Amazon have launched the mobile calling integration and home intercom functions in the UK today with the latest version of the App.
As the echos and dots are shared around the house, I will need to work on creating profiles for the girls so they don’t receive my phone call on their bedroom dots, and likewise, once they are set up I am not bombarded with their calls and messages. As I am on cable, and don’t need a phone line, this almost certainly sounds the death knell for the land line.
However the most useful feature I am sure is the slightly spooky in a privacy sense, Drop In mode. You can “Drop In on The Study” and create an almost instant connection with that room, and bellow at the kids that their tea is ready, or come and lay the table…. but they will need to make sure they know how to “hang up” a drop in connection if they don’t want Dad listening to them babble away any more than he needs to.