I bought an Amazon Echo Dot on Black Friday as an experiment. I'm now this close from going all-in on an Alexa-based smart home. An Echo Show for the Kitchen, a few Dots for the kids' rooms and office, and maybe that lovely C lamp for the bedroom. It won't be cheap which is why I've been reluctant to commit. But now I have to rethink things after yesterday's announcement of the HTC U11 — the first smartphone with hands-free support for Alexa.
See, HTC's new U11 responds to "Alexa" in the same way it wakes the Google Assistant with "Okay Google." Having grown accustomed to Alexa over the last few months, I can definitely see the value of a smartphone with instant access to it baked right in. Hell, it could even obviate the need for a...
