You Can Now Use Amazon's Alexa On The Fire HD 8 Tablet

The Amazon Echo doesn't have a screen, but because the Fire HD 8 tablet does it can show relevant information upon receiving a query. Ask Alexa to play a song on Spotify, for example, and options to pause, skip forward or skip back present themselves. Ask it for the scores from yesterday's game and it will give you a detailed scorecard. Using an actual Echo device under the same Amazon account will still invoke the appearances of info cards on your tablet devices using the new update. Amazon's update comes at a time when Google is anxious to take over the virtual assistant space.