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Capture of a Facebook Live as Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ unpacked and unboxed the new second generation Amazon Echo 2, complete with embarrassing gaffes [tip: it's not battery powered]. Is the second generation of the Amazon Echo worth the upgrade from the first version? Well, it's a bit soon to tell.
This is also an experiment on my part, so please do let me know what you think of the video / audio quality, etc.
Amazon Echo 2nd Gen: http://amzn.to/2z89lNy
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all right Dave Taylor here and I'm live
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with you because I got a new Amazon echo
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- what I should say is I hope that's
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what's in this box from Amazon let me
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pull out my knife and let's find out
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so Amazon echo - why would I get the new
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Amazon echo - I don't know I got the
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Amazon echo I have this Sonos Wan I have
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the Google home gotta keep up gotta keep
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buying new stuff right that's what we do
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as consumers so let's open this up and
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give it a look
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supposed to derive yesterday but there
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was some sort of shipping hiccup always
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have a knife very handy now it is indeed
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the Amazon echo - well that's a good
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thing so it was in the shipping box so
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we're doing layers of unboxing now you
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can see here there it is the Amazon echo
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2nd generation device so it does not
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need my knife Amazon has planned ahead
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so I can do this
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and you ready it was in the box no it is
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not in the box
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ah can you hear the heavenly choir sing
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and take it off pretty nice looking
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units of perspective way and here it is
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this is the second generation unit you
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can see here's the front with the Amazon
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logo it's very subtle and the top has
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the four buttons that you're used to and
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make it even closer and so you're seeing
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volume up and down and the microphone
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mute which is a handy feature and a
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power on and off button and on the edge
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let's see on the edge here we have power
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in and we have something new on Amazon
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which is an aux out which has a little
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rubber seal if you can see it very well
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there but there's a little aux so you
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can plug different things in and use
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this speaker
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now generally Amazon does a good job of
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sending things out pre-configured for
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your account so let's see what happens
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when I turn it on come on echo maybe not
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maybe the unboxing unboxing is slightly
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less glamorous because either I don't
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know where the power button is or it's
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actually not charged so let's see what's
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happening here leave this box here see
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it was in a box it is an unofficial
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unboxing in the base there is a charger
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which is a little bit bigger than the
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old charger and comes with let's see
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getting started with the echo and don't
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just double check that the I do I'm
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sorry this is called the action button
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so I guess if it's a really slow night
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and I need some action I push this
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button then it's awkward step one plug
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an echo step to download Alexa step
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three change your cover oh I see so this
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is the naked echo so that's kind of
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interesting right so this is what it
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looks like with a little speaker down
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here and everything dorky I think it's
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gonna look better dressed so let's drop
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it right back into this little cover
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lines up perfectly so that's all nice
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let's see here's ask Alexa all these
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cool things you could do which I would
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do if it turn on so maybe it needs to be
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plugged in no I did not plan far enough
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ahead to have a plug easily accessible
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so I'm gonna
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for a second I'm gonna plug in an
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extension cord don't go anywhere stay
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right there
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I'll be talking of course if you're
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joining this is the worst Amazon why or
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this is the worst Facebook live ever
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there's no one on camera but I'm back so
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let's see we have plugged it in and now
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I shall plug in the Amazon echo second
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generation and why is this happening oh
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no look at the top it's waking up and
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here's the thing is that Amazon
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generally does a really good job of
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having things pre-configured so I'm
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expecting it to just automatically join
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my network I don't expect to do any sort
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of configuration hello your Amazon echo
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is ready for setup just follow the
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instructions in your Alexa app nope so
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here's the downside I can't actually
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configure it because I'm using my phone
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for this for Facebook live so it's ready
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to configure I'll have to go off now and
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I'll configure it and then I'll post
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something about how it works and
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eventually you'll see something on my
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youtube channel which you can find I
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know we're on Facebook but I post tons
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of videos on YouTube at youtube.com
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slash asked Dave Taylor so that's all I
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got that was the unboxing of the Amazon
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echo 2nd generation with it's lovely I
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don't even know what they call this but
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it's a very sort of very mellow very
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professional-looking fabric cover and I
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appreciate you being connected and now
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that I'm done I can go back and I can
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see what everyone typed in and I will
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answer any questions and if you have any
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thumbs up thumbs down smiley faces
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cranky faces whatever
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lay it all out and I appreciate you
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watching
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