 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan and on this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos. If you like what you see, please do the thumbs up and consider subscribing. Thank you. Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of unboxing and brief review video and I'll be unboxing the Amazon Echo Dot which is the Amazon's version of artificially intelligence-powered home assistant or personal assistant system. So you can have actually different devices to access Amazon Alexa and this is just a device called Echo Dot and it's very lightweight, portable and handy and this is going to be my first time using Alexa. And I'm going to be showing you the initial setup and unboxing and how to set it up everything for the first time because this is my first time as well. Just to mention that on this channel I do travel videos, videos on credit card and some tech videos so I do a variety of videos not just videos on one topic. And if that interests you then please subscribe and watch the video because there will be a lot more interesting videos coming up in the future. So the first thing I would recommend you doing before even buying the Echo Dot or before even opening the box is to set up Amazon Alexa app on your smartphone. So in order to do that, it's very simple. You have to go to just the Google Play and you search for Alexa and then you're going to be, this is going to be most likely your first hit, Amazon Alexa and then once you install that then you have to set up the app. You can use the Amazon Alexa on your phone without having actually any device from Amazon or you don't have to buy anything. So you can use the device, the Amazon Alexa on phone but some of the features are blocked on phone. My understanding is that the purpose of blocking some of the features because no one is going to be buying the actual device if everything is available for free on phone. So for example, I'll show you just one, a few comments. Alexa, what is the wind chill right now? Wind chill is one degree. Tonight, expect it to feel like minus three degrees. Okay, so it's giving the temperature right now, or wind chill right now in Toronto which is correct and let's try opening, entering an entity in the calendar. Alexa, open my calendar. Okay, so let's try asking Amazon to do something which is blocked on phone. Alexa, work me up at 7 p.m. Alarms are not currently supported on this device. Okay, so some of the features are not available on the phone. Some of them are, but once you have that device, then everything is available. So that's what I want to show you. And then once you have the app, then you have all sorts of settings right here and then you're going to have to just pair your phone with your Echo Dot device with your home wireless network which I'll be showing you once I open up this. So for now, let's set aside the phone and let's start opening the Echo Dot So the box came like this, it's literally just a wrapper on top of the original box so I'll just open up this one here. Okay, so this is the original box and you can see that it has some of the items or programs available for Canadians on this site. For example, the Globe and Mail, CBC, Spotify, Amazon Music, Radio Player. And then there's some information here and it mentions here that, you know, you can use Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or audio line out which we're going to be looking at. So let's open this box up and look at the device for the first time. Okay, so this is our device. Let me just put it here for now. Let me just take a look if there's anything else inside the box. Okay, so we have the power cable or power adapter and looks like that's all we have here. The box is empty. Okay, so we have a small brochure. So this is going to be, you know, I can go through these if you're interested and then looks like we have another brochure which is the Terms and Conditions. And then we have some of the suggestions you can try with your Echo Dot. For example, enjoy your favorite music, questions, stay organized, voice control, news, weather and traffic, stay connected and shopping. Okay, so I'm not going to be going through all these. Let's open up our actual device. So this is what we are looking at and let me just open up this wrapper right here. So here's the actual device. Here we have the volume up and down button and then here we have the mute button so Alexa cannot hear you and then here we have the command button. So instead of saying Alexa, I believe you can just press this and then, you know, give you a command and then we have a 3.5 output right here. So you can connect this to another Bluetooth or another speaker. And then we have the power cable in and it looks like this is the DC input right here. So this is Echo Dot 3. On Echo Dot, there is to be a micro USB but now they change it to the regular DC for power. And then there's a fabric covered rim on this side. And then on the back of the device, there's just the Amazon logo and some information model number. So the first thing I can tell you just by holding the piece in my hand that it has that premium feeling and you can, you know, you have the feeling that this is not cheap or this is a good quality product. Although it's not expensive, this is a very inexpensive product. Right now it's on sale on Amazon for 40 Canadian which has continued from the boxing debt. They haven't increased the price yet. So here it looks like there are some holes for microphones or audio input. So Alexa can hear you. And then here there's on the edge of the round device is where you're going to see the light once you start giving Alexa comments. Comments or start the device for the first time. So that's all for unboxing. So what I'm going to do, I'll just put it in power and then I'll show you what happens and how you can set up for the first time. So I'm going to change move my camera. So just give me a second and then we'll start the next part. Okay, so I set up the power. So the output is right here and I'm going to just insert the power into the DC input and let's see what happens here. Something I forgot to mention the back of the device is some sort of like, you know, rubbery. It's supposed to hold onto the surface. So for example, I put it here and if I'm just trying to, you know, pressing it with this little force, it's not moving. So just, you know, supposed to stick it to its place. And that's a good feature. So let's insert the power and see what happens here. Okay, so as you can see the light, the rim light is blue and looks like Alexa is trying to start. And I'm going to just wait and see what happens because I don't want to cut anything. So you can get the full uncut version of how to set up for the first time. I can see here that the light is changing, but it's still circling. So let's see what happens next. Hello, your device is ready for setup. Just download the Alexa app and follow the instructions. Bonjour, votre appareil est prêt pour la configuration. Télécharge l'application Alexa et suivez les instructions. Okay, so it's giving me both English and French and asking me to set up on the app. So I already have the app. I'm going to, you know, show you what I'm supposed to do on the app. And we can see that it's still circling, but the light is yellowish now. So let's open up Alexa on the app and see what happens. Okay, so I have my Alexa right here. And I'm going to see. Okay, so it's just giving me the regular message and I can see that. Let me just take a look here. Okay, so I don't see anything on the app detecting the Alexa device or Echo Dot. So I'm going to just, you know, go here and click on add setting, which is right here. Okay, so it's asking for what type of device you're setting up. And I'm going to choose Amazon Echo, but you can see a bunch of devices right here. So you can like, you know, set up basically all of these devices, but I'm going to click on Amazon Echo. And then it's asking me whether this is an Echo or Echo Dot or anything else. So and also it's giving me an option to skip setup. So if I skip here, my understanding is that the device is going to pick up Echo Dot by itself, but I'm not going to do that. I'll just click on Echo Dot. Okay, so now it's giving me third or second or first generation Echo Dot. And again, we have the skip setup option, but I'm going to click on third generation. Okay, now it's saying to turn on Bluetooth, navigate to Bluetooth settings and allow the connection to set up your device and skip or skip Bluetooth. I don't use Bluetooth that much. So I'm going to just, you know, I skip Bluetooth and it's doing something. So let's see what happens now. Okay, begin Echo Dot setup. Okay, so continue. Wait for the orange light. Okay, so it's telling you to plug it into an electrical socket and wait for the orange light. But we do have the orange light right now, so I'll just press continue. And then we'll see what happens here. I heard a noise there. You've connected. Now go back to the Alexa app. Okay, so. Retournez maintenant dans l'application Alexa. Okay, so it's giving me to mention that it has been connected and to continue. So I'll just hit continue. And let's see what happens here. Okay, so it's asking to choose Wi-Fi network. So these networks, actually, they're all mine. So let's just, you know, press the first one. And it's asking for a password. So let me just enter the password. Okay, so once I enter the password, it's showing here that preparing your Echo Dot and it's going to take a few minutes. So let's see what happens here. And the yellow light is still on. So it's just doing its work. Your device is ready. Okay, so it looks like it's done here. So let's hit continue, which is right here. So it's asking to connect if I want to connect an external speaker to your Echo Dot. And it looks like it's picking up all the devices. So I'm going to just, you know, skip that. And where is your Echo Dot? So it looks like to keep your devices organized, plus your Echo Dot in a group. So I don't have actually any group. So just hit continue or skip, skip. Okay, so they are playing a short video to just like, you know, give me. Welcome to your new Echo Alexa to any room. Use your voice to check and use the weather. And I have a feeling that, you know, that's it. So let's see what happens next. And we'll try talking to Alexa right now. Alexa, what is the news? Here's your flash briefing from CTV News. Here are the top stories. Hello, I'm Marcia McMillan from the CTV Newsroom in Toronto. Here are the top stories. Cancel. Canada's ambassador to China. Alexa, cancel. Okay, so it canceled. You can set up various things. So for you, for me, I set up like, you know, my news to be picked up from CBC, CTV, or, you know, news outlets like that. But you can set up other things and then you can set up a whole bunch of things which you have to do on the app. And but this is the initial basic setup. And then let me just quickly show you something else here. So for example, when you go to the list reminder and alarm, contact, routine, things to try, skills and games. So you can set up a whole lot of things. And then there's the settings right here. And if you click on that, then it's going to give you like, you know, basic traffic, sports calendar and all sort of stuff. So once you open that app, then it gives you some recommendation on the main screen and you can add these recommendation. You can link your calendar and you can say, let's say, Alexa started my day and then you can create a routine, create a shopping list. So you have a whole bunch of things you can try. And for today, this is all. I'm going to just ask Alexa something else to see if, you know, it can link my, it can read from a calendar because I already linked my calendar on the app before. Alexa, what's on my calendar? Here are the next three events on Sunday, January 27th. There's flight to Dubai at 242. Alexa, stop. Okay. So it can pick up from my calendar or from my event, anything. Let's try just if it can give me a reminder. Alexa, remind me after 10 seconds. What's the reminder for? Nothing. Okay. I'll remind you in 10 seconds. Okay. We're waiting. I'm reminding you. Nothing. Okay. So it looks like it's working. And just mention, notice that, you know, I got the same reminder on my phone too. I'm reminding you. Nothing. Okay. So it looks like it keeps playing the reminder. It played two times. I'm not sure if it's going to play again, but if it does so, then you have to just, you know, tell it to stop or cancel. Then it's going to stop doing that. So these are the basic setups for Alexa. And in the future. Okay. Looks like it's coming up again. Sorry. I don't know that. Alexa, cancel. Okay. So it should stop reminding me. Now in the future, I plan to do more videos on Alexa tips, tricks, and other stuff. So subscribe. And if you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and there will be more videos coming up. So I'll see you shortly. Thank you.