The Huawei Mate 9 was announced as the first non-Amazon device to have Amazon Alexa back at CES. However, it wasn't included when the phone shipped in the US. Huawei only said the feature would be delivered in a later update. Well, now it's later. The Alexa update has started rolling out in the US.

This will make the Mate 9 an interesting device for voice interaction. During the intervening months between Alexa's announcement and release, Google started rolling Assistant out to many phones. The Mate 9 has it, and now it's about to get Alexa too. This makes it the ideal device to try them both side-by-side. Amazon notes that Alexa is great at things like home automation, shopping (duh), and news. Assistant does some of that too.

The update might be starting its rollout today, but it looks to be staged. I haven't seen any OTAs come through on my phone. Give it a day or two.

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