You guys are the first I read liking this phone
Personally I think it looks like a phone from 2013 with its enormous top and bottom bezels.
Yeah it's got a "me, too" look about it. I'm personally more drawn to the looks of the Mate 9. But I think performance and features take priority.
I am interested in the possibility of running Alexa on a phone.
I just went through the following struggle with Siri. I just wanted to know what the weather for tomorrow would be. "Hey Siri, what's the weather tomorrow?" I spoke in clear unaccented English that would do a newscaster proud.
I ask this of Alexa all the time with no problems. Siri used to be helpful too. Now she's hard of hearing and senile.
She finally got me on the third try after I shouted my request.
The funny thing is she answered the same question just fine a few days ago while in a folio case with the lid closed and the mic facing outward in my front pocket.
I don't know if the mic on the iPhone 7s are muffled due to waterproofing. My dad complains he can't hear me when I call him on my iPhone 7. He says I sound like I'm muffled. I have to call him on my S7 or HTC 10 so he won't spend half the conversation complaining like the curmudgeon he is.
I'm just grateful I've got two phone lines and can use either iPhone or Android according to my needs. Someday I would like to go back to one phone, but for now the experiments continue because no one manufacturer gives me everything I really want in one package. Maybe they never will.