How To Register Your Fire 7 With Alexa

(Pocket-lint) - Amazon lets you lot use Alexa to place calls and transport messages on a Burn down tablet, eliminating the demand for an Repeat device to talk to friends and family via Alexa. And so, if you ain a Fire tablet you have a cheap and easy way to keep in touch with loved ones without having to buy a smart display such as an Repeat Show.

It'southward surprisingly unproblematic, thanks to Alexa Calling.

What do y'all need to video call?

Fire tablet (fourth generation and later on) with Alexa app
Or any mobile device with Alexa app installed
Or an Echo Bear witness 10, Prove 8, or Show 5

Rather than get out and buy an Alexa smart display such equally Echo Show, yous can apply the Alexa app on your Amazon Fire tablet, or download the Alexa app on your Android tablet or iPad.

Your mobile device, with its glorious HD touchscreen, tin then human activity as a smart display. In fact, Amazon really wants you to think of your Fire tablet as a slimmed-down Echo Prove capable of video calling.

Whomever yous're calling besides needs a device running the Alexa app. They could fifty-fifty have an Echo Prove, to have video calls, while an Echo, Repeat Dot, or Echo Plus can accept sound-only calls - or just a mobile device with the Alexa app also.

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Set up video calling on a Fire tablet or mobile device.

Open the Alexa app on your Burn down tablet (or mobile device). Tap the Communicate/Communication tab in the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen. If you haven't already enabled it, the Alexa app will ask permission to admission your contacts and annals your phone number. (That's for caller ID; if you lot opt-out, your calls volition show upward as "Unknown" to friends.)

You'll might need to confirm your name and verify your phone number through SMS.

Alexa tin can apply your phone'southward address book to detect people you know who have the Alexa app with Alexa Calling enabled. Once you finish, y'all'll exist able to call and message your friends and family who have Echo devices, Fire tablets, or the Alexa app. You lot can even telephone call almost landline and mobile numbers not in your contacts by speaking the number ("Alexa, phone call 1-two-3-4-v-vi-seven-8-9-0").

Amazon said yous can call in any country that supports Alexa-to-Alexa calling.

Identify a video phone call using a Fire tablet

Open up the Alexa app on your phone or Fire tablet
Select Communicate from the bottom navigation bar
Select the Call button at the elevation
Select the contact you want to reach
Select their number or the Alexa sound call or video call buttons

To kickoff a video call from a uniform Burn down tablet or mobile device, just open the Alexa app, and so select the Communicate/Communication tab and discover your contact, and tap the video telephone call icon. That's it. Of course, to stop a video phone call, just select the Terminate button on-screen.

If you've e'er felt the need to ping a Fire tablet owner without their permission, in the moment, you can do that, also. Fire HD viii and Burn down HD 10 owners can receive Drop In video calls from Alexa devices with displays and cameras, similar Echo Show and Repeat Spot. This is a easily-free mode to connect to Alexa devices instantly, without having to wait for the person on the other finish to answer.

It's a feature that has to be enabled from Settings (Alexa > Easily-Free Style), and then you can specify which contacts can use it.

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Want to know more?

Amazon'southward "Alexa-to-Alexa calling and messaging" is a free feature first introduced on the Echo Prove. Merely Amazon wanted to extend this functionality to other devices, so information technology adult what we now phone call "Alexa calling" or "Alexa calling and messaging". Information technology works with compatible Echo devices and the Alexa app and Amazon's Burn tablets. Here'southward everything you lot demand to know about it.

Note: If you apply a conversation app like Facebook Messenger, yous could skip this entire procedure and video-call people using that app if they use information technology too.

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Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Chris Hall.