The Amazon Alexa franchise had another eventful holiday season with the Echo Dot and Echo smart speakers once again among the top selling device.

Alexa had intermittent outages in Europe on Christmas morning.

The Alexa app again tops the free app charts in the iOS App Store and Google Play.Amazon Echo Dot was the top selling product on for the third straight year.or with the Amazon Alexa App's intuitive interface.

Now you can stream all of your music, listen to radio stations, and have access to news and information, all by voice. Connect to your home's Wi-Fi network using the free Amazon Alexa App, with its simple guided setup. The Amazon Alexa App lets you easily manage your alarms, music, shopping lists, and more. Interactions with devices with Alexa are automatically mirrored visually on your Amazon Alexa App, providing more information as you want it. The more you use Alexa, the more she adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences. Alexa's brain is in the cloud, so she continually learns and adds more functionality over time. Alexa is always ready to play your favorite music, provide weather and news updates, answer questions, create lists, and much more. For Alexa device owners, the free Amazon Alexa App is a companion to your Alexa device for setup, remote control, and enhanced features. Calling and messaging are available to customers with iPhones on iOS 9.0 or later. For example, you can drop in to let the family know it's time for dinner, see the baby's nursery, or check in with a close relative. You can also enable a new feature called Drop In for the special cases when you want to connect with your closest friends and family. Make video calls to friends and family who have an Echo Show or the Alexa App. When you're away from home, use the app to make a quick call or send a message to your family's Echo. With the Alexa App, conversations and contacts go where you go. In addition to managing your devices with Alexa, the updated Alexa App lets you call and message Amazon Echo and Echo Dot owners, and anyone else with the Alexa App on their phones.

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