Amazon Discount Online Echo 4th Gen Smart Speaker with Alexa

Product Info

The Echo 4th Generation Smart Speaker with Alexa combines premium sound, a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, and a temperature sensor. Powerful speakers deliver clear highs, dynamic mids, and deep bass for rich, detailed sound that adapts to any room. Just ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, make calls, and tell you the news, sports scores, weather, and more. The built-in smart home hub lets you easily set up and manage dozens of smart devices that use Zigbee. Just power on compatible lights, plugs, sensors, and locks and say, “Alexa, discover my devices.” The hub also works with select Ring Smart Lighting solar lights and bulbs.

• Premium sound  — Echo delivers clear highs, dynamic mids, and deep bass for rich, detailed sound that automatically adapts to any room
• Use your voice to control your entertainment — stream songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, SiriusXM, and more, plus, listen to radio stations, podcasts, and Audible audiobooks
• Ready to help — ask Alexa to play music, answer questions, play the news, check the weather, set alarms, control compatible smart home devices, and more
• Smart home made simple — with the built-in hub, easily set up compatible Zigbee devices or select Ring Smart Lighting solar lights and bulbs to voice control compatible smart lights, locks, and sensors
• Fill your home with sound — with multi-room music, play synchronised music across connected Echo devices in different rooms, or pair your Echo with compatible Fire TV devices to feel scenes come to life with home theatre audio
• Stay connected with with your people — 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 controls including a mic off button
• Make Alexa kid-friendly — turn on parental controls with Amazon Kids (FreeTime), right in the Alexa app. Alexa will automatically give kid-friendly responses, filter explicit songs, block shopping, and let kids call approved contacts. Parents can also set time limits and review activity

How to set up your Echo:

• Before setup, download or update the Alexa app in your mobile device app store (as per below instructions)
• Plug in your device
• Open the Alexa app
• Open More and select Add Device
• Select Amazon Echo
• Select Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Plus and more
• Follow the instructions to set up your device

Step-by-step guide to setup the Amazon device on Android:

1. Open the App and sign in or register
2. Confirm your name and grant Amazon permission
3. Fill in your telephone number
4. Go to Add Device in the left-hand side menu bar (3 horizontal stripes)
5. Choose the type of device and select the name of your device
6. Plug the smart speaker in and keep the Dot button pressed until the light of your Amazon Echo goes orange
7. Follow the rest of the instructions on your Alexa app until it says Setup Complete

Step-by-step guide for setting up Amazon Alexa on IOS devices:

1. Sign out of Apple ID via settings
2. Open App Store
3. Tap the account icon (top right)
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 and number
9. Verify mobile number via phone call not text
10. Enter verification code for mobile number
11. Enter verification code for email (emailed to your Apple ID email address)
12. Enter App Store
13. Search for Amazon Alexa app
14. Download
15. Create Amazon Alexa account
16. Sign in and connect to your Amazon device
17. Sign out of US Apple ID and back into your original Apple ID

Will Alexa work with everything in my house?

No. Amazon Echo and Alexa-enabled products will only work with specific compatible devices. So, you’ll need to install (or identify whether you already have) compatible lights, door locks, cameras, coffee machines and more.

About Amazon Alexa App Download

As Smart Home technology is still a developing industry in our country, the Alexa mobile app is not currently available for download in South African app stores. There is a way around this, though, that will allow you to set up your Amazon device on either IOS or Android. Simply follow this step-by-step guide to get started.

What’s in the box? 

• 1 x Echo (4th Generation)
• 1 x Power adapter (30W)
• 1 x Quick Start Guide

Specifications

• Dimensions: 14.4cm x 14.4cm x 13.3cm
• Weight: 970g (actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process)

Technical specs

• Wifi connectivity:
  • Dual-band wifi supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 and 5 GHz) networks
  • Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) wifi networks

• Bluetooth connectivity:
  • Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo or from Echo to your Bluetooth speaker
  • Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices
  • Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS X devices
  • Direct control of BLE Mesh
  • Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported

• Audio: 
  • 3.0” (76.2mm) neodymium woofer 
  • Two 0.8” (20mm) tweeters

• Alexa app is compatible with the following devices:
  • Fire OS
  • Android
  • iOS

• Accessibility features:
  • The Alexa app and Alexa-enabled products include several features for customers with accessibility needs related to vision, hearing, mobility, and speech

• Setup technology:
  • Amazon wifi simple setup enables customers to connect smart devices to their wifi network in a few easy steps

• Privacy features and concerns:
  • Wake word technology, streaming indicators, microphone off button, the ability to view and delete your voice recordings, and more
  • Alexa and Echo devices are built with multiple layers of privacy protection
  • Echo smart speakers have a microphone off button that electronically disconnects the microphones
  • You also have control over your voice recordings and can view, hear, or delete them at any time

• Languages: 
  • English
  • Spanish

• Materials:
  • 50% post-consumer recycled plastics
  • 100% post-consumer recycled fabric

• Packaging:
  • 99% of this device’s packaging is made of wood fibre-based materials from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources

Care Instructions

• Keep dust free, do not submerge in water

Warranty Info

• This product comes with a 6 month warranty