Amazon’s Echo Show 10 is a cool gadget for its ability to move with you while you stream videos and make calls to friends and family. But for a smart display whose every reason to be your support for these uses, the Echo Show an important application used universally during the pandemic was missing: Zoom.
When Gizmodo revised the Echo Show 10 last month, a spokesman said at the time that support for Zoom was “coming soon”. That support has finally arrived, making it a very good good gadget. Customers with the third generation Echo Show 10 can now request Alexa to participate in Zoom or Amazon Chime meetings using commands such as, “Alexa, join my meeting”, “Alexa, join my Zoom meeting” or “Alexa, join my Amazon Chime meeting”.
Echo Show 10 can start meetings hands-free, once your calendar has been linked via the Alexa app (which is like support for some other services, like music apps, also works). Amazon says that its voice assistant “will automatically start your scheduled meeting entirely without using your hands, without the need for your meeting ID or password – just confirm the title of the meeting you want to join.”
The zoom was a big blind spot on the device, given the way it should be used, so support on Echo Show 10 is welcome. The only other major flaw in the device, however, was support for a greater number of streaming applications.
A dedicated YouTube app, for example, would be a minimal addition to the current limited line of Echo Show 10 streaming apps, which include Food Network Kitchen, Happy TV, Hulu, NBC, Netflix, Prime Video, Redbull TV and Tubi. Currently, it can be accessed through a web browser, but a dedicated app would be useful for things like picking up where you left off in a video.
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At a minimum, you can now call your family using the blocking videoconference app of choice.