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(Pocket-lint) - Amazon lets you lot apply Alexa to place calls and ship messages on a Fire tablet, eliminating the need for an Repeat device to talk to friends and family via Alexa. So, if y'all own a Burn down tablet you accept a cheap and like shooting fish in a barrel fashion to go on in touch with loved ones without having to buy a smart brandish such as an Echo Evidence.

It'southward surprisingly simple, thank you to Alexa Calling.

What exercise you need to video call?

Burn tablet (quaternary generation and later) with Alexa app
Or whatever mobile device with Alexa app installed
Or an Echo Show 10, Testify viii, or Show v

Rather than become out and buy an Alexa smart display such equally Echo Show, you tin use 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, can then human action every bit a smart display. In fact, Amazon actually wants you to retrieve of your Fire tablet as a slimmed-down Echo Testify capable of video calling.

Whomever you lot're calling as well needs a device running the Alexa app. They could even have an Echo Prove, to accept video calls, while an Repeat, Echo Dot, or Echo Plus can accept audio-only calls - or simply a mobile device with the Alexa app likewise.

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

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

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

Alexa can employ your phone'south address volume to find people you know who have the Alexa app with Alexa Calling enabled. One time you finish, you'll be able to telephone call and message your friends and family who have Repeat devices, Fire tablets, or the Alexa app. You can fifty-fifty call most landline and mobile numbers non in your contacts past speaking the number ("Alexa, call one-2-3-4-5-6-seven-viii-9-0").

Amazon said you tin can call in whatever country that supports Alexa-to-Alexa calling.

Place a video phone call using a Fire tablet

Open the Alexa app on your phone or Fire tablet
Select Communicate from the bottom navigation bar
Select the Telephone call push button at the top
Select the contact yous want to achieve
Select their number or the Alexa sound call or video call buttons

To start a video call from a compatible Burn down tablet or mobile device, simply open the Alexa app, then select the Communicate/Communication tab and notice your contact, and tap the video call icon. That's information technology. Of course, to end a video telephone call, just select the Terminate button on-screen.

If you've ever felt the need to ping a Fire tablet owner without their permission, in the moment, you can do that, likewise. Burn down Hard disk 8 and Burn down HD 10 owners tin receive Drop In video calls from Alexa devices with displays and cameras, similar Echo Show and Echo Spot. This is a hands-free way to connect to Alexa devices instantly, without having to wait for the person on the other stop to answer.

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

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Amazon'south "Alexa-to-Alexa calling and messaging" is a complimentary feature first introduced on the Echo Show. But Amazon wanted to extend this functionality to other devices, so it developed what we now call "Alexa calling" or "Alexa calling and messaging". It works with compatible Repeat devices and the Alexa app and Amazon's Fire tablets. Here'south everything you need to know about it.

Annotation: If you lot use a chat app like Facebook Messenger, yous could skip this entire process and video-call people using that app if they use it too.

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