Page 1 of Echo Dot 3rd gen £8.98

Saw this posted on twitter.

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Valid only for new Amazon Music Unlimited customers who are Prime members. This bundle contains the Echo Dot (3rd Gen), Sandstone Fabric (List Price: £49.99, dispatched from and sold by Amazon EU Sarl) and 1 month of Amazon Music Unlimited (£7.99 value, sold by Amazon Digital UK Limited). After 1 month, your subscription will £7.99 per month. Cancel or change anytime
Basically, get a cheap Dot and as long as you cancel your Amazon Music sub, your Echo Dot effectively costs £9

Ordered! Thank you Alfie!

Only really ordered because someone might hack it to be useful to me.


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Looks like the link is dead now, and due to stupidity, I didn't order one last night thinking I'd do it today. So I missed out on my own bargain bucket post!

Still fighting shy of the whole Alexa/Siri/Google thingy.
I don't even use it on my phone and yes I'm aware it can listen to me anyway.

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"I don't even use it on my phone"
I sometimes use it in the car, but you have to manually trigger that. And for it to start listening at home you need to use the trigger words.

I mean, yeah your phone is technically always listening but it's not talking to Apple or Google until it is woken up.

Alexa and friends seem to be a little more active.

Anyway, I'll play with it for £9, and if someone manages to reverse engineer it enough to install their own bootloader I'll be doing that too!


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I remembered today after setting this up, that I'd read people on Hackaday playing with it for voice controlling things... that's something I'd play with!


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'Alexa block Brexit'

(Time passes)

'Alexa are you working'

'Yes I am fully functional'

'I've heard nothing for some time'

'You asked me to block Brexit'

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