo Dot for around fifty dollars. With
an Echo you can just request a specific radio station and, more often than
not, have it played. Siri, much to my frustration, is currently unable to
access specific radio stations from apps such as Tunein Radio and OOtunes. I
also don't think that third-party apps like Reverb are able to play specific
radio stations. If buying another hardware device is not an option, then one
of the apps I mentioned on your iDevice will more than suffice for a radio;
you just won't be able to request a station with just your voice. Both
Tunein Radio and OOTunes are excellent apps, although OOTunes is my
favorite.
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On 6/22/2017 9:44 PM, Peter Donahue wrote:
Good evening David and everyone,
Yesterday we installed several Amazon Apps onto our iPhones.
So far Voiceover is working with them quite well. It works wonderful with
Amazon Prime Video. I briefly tested it with the Amazon Shopping App but
have yet to dive deeper into this app with Voiceover and Alexa. As folks up
here have said so far Alexa, Siri and Voiceover are playing together quite
well. Perhaps we'll add the Google Assistant into the mix to see how it
handles it. We have yet to install this crew onto our iPad Air 2. We're also
talking about adding an additional device so we can have all of our
entertainment in our kitchen. This is to replace a dead radio. Why just
settle for another radio when we can add another iPad or a Kindle device
allowing us to have all of our entertainment throughout the house? We'll
keep y'all posted on our progress with this gang. All the best.
Peter Donahue
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