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1 STOP THE SPINNING

If you want to prevent your Echo Show 10 from following you around the room and set it still in a corner, all you need to do is swipe down from the top of the screen and tap on the icon that says ‘Motion’. Your Echo will stay put. If you also want to disable the camera, just drag the manual slider on the top right of the unit and a white, opaque material will shield its all-seeing eye.

2 BRING THE BINGE

It’s no surprise that the Echo Show 10 can access Amazon Prime Video, with booming sound to boot, but did you know it’ll support Netflix too? And the Netflix experience is easier to navigate with the touchscreen than Prime Video. Rather than an awkward voice-optimised menu (sort it out, Amazon), Netflix uses a carbon copy of its touch-optimised smartphone app interface.

3 SPIN THE WEB

Firefox is no longer available on Amazon devices, but you can still access Amazon’s Silk web browser. Just ask your Echo to “open Silk” and a URL bar will pop up on screen. Whether you want to watch iplayer or scan Twitter, the browser saves your login details, streams video and is responsive to touch. While the Echo Show definitely isn’t a laptop or tablet replacement just yet, this is a welcome tool.

4 SPY ON YOURSELF

The Echo Show 10’s rotation means it can moonlight as an object-tracking, sound-sensing security camera. It only rotates left and right, but this means you can check in on your home wherever you are with the Alexa app. Activating it is easy: just jump into the settings and fire up Home Monitoring. Launch the camera in your Alexa app, accept a couple of permissions and you’re done.

5 WALK AND TALK

Like all Echo Shows, the 10 can make and receive video calls, but this one will even follow you while you walk and talk so you’re always in frame. In order to make calls, recipients need to be verified contacts. Once set up, video calls can be initiated with a voice command and are super-easy to accept with an on-screen Answer button. This makes the Show 10 an excellent option for families.

6 DON’T CONFUSE IT

Fire up an episode of Dynasty or Schitt’s Creek and, whether it’s Alexis Carrington or Alexis Rose, when someone says their name your Show 10 will tailspin like an excited dog. To change ‘Alexa’ to something different, fire up the Alexa app, find your device, choose Wake Word and pick between ‘Amazon’ and ‘Echo’. You can also switch Wake Words under device options in the unit’s own settings.