Amazon's Alexa compatible microwave oven was still "boiled": Product Review

After launching Amazon's new Alexa compatible microwave oven "Amazonbasics MicroWave", the first thing I noticed was that the word "Fail" was displayed in the display.

It's just right after the Wi-Fi connection procedure.Surprisingly, the letters were being displayed for a long time while continuing to test.

AmazonBASICS MICROWAVE is a home appliance product with a 700 watts of output and a volume of 0.7 cubic feet (about 20 liters).The price is only $ 60 (about 6,800 yen), and by connecting to the Amazon device such as "Amazon Echo", various functions of the microwave oven can be controlled by voice.

For example, if you say "Alexa, 30 seconds heated (MicroWave 30 Seconds)", the microwave oven will operate with high output.Speaking of "Alexa, 10 -ounce (about 300g) fish," will start heating at an appropriate temperature.

Many functions are very similar to the microwave oven "Smart Countertop MicroWave" with the new "Scan-to-Cook" technology of Ge Appliancees.However, GE's microwave oven has a function that can give a cooking instruction to the microwave oven by scanning the barcode for thousands of microwave foods.

Although it sounds smart, I personally couldn't find the added value of Scan-To-Cook technology.However, I was interested and curious about Amazon's first kitchen home appliances.

The microwave oven of this "Amazon Basic" brand is also attracting attention in that it is a new product that uses "Alexa Connect Kit (ACK)" technology.ACK offers both the necessary hardware and cloud services so that third -party manufacturers can make equipment a smart device.

If you usually receive a product to be reviewed, you will want to try it as soon as possible.However, there were both physical and connection issues regarding the microwave oven, and things were not smooth from the beginning.

For some reason, the rotating platform that does not fit

The first is a physical problem.Like many microwave ovens, this Amazon product also comes with a glass tray.And at the bottom of this tray has three protrusions that mesh with the shaft of the turntable.As a result, frozen foods are thawed while rotating.

But strangely, the shaft of the rotors stands only at the very high level of rotating the tray.At the time of the test, the tray shifted from the original position several times.This has never happened in other microwave ovens.

With the permission of the engineer, I tried using a slightly taller shaft that was attached to my microwave oven (700 watt GE microwave oven that does not connect to Wi-Fi) in the Amazon microwave oven.Is getting better.After this problem was revealed, Amazon sent a second microwave, but the shaft on the rotors was the same as the first one.

Communication connection and buttons problems are one after another ...

There was also a serious problem with the connection.This is a major concern, given that the official shipment date of the microwave oven was two days after receiving the test product.