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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by hammock on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:38AM (#11253533)
She can initiate the call from anywhere, and based on the description given she still needs to go over to and pick up her phone to complete the interaction.

I agree the ability to add arbitrary commands into Echo is a great feature, reminds me of ifttt quite a bit, which is usually a bit clunky yet very powerful.

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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by sisk on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:49AM (#11253611)
Yeah, that's one quirk I wish didn't exist. If I could make the Echo work as a speakerphone of sorts, that'd be amazing. That's one of my two asks (ability to get access to the microphone), the other being server-side interaction initiation but I recognize the massive potential for abuse of both so I'm not holding my breath.
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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by JasonInSeattle on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @08:20PM (#11256856)
Do we even know if grandma has a smartphone?
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