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Amazon’s Alexa Gets Smarter: AI-Powered Alexa+ Launches in Australia

Amazon has officially launched Alexa+ in Australia, bringing its generative AI-powered virtual assistant to local Echo devices. Moving beyond basic voice triggers, setting kitchen timers, and answering surface-level queries, Alexa+ represents a complete overhaul aimed at making smart home interaction far more natural, intuitive, and action-oriented. Powered by Amazon Bedrock and advanced large language models (LLMs), Alexa+ is designed to behave less like a command-line interface and more like a conversational assistant.  * Natural Conversation & Context Tracking: You no longer need to speak in rigid, robotic phrases. Alexa+ can process mid-sentence pauses, stumbles, and multi-step requests without requiring a repeated wake word for every follow-up question.  * Localised Australian Personality: Tailored specifically for Aussie households, the local engineering and linguistics teams trained Alexa+ to understand Aussie slang, idioms (from "arvo" to "snags...

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Install stock ffu from windows device recovery tool link 


Put the phone in flash mode by holding power off then volume down. Open Windows Phone image designer and the flash stock ffu 


Put phone in aeroplane mode. This will stop it from updating while you prepare to disable system updates


With registry browser go to HKLM ->SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Services

The default value is 3 changing it to 4 will stop updates but the store would not work so we need to change it back to 3 and reboot

Use the deployer app to install an apk file



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