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Amazon Alexa is more omnipresent than ever and is now available in around 50 countries worldwide, and in a large amount of languages.
After being initially supported by the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Japan and Germany, Alexa can now work in much less obvious places, from Saudi Arabia to Lithuania and abundance in the middle.
But it is not as simple as just logging into your Amazon account and asking for an echo point or an intelligent Amazon speaker echo echo.
Next, we will explain how to obtain Alexa if he lives internationally, what characteristics will he have access and some potential solutions if he has problems.
How to buy an international echo device
The first thing you will need if you want Alexa is, Duh, a device enabled for Alexa. If you live in the United States or Europe, there are many of them to choose from, but it is not the same story if you live, for example, South America or parts of Africa.
His options are a bit more limited; You can only buy specific international versions of several Echo smart speakers.
The good news is that it used to be echo speakers of older genes and echo points that came in international flavors, but that is no longer the case.
If you go to the Amazon Us store, for example, you can choose international versions of the last echo of 4th gen, endow 5th gen, The Echo Pop, the new echo show 5 or the echo show 8 of the previous generation (2nd).
In addition to Amazon US, Amazon UK or Amazon also has these international versions for sale.
We will reach the functionality of these international versions below, but there are also a couple of other factors to consider.
Energy sources vary according to the product, and there are natural requirements with respect to voltage, power, frequency and multiple switching support. And the same is true for Wi-Fi, although if you are starting a session to buy an Echo device, we hope it covers it.
Since it will be ordering the United States, the United Kingdom or Germany (in general, those in Europe will have to order from Amazon of, and all the others of Amazon US), also make sure to be careful with customs tariffs and import taxes.
Fortunately, if you live in a territory that is part of Amazon’s global program, these are estimated and collected as a deposit in your payment. But, if not, he will be responsible for paying any fee after delivery.
Compatible characteristics
Maybe before I buy one, he will want to know exactly what an international version of the Echo is capable. As we mentioned above, it is not simply granted the same functionality as those of the United States or the United Kingdom.
These are the characteristics that the Amazon Flat-Out states are not available through the international version of the Echo: purchases, local traffic and business search, selected skills of the Alexa’s skill store, specific news and information of the location, Audible, Spotify, Iheartradio, Pandora and Siriusxm.
Meanwhile, there is another band of features which is what Amazon describes as “generally compatible.” Therefore, there are no guarantees, but it should be able to receive functionality for Tunein, Amazon Music Unlimited (in its 35 compatible countries), intelligent home, timers, calendars, alarms, news, shopping lists and the weather.
The good news is that Amazon’s lists for international devices give it a breakdown country by country of the compatible characteristics, which is useful.
However, complications unfortunately do not end there. If you want to configure Smart Home routines and other advanced functions, it will do so through the Alexa application on your smartphone. The problem? Access to the Alexa application is very limited. You can verify the availability in your local application store, but you may have to go to Alexa.amazon.com (or explore the solution below).
Again, the Amazon products list will tell you if the application is available on iPhone or Android in your country.
Ah, and we must also mention that, although Alexa can now speak English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish; Only English, German and Spanish are available in the international version, although it can still adjust Alexa’s accent.
What happens if my country is not compatible?
Of course, a solution is simply waiting for your country to obtain full support: Amazon is rapidly expanding the range of Alexa, after all.
But if you are impatient, or you are here because Alexa is not playing the ball correctly in your country, there are a couple of things to try. If you are finding restrictions on the download of the Amazon Alexa application because it lives, for example, South Africa or Israel, you will have to experiment with the change of its location.
If you are in iOS, that means changing your billing information through your Apple ID (even if you take into account that there are complications in progress if you have subscriptions, such as Apple Music). It is a similar process if you are on Android.
This will play with its meteorological and similar services, although you can also change the location of the device within the web version of the Alexa application. Just go to Settings> your device> general and edit the time zone and direction.
What countries do Alexa work?
Officially, Alexa is supported by the following countries:
- Porcelain
- India
- USA
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Brazil
- Nigeria
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Mexico
- Japan
- Ethiopia
- Philippines
- Egypt
- Vietnam
- Dr. Congo
- Turkey
- Iran
- Germany
- Thailand
- United Kingdom
- France
- Italy
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Myanmar
- Kenya
- South Korea
- Colombia
- Spain
- Uganda
- Argentina
- Algeria
- Sudan
- Ukraine
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Poland
- Canada
- Morocco
- Saudi Arabia
- Peru
- Uzbekistan
- Malaysia
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Ghana
- Mozambique
- Nepal
- Angola
