The Amazon Echo Show 15 is currently the largest smart display on the market. 15-inch on the diagonal, it is a huge device with a lot of functionality at the border. Eco Show 15 can do whatever you want from other Alexa Smart Displays, including controlling your smart home, answering questions, playing games and more.
But the features don’t stop there. The Echo Show 15 has a number of lesser-known, almost hidden features that make it more effective than it may seem at first glance.
Echo Show 15 can work in either portrait or landscape mode
The Eco Show 15 is great for viewing huge amounts of screen real estate content, participating in video calls or browsing recipes. If you plan to use it as a kitchen-specific device, it may be a better choice than landscape mode mounted in portrait mode. You’ll be able to see more recipes at once and look at the next steps without scrolling – and this avoids the problem of touching your screen with potentially messy hands.
If you plan to watch a lot of content or use Echo Show 15 to take part in a video call, landscape mode is a good choice. In landscape mode, it fits most streamed content with the expected 16: 9 ratio.
Eco Show 15 can give you a peek into your home
The built-in 1080p camera in the Echo Show 15 does not serve as a security camera, at least not in the traditional sense. You can’t use it to monitor for speed or alert you about activity in your home, but you can drop by the Alexa app to see what’s happening in front of the device.
A message appears on the screen when someone is watching through the camera, so no one will be able to check in without your knowledge. While a full-featured security camera would be a great addition to a smart display, the ability to check into your home all day is still a nice feature.
Echo Show can use 15 widgets
The best advantage is to divide the large screen into subdivisions based on usage. Currently, there aren’t a ton of widget options available, but Amazon hopes to add more in the future (and maybe even allow custom widgets, I hope.) That being said, the widgets that exist are great for organizing.
Echo Show 15 can showcase your shopping list, your favorite smart home device, your schedule, music suggestions, distribution, photos and videos, and more. You can access all this information with one tap If you use a display in your office, to-do lists and calendar onscreen can help you stay organized.
Echo Show 15 supports picture-in-picture
One of the best features of the Echo Show 15 is its ability to see your security camera. If someone rings your doorbell, you can ask Alexa to show you the front door. You can keep an eye on the newborn while cooking dinner in the kitchen. But what makes this feature even better is that you can use pictures in pictures
You can create the show of your choice and pop up your doorbell feed in a small window. The baby monitor can be a part of the screen while taking the rest of your dinner recipe. This is another feature that leans heavily on the 15-inch screen.
The Echo Show 15 can act as a karaoke machine
Ever felt the need for an immediate night of bad singing? Maybe you are a talented vocalist and only my friends are victims of off-key crooning. In either case, the Eco Show 15 makes a nice karaoke machine.
All you have to do is say, “Alexa, play [song] By [artist]And the music will appear on-screen. Tap the lyrics icon to see the words and then you and all your friends can follow
Echo Show 15 can recognize you by visual ID
If your Echo Show 15 is a family device, it can be a bit difficult to use a single profile and keep everyone’s calendar, shopping list and to-do list organized. Creating individual profiles and assigning a visual ID to each, Echo Show 15 will display personalized content based on who is currently viewing the device.
Each profile can have different levels of access and permission. Echo Show 15 stores profiles and facial IDs on devices, not in the cloud. This makes the feature more secure and eliminates any worries about your personal information If you ever want to disable the feature, slide the privacy shutter off the camera.
The Echo Show 15 has earned a place as one of the 15 best smart displays on the market and, of course, the biggest, it offers features that you can expect from an Echo Display, as well as many things you can’t expect.
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