Read more: What can Alexa do? The best Alexa skills and commandsĪnd this is where we come to the privacy concerns. The company has yet to announce anything in the way of a mesh Echo, but it does now own mesh startup eero – and the work with Qualcomm means that manufacturers using the chipmaker’s standard, including Netgear and Asus, can bring Alexa to their routers. Turn those into mini routers and you’ll knock two birds with one Dot.
Why have two small pucks when you can combine them into one? The Echo Dot, for example, is already designed to be affordable enough for several to be plonked throughout your home. If you put an Echo device in the bedroom, bathroom, etc, you get a Wi-Fi performance boost for free.”įrom an ease of access point of view, combining a router with Alexa functionality makes sense. “If you buy a next generation Echo and it automatically extends the Wi-Fi for you as part of the setup, I think that's a really strong proposition. “Home networking is essential infrastructure for the connected home.”īut is Amazon looking to go one step further, combining its own mesh routers with its own smart speakers? “To me it seems the obvious way of, apart from anything else, stealing the march from Google,” says Graham-Smith. “It’s no surprise that the tech giants like Google, Amazon and Samsung have moved into this product category,” says Brad Russell, research director at consulting company Parks Associates.
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