3 Call Your Friends and Family
Home phones are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. If you ever needed more proof of that, consider the fact that your Amazon Echo can basically mimic home phone functionality.
If you’ve set up the capability on your iOS device (via the Alexa app) and given Alexa access to your phone’s contacts, you can now make phone calls to most mobile phones and landlines from your iPhone’s number.
And while Alexa-to-mobile SMS texting isn’t available quite yet, it’s pretty likely that Amazon will introduce the feature to its Echo devices sometime in the future.