An interesting read for a number of reasons, the most obvious being that Amazon has now opened it retail operations in Australia and the Fire TV sticks are one of the big promotion deals going around Amazon Australia right now. Personally speaking the amazon Fire doesn’t interest me much probably because I have enough video and TB service to share with the world right now so therefore I need another like I need a whole in the head - particularly if its not too accessible or useable -. Having said that however I am curious to know how the Kindel is going as I’ve heard very little in that area over the last year or so. Amazon Australia now sells the Kindle so - if accessibility is up there - I may very well buy one as I’m partial to a good tablet.
********** “For the gardener nothing is more handier than bulbs, I mean the 1’s you put in the ground and not the electric light 1’s.” > On 4 Dec 2017, at 11:34 pm, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good afternoon everybody > > Today I’ve had the opportunity to play with both the new Fire TV Pendant, and > also an Echo Show. The Fire TV belongs to yours truly, and the Echo Show to a > neighbour who asked me to set it up for her. > > In the event, it was a bit of an anticlimax. For reasons best known only unto > themselves, Amazon’s latest devices which are capable of playing video > content cannot be set up via the Alexa app, as can previous devices. Instead, > you have to use an on-screen menu system, (touch screen, in the case of the > Show). There is no other way to configure your WiFi settings. > > The Echo Show, once set up, works very similarly to the previous Echo and the > current Echo and Echo Plus series. For example, Have not yet discovered how, > or even if, you can turn on two-way Alexa responses, as you can with the > previous version of the Fire TV stick. I set up the Echo Show, played around > with it for a few minutes, then left her to learn how to drive it via video. > You can speak to it, but it doesn’t always respond in kind. Instead, it seems > to pop up video messages which, for a blind person, is pretty damned > hopeless. I am very glad that I reverted my previous decision to buy one. > > The Fire TV is something which, again, cannot be configured via the Alexa > app. Nor is there any other way of accomplishing this than with the Voice > Remote. You need to be able to see the thing in order to scroll down to the > required network, and enter the password. Once that is done, you have a few > minutes to wait while the device downloads and installs country-specific > firmware. > > I still need to play around with it further to establish how useable it will > be. If all else fails, I still have my old Fire TV stick. So I can soon swap > them back. > > More as I discover it. > > ======================================== > > My compliments and kindest regards > Gordon Smith: > <[email protected]> > Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. > > This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid > printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! > > Contact: > > • UK Free Phone: > 0800 8620538 > • UK Geographic / Global: > +44(0) 1642 688095 > • UK Mobile/SMS: > +44 (0)7804 983849 > • Vic. Australia: > +61 38 82059300 > • US/Canada: > +1 646 9151493 > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > > > > >
