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

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The handset works with BT’s Digital Voice home phone service which can be connected to their Smart Hub 2 router. Digital Voice forms part of BT’s plan to run all landline calls over broadband by 2025.

The Alexa feature can only be used on one BT Advanced Digital Home Phone at a time. If you have other BT Advanced Digital Home Phones with Alexa built-in, you will see a blue circle at the top of the display to show at a glance that someone is already using the Alexa feature 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. 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 will be available for free to customers who take out BT’s Broadband and Digital Voice services starting from Wednesday 10th Feb. 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.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. BT’s Digital Voice service is powered via broadband and if the internet goes down, you won't be able to use your phone or Alexa features. Please make sure that you have another way to call for help in an emergency.

Choose whether you want to change the ringtone of an internal or external call and scroll to that option. 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? 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?”. 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. GHz status: Off Ethernet: 23 Wireless 2.4 GHZ: 0 5 GHz: 0 USB: 0 Wizards FAQs User guide Status: On Brightness: 100% Schedule: OffDoes the Alexa service come with a caller ID? Is the caller ID displayed or does it announce caller name? HD calling means incredible sound quality on your home phone – almost as if the person you’re speaking to is in the room with you. 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. 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.” 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.

However, while Alexa is able to connect to smart devices around the house, it is not a surveillance tool, and its implementation into BT's Advanced Digital Home Phone is entirely at the user's discretion. 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. We've just been moved from Fibre Voice Access (FVA) to Digital Voice. The move went very smoothly. On the switch over day, I disconnected the phone cable from the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) and reconnected it to the Smart Hub 2.The Advanced Digital Home Phone with Alexa built-in offers Digital Voice customers great features with crystal clear HD calling 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.

Yes. Your phone is set to ring at volume 3 by default but you can change that and the ringtone it plays. Alexa is the main draw here, but BT has also detailed other features that will be present in the Advanced Digital Home Phone.If you didn't choose to set up Alexa when you set up your new handset for the first time, press the Alexa button and follow the on-screen steps. You’ll need a device with internet access like a smartphone or tablet to set up Alexa.