Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in
again. What I have here today is an
Amazon Fire HD tablet. Now this is the 8
inch tablet here, but this video works
with the 10 inch as well. What I'm going
to show you is how to turn this device
into an Amazon Echo Show, so I'm going to
show you a couple of settings that you
need to turn on, a couple things that
you're going to need, and then you're
able to use this as an Echo Show. Now
what does that mean? I'm also going to
show you some of the base functionality
of an Echo Show versus just an Echo or
the fire HD with Alexa on board, so let's
get going. On a previous video, I showed
you how to get Alexa on your fire tablet.
That was capable on 4th, 5th, 6th, or 7th
generation Fire tablets. What we're going
to talk about today though is Show Mode,
and what you will require is OS version
5.6.2.0 or higher, and
for Show Mode you will require the
seventh generation Fire HD tablet. Now
this can be either the HD 8, or the HD 10,
it doesn't matter, and then I will show
you later how to ensure that you get
this mode working, you don't need the
Show Mode charging dock that Amazon does
sell. It's not a bad idea, I'm just saying
you don't need it. One piece to let you
know about, I'm actually in Canada, and so
if you've imported one of these, what you
can do is sign up for an Amazon account
in the US, use a USA address, and
obviously that's not going to allow you
to sign up for some of their paid
services, but this will get you show mode
working, so that's a workaround for those
of you not in the US, you know. First up,
let me just show you with Alexa onboard
you can see there's an Alexa hands-free
setting that you can just turn on once
you're at 5.6.1.0 or
greater on your Fire HD tablet. Once
you've done, that you're going to be able
to ask any of your regular questions.
It's essentially another Amazon
Echo. Watch Peppa Pig. Now switching
over to Show Mode, let me show you how
you get that on the device. First thing's
first, you will need it plugged in, then
turn it on, or make sure that it's on and
pull down the menu from the top. Now what
you'll see is a little slider at the
bottom that says Show Mode on it. Now
this all you have to do, is tap on it, and
it instantly starts show mode.
Now you'll notice the screen was still
locked and it switched over to this, and
it's basically a running set of items
that you can ask or that you're prompted
to ask your Fire HD tablet. What's the
weather like?
In East Anne, it's 68 degrees Fahrenheit
with clear skies and Sun tonight, you can
look for mostly clear skies with a low
of 52 degrees. Even after the HD tablet
is done telling you about the weather, it
does sit there and run through your next
week of weather in your location.
How many tablespoons in a cup? You can
see the visual component that you get to
this, it's just an image from Wikipedia,
but it is a little addition that helps
you visualize what's going on. Who is Scarlett
Johanssen?
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson is an American
actress and singer. Now again we had a
picture come in from Wikipedia, you could
see the detail come in from the Fire HD
tablet. Tell me a joke.
What did one cupcake say to the other? You
ain't seen muffin yet. After all that,
like I said earlier in the video, you can
see that the device literally sits there
and runs through different things that
you can ask, and it's showing you the
latest news or videos or even audio
clips that you can ask it about. If you
do use the Alexa messaging service and
the contacts, if you have those uploaded
in the application, you can get those to
show up here, and then you can use the
visual capability to actually choose
your contact as well. So I think that's a
pretty good run through, obviously I'm
not covering everything that an Echo
Show is capable of, but here you have it,
you can get this done with your Fire HD
tablet.