BT Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa Built-In Works Only With BT Smart Hub 2

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Then use the right and left navigation buttons to choose a tone that you like and scroll down to Volume and choose whether to increase or decrease it. BT today unveiled the new Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in, which will be available free to customers taking BT’s Broadband and Digital Voice service, offering crystal-clear HD calling. To try out Alexa, press the Alexa button, wait for the Alexa listening screen and ask a question such as “How’s the weather today?”. You can only have one active Alexa session at a time. Playing music would be the single active Alexa session. The second handset would not respond to the Alexa button press and it will show a blue circle next to it to show Alexa is active on the other handset. The second handset will be able to make calls using BT as usual.

The Advanced Digital Home Phone is also compatible with other Alexa-enabled smart devices around the home. This means that the handset could possibly act as a hub for all your Alexa related needs.The digital home phone also comes with a large colour screen, outstanding battery life and works with BT’s Digital Voice service to provide crystal-clear HD calling, Call Diversion, Multi Call and Call Protect We currently have a BT Premium Phone. I see that BT is offering a free BT Digital Voice Adapter or a BT Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in.

No, the BT Advanced Home Phone with Alexa built-in, uses push to talk functionality, so you need to press the button to answer a call. BT touts the handset as having “crystal-clear” HD calling. Good call quality is always welcome, particularly for elderly folks who may have trouble hearing, or for those who usually have to deal with poor connections. The product uses DECT Technology, therefore, each handset has a range of up to 50m indoors/300m outdoors from the base station (in ideal conditions).The Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in is a real game-changer for your home. Available only on Digital Voice our new home phone service. Giving you a future-ready connection at home that makes keeping in touch with loved ones even better. BT’s new Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in combines ease-of-use with the convenience and great range of features that Alexa provides The new Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in features a 2,0-inch colour screen and other accessibility features including ringer volume boost and large text as well as a hands-free speaker.

When using Alexa on your BT Advanced Digital Home Phone handset, you'll need to use a Voice command. You can either ask Alexa to call someone by name or ask Alexa to dial a specific phone number (e.g. Call Mum, or call "020 1234567").The new phone is another step towards BT’s existing plan of having all of its landline calls run through broadband by 2025. The handsets achieve this by connecting to a user’s BT Smart Hub 2, which in turn allows Alexa to operate. What other features does BT’s new phone have? Can I listen to Alexa music from one handset and use another Alexa built-in handset to make calls using Alexa? No, you should not use the Alexa service for dialling the emergency services and if there is a power cut or a problem with your Broadband please make sure that you have another way to call for help in an emergency. The Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in offers Digital Voice customers great features with crystal clear HD calling. To use these handsets you'll need to have moved over to the BT Digital voice phone service or they won't work. During these extraordinary times, a phone call from a friend or family member can make your day, and with our Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in, customers can enjoy clearer calls – as well as the convenience and great range of features that Alexa provides.”