https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/27/16374862/amazon-echo-connect-speakerphone >Amazon’s Echo products have always been good at voice-related functions except for one key voice-related function: making phone calls. Now there’s a new solution for that. >At a hardware event today on its new Seattle campus today, Amazon announced the Echo Connect, a $35 speaker-phone device that plugs into the wall and lets US customers make phone calls through their Echo speakers. The call is tied to the owner’s phone number so receivers will still know who’s calling them — making this new Echo like a more like landline speaker.