Echo Show 10 |A whole show!|The press
We can find it worrying or madly fun, but one thing is certain: the Echo Show 10, a vocal assistant whose screen follows you by turning on its basis, is a whole gadget.Well, its teleconference capacities are limited and its movements are sometimes unhealthy, but Amazon delivers the best smart screen here on the market.
Publié le 21 mars 2021Karim Benessaieh La PresseWE love
For the third generation of his Echo Show, this intelligent speaker to which a 10.1-inch touch pad, Amazon has decided to hit hard.The screen turns silently on 360 degrees so that you always have it before your eyes, wherever you are in the room.Depending on the parameters chosen, it can follow you at any time, only when you challenge it or never.
One has the impression of having a cousin of R2-D2 permanently in the room.Creepy ? Yes a bit.But the visual information that allows him to follow you remain in the device and is not sent to an external server, assures Amazon.And if you are skeptical, a plastic cover unfolds in front of the camera with a small button on the top.
So what does it give, a screen that moves?It is not of a stunning utility, but it is well thought out.You are constantly in front of you the outside time and temperature, and all the information scrolling in burst on this Echo Show.We find in particular the weather for the next few days, advice to use the Vocal Alexa assistant, the next appointments at the agenda, the album covers that you listen to on Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music, as well asOur favorite option, "that day", which shows you your photos taken on the same day in previous years.
For the storage of photos, we have free access to 5 GB on the Amazon servers.Prime subscribers have an unlimited space.As for personal videos, we cannot have them play on the Echo Show.
Very positive note: Alexa is compatible with three types of calendars: Google, Microsoft and Apple.Google, since its beginnings, has been pretending to accept only its homemade agenda.
Any response from Alexa to a request appears in writing on the screen.Ask what is the capital of Mongolia and you will see a photo, its population and the local currency.
If you have a ring bell, you can see at any time, or when someone rings, what's going on in your entrance.
You can also use it to watch movies or series on Netflix and videos on YouTube.It is easy to call someone by ordering their name, title ("mom", for example), or by giving your full number.Contacts come from your phone, by the Alexa application.
If the experience tells you, you can also put it in the kitchen and ask him to display a recipe.From the Marmiton service, he will guide you step by step, ingredients until cooking, with supporting photos.
You can also call by videoconference another owner of Echo Show or use Skype.A funny function: the 13 megapixel camera will make an automatic zoom so that you fill the screen.Other videoconferencing tools, including Zoom and Teams, are not accessible.
It can also be used as a surveillance camera.From the Alexa application on her phone, we will then see everything in the visual field of the Echo Show and we can make it move to cover a larger space.
The other aspect that has been considerably improved is the sound quality of this cylindrical speaker, which diffuses in all directions with a very deep bass.Nothing to do here with the sound "cacanne" of the competitor at Google - which has other qualities, let's just be.
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Let's stay with the example of Google, which also released the same type of product in 2019, the Nest Hub, but without camera.Easy to understand this choice: intelligent speakers are already afraid of the worst in terms of confidentiality without adding an electronic eye to them.Echo Show has a camera, for better and for worse.We can block it mechanically, of course, but we do not buy such a gadget to deactivate it.And there are rooms in the house where you won't want to have it.
The monitoring of the movement is far from being completely to the point.He first needs a strong light.Then, for a mysterious reason, the screen sometimes ceases to follow us.It must then be challenged aloud to turn to us.Aloud, because we found that our echo show 10 was often hard of the sheet and seemed to have difficulty hearing us.
One buys ?
In three weeks of testing, this funny little robot with its souvenir photos, its sound quality and its very useful display has become our favorite assistant on the desktop.It is not perfect and we understand that he can be disturbing, but it is a well -designed device, with a voice assistant adapted to Quebec.
Sacred gadget.
Echo Show 10 (3e génération)
Manufacturer: Amazonprix: $ 329.99 Note: 4.5 out of 5