I have been trying to decide if I want to get the Invoke on its Black Friday deal. It sounds like it’s a pretty nice device and it even sounds pretty functional given the limited MS ecosystem.
I’m a realist when it comes to MS and their consumer products: I know that Mobile has been dead for a long while now, obviously Groove is the walking dead, the band/band2, while great was never given a chance. I don’t really trust MS with consumer technology and yet I still am curious about the Invoke and considering getting one. Am I crazy?
Talk me into or out of it…
seapea
<p>I am in the same boat, made more complicated that i already own 2 echo dots. I'm thinking of getting an Invoke (i do use msoutlook calendar) and moving one of my echo's to the car. Decision made more complicated by Amazon having their 'Plus' version with a smart light bulb on sale for $150. </p><p>Wish I knew more on how the MSFT and Amazon integration deal was coming along.</p>
seapea
<blockquote><a href="#219140"><em>In reply to JimP:</em></a></blockquote><p>Invoke is not a MSFT product. It is by Harmon Kardmon owned by Samsung.</p>
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seapea
<blockquote><a href="#221400"><em>In reply to JimP:</em></a></blockquote><p>How are you controlling your Invoke – adding skills, getting it to use your tuneIn account, etc?</p><p>Amazon has a way to view and control via web browser on any device in the same LAN, I am not seeing anything like that for the Invoke.</p>
seapea
<p>My Invoke arrived after a delay of a couple of days in Portland Oregon for reasons unknown.</p><p>I just got it set up. The process was painful. You need Cortana to set it up, true. But you also need another app to do the actual setup. This app did not work on my W10 Phone. So had to install it on my MotoX. </p><p>At first attempt, the Invoke did not see my wireless router. 2nd try from the top it did. Got it signed in and the app suggests trying it out. Thing is , the app is running within Cortana and the Invoke only responds to "Hey Cortana". so when trying the suggestions the phone's Cortana kept on picking it up. Extremely frustrating and annoying.</p><p>Setup options are minimal. basically you can only choose a music service from a severely limited selection. And there is no way that I could find of seeing what 'skills' were available or install-able. </p><p><br></p><p>So, the bad is that the software to install and control is awful. Many times the Cortana voice is garbled when responding</p><p><br></p><p>The good , yes there is good, is that the Invoke does look nice and the sound from Tune-In is very good The volume control is very granular (1-99) and can get quite loud (i think my table shook when it was set to 75).</p><p><br></p><p>I am thus far disappointed. When I get my first Amazon Echo i was amazed at how easy it was to setup and get going with useful skills via the software. The HK people and MSFT seemed to not have inspected how Amazon does the software and presentation of skills. To answer the OP – I would not suggest to Invoke, go with the Amazon at the same price point.</p><p><br></p><p>Hopefully the Invoke will get its software and skills acts together real soon. Else the MSFT SmartSpeakers category will be kaput before it even starts. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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seapea
<blockquote><a href="#225179"><em>In reply to ghostrider:</em></a></blockquote><p>It is up to Samsung/HarmanKardman to market and support the Invoke.</p><p>and like Google has such a great history of supporting its hardware.</p>