Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The Bad: News: It can read news from the channels you select and reads them sequentially, but it can't just answer simple news questions like "tell me the top news in technology" or "tell me top news from Japan" it just is programmed to listen the conmand "news" and just spill out all crap at once. Let's say you were listening to flash breifing and you had to pause it after listening half of it because you got a call or you had someone at the door and now you want to resume the news from where it paused but no, you will have to listen too all the news again! Music: Every time I want it to play some songs on prime, it generally plays sample music. But it works great with Spotify. The only use I have of this expensive device is to "play music from Spotify" General stuff: Some users have mentioned that it's acting like a companion for them. One of the top ones even posted a picture sleeping with it but I think that's only a marketing campaign. It's not true. If a fan or heater is on making a hush sound Alexa goes deaf! You have to literally yell "Alexa play Coldplay on Spotify" for it to hear you. Alexa is worse for general conversations like some claiming it to be their companion - absolute crap. Most of the times it is confused and you'd hear "I don't understand the question I heard" or "can't find answer to question I heard". It can't answer simple questions like "how do airplanes fly". See screenshot from Alexa app attached on what it heard and that it heard me correctly but can't find answer to it or a logical answer to say no to my request but just a plain "can't". The device is supposed to entertain you with random questions with logical answers but all I hear most of the times is "can't" Alarms: I like to put fan on when I sleep and in mornings when I wake up to Alexa's alarm sound it can't hear me to stop the alarm coz the fan is on and then either I have to yell at her and get my day started with it or literally wake up and press that button on it for it to hear it. Alexa sits by the door of my bedroom so that I can talk to this device from bedroom or living room most of the times. Had it been only worth $20 I would not have complained much about it. It's just way expensive for what it's worth. The Good: can read news for you, play music on prime or Spotify, set timer, alarm and that's it. Can tell "some" things that can come handy to you like arithmetic or some well known stuff on Wikipedia.